RETRACTED ARTICLE: Organic carbon isotope record since the Late Glacial period from peat in the North Bank of the Yangtze River, China

Abstract

Detailed organic carbon isotope (δ 13 C org) measurements were conducted on two peat sequences recovered from the north bank of the Yangtze River, East China. Seven radiocarbon dates provided firm age control of this δ 13 C org record and reveal palaeoclimatic changes since the Late Glacial period. The results show that the Holocene Megathermal Maximum occurred between 8385 and 7040 cal. yr BP. The Late Glacial climate was generally cold but fluctuated frequently between 12940 and 11815 cal. yr BP. The Older Dryas (from 12940 to 12810 cal. yr BP) and the Younger Dryas (from 12645 to 12170 cal. yr BP) were characterised by cold climate conditions. In contrast, 12810 to 12645 cal. yr BP (corresponding to the Allerød Warm Period) and 12170 to 11815 cal. yr BP (corresponding to a rapid warming period after the Younger Dryas, marking the beginning of the Holocene) were relatively warm phases. In contrast to other high-resolution records, it shows that the δ 13 C org records of our study peats are largely controlled by a common forcing mechanism of solar insolation changes in the Northern Hemisphere, and exhibit similar variability to δ 18 O records obtained from stalagmites and GISP2 during the Late Glacial and early-mid Holocene.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Guest editorial of the special issue “remote sensing in water management and hydrology”

“…The thirty-first article is entitled "Organic Carbon Isotope Record since the Late Glacial Period from Peat in the North Bank of the Yangtze River, China," and it is co-authored by Zhou et al (2020) The authors carefully measure detailed organic carbon isotope (δ 13Corg) across north bank of the Yangtze river. The article entitled "HYSPLIT-based Demarcation of Regions Affected by Water Vapors from South China Sea and Bay of Bengal," co-authored by Hao et al (2020), explores the relationship between atmospheric precipitation and water vapor sources.…”