Seasonal Variations in Triple Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Precipitation in the Western and Central United States
Triple oxygen isotope ratios (∆′17O) offer new opportunities to improve reconstructions of past climate by quantifying evaporation, relative humidity, and diagenesis in geologic archives. However, the utility of ∆′17O in paleoclimate applications is hampered by a limited understanding of how precipi...
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Triple oxygen isotope ratios (∆′17O) offer new opportunities to improve reconstructions of past climate by quantifying evaporation, relative humidity, and diagenesis in geologic archives. However, the utility of ∆′17O in paleoclimate applications is hampered by a limited understanding of how precipitation ∆′17O values vary across time and space. To improve applications of ∆′17O, we present δ18O, d-excess, and ∆′17O data from 26 precipitation sites in the western and central United States and three streams from the Willamette River Basin in western Oregon. In this data set, we find that precipitation ∆′17O tracks evaporation but appears insensitive to many controls that govern variation in δ18O, including Rayleigh distillation, elevation, latitude, longitude, and local precipitation amount. Seasonality has a large effect on ∆′17O variation in the data set and we observe higher seasonally amount-weighted average precipitation ∆′17O values in the winter (40 ± 15 per meg [± standard deviation]) than in the summer (18 ± 18 per meg). This seasonal precipitation ∆′17O variability likely arises from a combination of sub-cloud evaporation, atmospheric mixing, moisture recycling, sublimation, and/or relative humidity, but the data set is not well suited to quantitatively assess isotopic variability associated with each of these processes. The seasonal ∆′17O pattern, which is absent in d-excess and opposite in sign from δ18O, appears in other data sets globally; it showcases the influence of seasonality on ∆′17O values of precipitation and highlights the need for further systematic studies to understand variation in ∆′17O values of precipitation.Key PointsPrecipitation δ′18O-δ′17O slopes often differ from the 0.528 reference valuePrecipitation ∆′17O values are typically higher in the winter and lower in the summerDifferent controls on ∆′17O and δ18O mean that ∆′17O provides new information for paleoclimate reconstructions Peer Reviewed ... |
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Seasonal Variations in Triple Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Precipitation in the Western and Central United States |
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Aron, P. G.; Li, S.; Brooks, J. R.; Welker, J. M.; Levin, N. E. (2023). "Seasonal Variations in Triple Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Precipitation in the Western and Central United States." Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38(4): n/a-n/a. 2572-4517 2572-4525 https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/176279 doi:10.1029/2022PA004458 Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Quade, J., Rech, J. A., Latorre, C., Betancourt, J. L., Gleeson, E., & Kalin, M. T. K. ( 2007 ). Soils at the hyperarid margin: The isotopic composition of soil carbonate from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71 ( 15 ), 3772 – 3795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2007.02.016 Sengupta, S., & Pack, A. ( 2018 ). Triple oxygen isotope mass balance for the Earth’s oceans with application to Archean cherts. Chemical Geology, 495, 18 – 26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.07.012 Sha, L., Mahata, S., Duan, P., Luz, B., Zhang, P., Baker, J., et al. ( 2020 ). 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Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 86 ( 1 ), 401 – 428. https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2021.86.12 Tappa, D. J., Kohn, M. J., Mcnamara, J. P., Benner, S. G., & Flores, A. N. ( 2016 ). Isotopic composition of precipitation in a topographically steep, seasonally snow-dominated watershed and implications of variations from the global meteoric water. 4592, 4582 – 4592. Hydrological%20Processes, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10940 Thompson, L. G., Mosley-Thompson, E., & Henderson, K. A. ( 2000 ). Ice-core palaeoclimate records in tropical South America since the last glacial maximum. Journal of Quaternary Science, 15 ( 4 ), 377 – 394. https://doi.org/10.1002/1099-1417(200005)15:4<377::AID-JQS542>3.0.CO;2-L Tian, C., Jiao, W., Beysens, D., Farai Kaseke, K., Medici, M. G., Li, F., & Wang, L. ( 2021 ). Investigating the role of evaporation in dew formation under different climates using 17 O-excess. 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ftumdeepblue:oai:deepblue.lib.umich.edu:2027.42/176279 2024-06-02T08:15:14+00:00 Seasonal Variations in Triple Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Precipitation in the Western and Central United States Aron, P. G. Li, S. Brooks, J. R. Welker, J. M. Levin, N. E. 2023-04 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/176279 https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004458 unknown USGS Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Aron, P. G.; Li, S.; Brooks, J. R.; Welker, J. M.; Levin, N. E. (2023). "Seasonal Variations in Triple Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Precipitation in the Western and Central United States." Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38(4): n/a-n/a. 2572-4517 2572-4525 https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/176279 doi:10.1029/2022PA004458 Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Quade, J., Rech, J. A., Latorre, C., Betancourt, J. L., Gleeson, E., & Kalin, M. T. K. ( 2007 ). Soils at the hyperarid margin: The isotopic composition of soil carbonate from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71 ( 15 ), 3772 – 3795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2007.02.016 Sengupta, S., & Pack, A. ( 2018 ). Triple oxygen isotope mass balance for the Earth’s oceans with application to Archean cherts. Chemical Geology, 495, 18 – 26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.07.012 Sha, L., Mahata, S., Duan, P., Luz, B., Zhang, P., Baker, J., et al. ( 2020 ). A novel application of triple oxygen isotope ratios of speleothems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 270, 360 – 378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.12.003 Sharp, Z. D., Wostbrock, J. A. G., & Pack, A. ( 2018 ). Mass-dependent triple oxygen isotope variations in terrestrial materials. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 7, 27 – 31. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.1815 Surma, J., Assonov, S., Bolourchi, M. J., & Staubwasser, M. ( 2015 ). Triple oxygen isotope signatures in evaporated water bodies from the Sistan Oasis, Iran. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 ( 20 ), 8456 – 8462. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066475 Surma, J., Assonov, S., Herwartz, D., Voigt, C., & Staubwasser, M. ( 2018 ). The evolution of 17 O-excess in surface water of the arid environment during recharge and evaporation. Scientific Reports, 8, 1 – 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23151-6 Surma, J., Assonov, S., & Staubwasser, M. ( 2021 ). Triple oxygen isotope systematics in the hydrologic cycle. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 86 ( 1 ), 401 – 428. https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2021.86.12 Tappa, D. J., Kohn, M. J., Mcnamara, J. P., Benner, S. G., & Flores, A. N. ( 2016 ). Isotopic composition of precipitation in a topographically steep, seasonally snow-dominated watershed and implications of variations from the global meteoric water. 4592, 4582 – 4592. Hydrological%20Processes, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10940 Thompson, L. G., Mosley-Thompson, E., & Henderson, K. A. ( 2000 ). Ice-core palaeoclimate records in tropical South America since the last glacial maximum. Journal of Quaternary Science, 15 ( 4 ), 377 – 394. https://doi.org/10.1002/1099-1417(200005)15:4<377::AID-JQS542>3.0.CO;2-L Tian, C., Jiao, W., Beysens, D., Farai Kaseke, K., Medici, M. G., Li, F., & Wang, L. ( 2021 ). Investigating the role of evaporation in dew formation under different climates using 17 O-excess. Journal of Hydrology, 592, 125847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125847 Tian, C., & Wang, L. ( 2019 ). Data Descriptor: Stable isotope variations of daily precipitation from 2014 to 2018 in the central United States. Scientific Data, 6, 1 – 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2019.18 Tian, C., Wang, L., Kaseke, K. F., & Bird, B. W. ( 2018 ). Stable isotope compositions ( δ 2 H, δ 18 O, and δ 17 O) of rainfall and snowfall in the central United States. Scientific Reports, 8, 1 – 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25102-7 Tian, C., Wang, L., Tian, F., Zhao, S., & Jiao, W. ( 2019 ). Spatial and temporal variations of tap water 17 O-excess in China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 260, 1 – 14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.06.015 Touzeau, A., Landais, A., Stenni, B., Uemura, R., Fukui, K., Fujita, S., et al. ( 2016 ). Acquisition of isotopic composition for surface snow in East Antarctica and the links to climatic parameters. The Cryosphere, 10 ( 2 ), 837 – 852. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-837-2016 Uechi, Y., & Uemura, R. ( 2019 ). Dominant influence of the humidity in the moisture source region on the 17 O-excess in precipitation on a subtropical island. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 513, 20 – 28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.02.012 Voigt, C., Herwartz, D., Dorador, C., & Staubwasser, M. ( 2021 ). Triple oxygen isotope systematics of evaporation and mixing processes in a dynamic desert lake system. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25 ( 3 ), 1211 – 1228. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1211-2021 Welker, J. M. ( 2012 ). ENSO effects on δ 18 O, δ 2 H, and d -excess values in precipitation across the U.S. using a high-density, long-term network (USNIP). Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26 ( 17 ), 1893 – 1898. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.6298 Welp, L. R., Lee, X., Griffis, T. J., Wen, X. F., Xiao, W., Li, S., et al. ( 2012 ). A meta-analysis of water vapor deuterium-excess in the midlatitude atmospheric surface layer. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26 ( 3 ), 1 – 12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GB004246 Winkler, R., Landais, A., Sodemann, H., Dümbgen, L., Prié, F., Masson-Delmotte, V., et al. ( 2012 ). Deglaciation records of 17 O-excess in East Antarctica: Reliable reconstruction of oceanic normalized relative humidity from coastal sites. Climate of the Past, 8, 1 – 16. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1-2012 Wortham, B. E., Montañez, I. P., Swart, P. K., Vonhof, H., & Tabor, C. ( 2022 ). 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To improve applications of ∆′17O, we present δ18O, d-excess, and ∆′17O data from 26 precipitation sites in the western and central United States and three streams from the Willamette River Basin in western Oregon. In this data set, we find that precipitation ∆′17O tracks evaporation but appears insensitive to many controls that govern variation in δ18O, including Rayleigh distillation, elevation, latitude, longitude, and local precipitation amount. Seasonality has a large effect on ∆′17O variation in the data set and we observe higher seasonally amount-weighted average precipitation ∆′17O values in the winter (40 ± 15 per meg [± standard deviation]) than in the summer (18 ± 18 per meg). This seasonal precipitation ∆′17O variability likely arises from a combination of sub-cloud evaporation, atmospheric mixing, moisture recycling, sublimation, and/or relative humidity, but the data set is not well suited to quantitatively assess isotopic variability associated with each of these processes. The seasonal ∆′17O pattern, which is absent in d-excess and opposite in sign from δ18O, appears in other data sets globally; it showcases the influence of seasonality on ∆′17O values of precipitation and highlights the need for further systematic studies to understand variation in ∆′17O values of precipitation.Key PointsPrecipitation δ′18O-δ′17O slopes often differ from the 0.528 reference valuePrecipitation ∆′17O values are typically higher in the winter and lower in the summerDifferent controls on ∆′17O and δ18O mean that ∆′17O provides new information for paleoclimate reconstructions Peer Reviewed ... Article in Journal/Newspaper The Cryosphere University of Michigan: Deep Blue |