Dry or humid? Mid-Holocene humidity changes in arid and semi-arid China
Spatial changes of effective moisture during the mid-Holocene have been reconstructed based on the compilation of recently published paleoclimate records, including ice core, lake level, pollen assemblage, and loess-paleosol records. Both geological data and the spatial pattern indicate that it was...
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ftunivpittsburgh:oai:d-scholarship.pitt.edu:23362 2023-09-05T13:20:12+02:00 Dry or humid? Mid-Holocene humidity changes in arid and semi-arid China An, CB Feng, ZD Barton, L 2006-02-01 text/plain http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/23362/ http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/23362/1/licence.txt en eng http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/23362/1/licence.txt An, CB and Feng, ZD and Barton, L (2006) Dry or humid? Mid-Holocene humidity changes in arid and semi-arid China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25 (3-4). 351 - 361. ISSN 0277-3791 attached Article PeerReviewed 2006 ftunivpittsburgh 2023-08-14T17:34:43Z Spatial changes of effective moisture during the mid-Holocene have been reconstructed based on the compilation of recently published paleoclimate records, including ice core, lake level, pollen assemblage, and loess-paleosol records. Both geological data and the spatial pattern indicate that it was dry in deserts during the mid-Holocene, but the timing of the beginning and end of dry intervals differs from place to place. Deserts having higher aridity index values remain dry longer. Dry intervals during the mid-Holocene are more possibly asynchronous than synchronous in arid and semi-arid China. In the Xinjiang region, except in sites located in deserts, the climate is generally wet during 7000-5000 a BP. In the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, effective moisture in most sites began to decrease after 5000 a BP. The climate became dry after 4000 a BP except in the deserts in the Loess Plateau and the Inner Mongolia Plateau. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Article in Journal/Newspaper ice core University of Pittsburgh: D-Scholarship@Pitt |
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Spatial changes of effective moisture during the mid-Holocene have been reconstructed based on the compilation of recently published paleoclimate records, including ice core, lake level, pollen assemblage, and loess-paleosol records. Both geological data and the spatial pattern indicate that it was dry in deserts during the mid-Holocene, but the timing of the beginning and end of dry intervals differs from place to place. Deserts having higher aridity index values remain dry longer. Dry intervals during the mid-Holocene are more possibly asynchronous than synchronous in arid and semi-arid China. In the Xinjiang region, except in sites located in deserts, the climate is generally wet during 7000-5000 a BP. In the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, effective moisture in most sites began to decrease after 5000 a BP. The climate became dry after 4000 a BP except in the deserts in the Loess Plateau and the Inner Mongolia Plateau. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/23362/1/licence.txt An, CB and Feng, ZD and Barton, L (2006) Dry or humid? Mid-Holocene humidity changes in arid and semi-arid China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25 (3-4). 351 - 361. ISSN 0277-3791 |
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