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Synchronous pattern of moisture availability on the southern Tibetan Plateau since 17.5 cal. ka BP - the Tangra Yumco lake sediment record

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Ahlborn,  Marieke
5.2 Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, 5.0 Geoarchives, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Haberzettl,  Torsten
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Wang,  Junbo
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Henkel,  Karoline
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Kasper,  Thomas
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Daut,  Gerhard
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Zhu,  Liping
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Mäusbacher,  Roland
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Ahlborn, M., Haberzettl, T., Wang, J., Henkel, K., Kasper, T., Daut, G., Zhu, L., Mäusbacher, R. (2017): Synchronous pattern of moisture availability on the southern Tibetan Plateau since 17.5 cal. ka BP - the Tangra Yumco lake sediment record. - Boreas, 46, 2, 229-241.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12204


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_1723892
Abstract
A possible asynchronicity of the spatial and temporal moisture availability on the Tibetan Plateau has been a controversial subject of discussion in recent years. Here we present the first attempt to systematically investigate possible spatial and temporal variations in moisture availability by examining two lakes, Tangra Yumco and Nam Co, on an east–west transect on the southern Tibetan Plateau using identical proxies for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. In this study, an independent record from Tangra Yumco was analysed applying a multi-proxy approach to reconstruct variations in moisture availability since the Lateglacial. Results were subsequently compared with previously published records from Nam Co and additional records from Tso Moriri (northwestern Himalaya) and Naleng Co (southeastern Tibetan Plateau). Our results show that Tangra Yumco was at least partially ice covered prior to 17.1 cal. ka BP. A temperature rise after 17.1 cal. ka BP probably resulted in thawing of the permafrost. At 16.0 cal. ka BP moisture availability increased, representing an initial monsoonal intensification. Warmer conditions between 13.0 and 12.4 cal. ka BP and cooler conditions between 12.4 cal. ka BP and the onset of the Holocene reflect the Bølling-Allerød and Younger Dryas. At the onset of the Holocene moisture availability rapidly increased, with moisture highest prior to 8.5 cal. ka BP when temperatures were also highest. After 8.5 cal. ka BP the moisture availability gradually decreased and showed only minor amplitude variations. These findings are consistent with the records from large lakes like Nam Co, Tso Moriri, and Naleng Co, revealing a synchronous pattern of moisture availability on the southern Tibetan Plateau.