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Air mass origin signals in δ 18O of tree-ring cellulose revealed by back-trajectory modeling at the monsoonal Tibetan plateau

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A profound consideration of stable oxygen isotope source water origins is a precondition for an unambiguous palaeoenvironmental interpretation of terrestrial δ 18O archives. To stress the influence of air mass origins on widely used δ 18O tree-ring chronologies, we conducted correlation analyses between six annually resolved δ 18O tree-ring cellulose (\(\delta ^{18}\textit {O}_{TC}\)) chronologies and mean annual air package origins obtained from backward trajectory modeling. This novel approach has been tested for a transect at the southeastern Tibetan plateau (TP), where air masses with different isotopic composition overlap. Detailed examinations of daily precipitation amounts and monthly precipitation δ 18O values (\(\delta ^{18}\textit {O}_{P}\)) were conducted with the ERA Interim and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique General Circulation Model (LMDZiso) data, respectively. Particularly the southernmost study sites are influenced by a distinct amount effect. Here, air package origin \(\delta ^{18}\textit {O}_{TC}\) relations are generally weaker in contrast to our northern located study sites. We found that tree-ring isotope signatures at dry sites with less rain days per year tend to be influenced stronger by air mass origin than tree-ring isotope values at semi-humid sites. That implies that the local hydroclimate history inferred from \(\delta ^{18}\textit {O}_{TC}\) archives is better recorded at semi-humid sites.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF: FKZ 03G0811) and the German Research Council (DFG: BR 1895/21) for their financial support. We also thank Roswitha Höfner-Stich for her efficient and precise analysis of stable oxygen isotopes ratios in tree-ring cellulose. Additionally, we thank Dr. Masaki Sano for providing the data of study site Bhutan.

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  1. Institute of Geography, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Wetterkreuz 15, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Jakob Wernicke, Philipp Hochreuther, Jussi Grießinger & Achim Bräuning

  2. Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Haifeng Zhu

  3. Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Lily Wang

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Wernicke, J., Hochreuther, P., Grießinger, J. et al. Air mass origin signals in δ 18O of tree-ring cellulose revealed by back-trajectory modeling at the monsoonal Tibetan plateau. Int J Biometeorol 61, 1109–1124 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-016-1292-y

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