Climate instability during the last glaciation recorded in the Yuanbu loess section

Climate instability during the last glaciation

recorded in the Yuanbu loess section

Yimeng Chen

【期刊名称】《自然科学进展（英文版）》 【年(卷),期】2009(019)004

【摘要】Abrupt events within the Linxia Yuanbu loess section in the western Loess Plateau in China were investigated.The climatic proxy index of the content of mean grain-size and＞4 μm grain-size fraction of the section was used as a climatic indicator,and a moving average method was applied in the statistical analysis to extract the abrupt events recorded in the section.It was found that the loess of the last glaciation recorded not only the abrupt events teleconnected with the high-latitude North Atlantic and Greenland regions but also as many as 15 abrupt events in addition to the Heinrich (H) and Younger Dryas (YD) events.This indicates that abrupt climate changes were typical of the climate changes occurring in the Loess Plateau during the last glaciation.The widely recognized mechanisms of the abrupt climate changes,including the heat transfer theory of the North Atlantic Ocean,the atmospheric circulation theory,and the theory of the interaction between low-latitude ocean and the atmosphere remains to be discussed.Perhaps this problem could be resolved by revealing the relation between the evolution of the features of the East Asian

monsoon climate and the climate in the surrounding areas.Through a detailed study of the features of the Heinrich and YD events,criteria on which the abrupt events recorded in the loess could be distinguished were tentatively defined.The events were associated with a large grain size,high carbonate content,high lightness,low susceptibility,low redness and low yellowness.In addition,the variation amplitude of the adjacent peak and valley on the curve of the content of the mean grain-size and＞40μm grain-size fraction was larger than 3.4μm and the content of ＞40μm grain-size fraction was larger than 2.0μm.Lastly,the length of the variation time was less than 500 years.If all these criteria were met,the event was viewed as an abrupt event. 【总页数】7页(453-459) 【关键词】

【作者】Yimeng Chen

【作者单位】Department of Economics & Management,Huizhou University,Huizhou 516007,China 【正文语种】中文 【中图分类】O4 【文献来源】

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