TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lechleitner, Franziska A.
A1  - Breitenbach, Sebastian Franz Martin
A1  - Cheng, Hai
A1  - Plessen, Birgit
A1  - Rehfeld, Kira
A1  - Goswami, Bedartha
A1  - Marwan, Norbert
A1  - Eroglu, Deniz
A1  - Adkins, Jess F.
A1  - Haug, Gerald
T1  - Climatic and in-cave influences on delta O-18 and delta C-13 in a stalagmite from northeastern India through the last deglaciation
JF  - Quaternary research : an interdisciplinary journal
N2  - Northeastern (NE) India experiences extraordinarily pronounced seasonal climate, governed by the Indian summer monsoon (ISM). The vulnerability of this region to floods and droughts calls for detailed and highly resolved paleoclimate reconstructions to assess the recurrence rate and driving factors of ISM changes. We use stable oxygen and carbon isotope ratios (delta O-18 and delta C-13) from stalagmite MAW-6 from Mawmluh Cave to infer climate and environmental conditions in NE India over the last deglaciation (16-6ka). We interpret stalagmite delta O-18 as reflecting ISM strength, whereas delta C-13 appears to be driven by local hydroclimate conditions. Pronounced shifts in ISM strength over the deglaciation are apparent from the delta O-18 record, similarly to other records from monsoonal Asia. The ISM is weaker during the late glacial (LG) period and the Younger Dryas, and stronger during the BOlling-Allerod and Holocene. Local conditions inferred from the delta C-13 record appear to have changed less substantially over time, possibly related to the masking effect of changing precipitation seasonality. Time series analysis of the delta O-18 record reveals more chaotic conditions during the late glacial and higher predictability during the Holocene, likely related to the strengthening of the seasonal recurrence of the ISM with the onset of the Holocene.
KW  - Indian Summer Monsoon
KW  - stalagmite
KW  - oxygen isotopes
KW  - carbon isotopes
KW  - deglaciation
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.72
SN  - 0033-5894
SN  - 1096-0287
VL  - 88
SP  - 458
EP  - 471
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Breitenbach, Sebastian Franz Martin
A1  - Adkins, Jess F.
A1  - Meyer, Hanno
A1  - Marwan, Norbert
A1  - Kumar, Kanikicharla Krishna
A1  - Haug, Gerald H.
T1  - Strong influence of water vapor source dynamics on stable isotopes in precipitation observed in Southern Meghalaya, NE India
N2  - To calibrate delta O-18 time-series from speleothems in the eastern Indian summer monsoon (ISM) region of India, and to understand the moisture regime over the northern Bay of Bengal (BoB) we analyze the delta O-18 and delta D of rainwater, collected in 2007 and 2008 near Cherrapunji, India. delta D values range from + 18.5 parts per thousand to 144.4 parts per thousand, while delta O-18 varies between +0.8 parts per thousand and 18.8 parts per thousand. The Local Meteoric Water Line (LMWL) is found to be indistinguishable from the Global Meteoric Water Line (GMWL). Late ISM (September-October) rainfall exhibits lowest delta O-18 and delta D values, with little relationship to the local precipitation amount. There is a trend to lighter isotope values over the course of the ISM, but it does not correlate with the patterns of temperature and rainfall amount delta O-18 and delta D time-series have to be interpreted with caution in terms of the 'amount effect' in this subtropical region. We find that the temporal trend in delta O-18 reflects increasing transport distance during the ISM, isotopic changes in the northern BoB surface waters during late ISM, and vapor re-equilibration with rain droplets. Using an isotope box model for surface ocean waters, we quantify the potential influence of river runoff on the isotopic composition of the seasonal freshwater plume in the northern BoB. Temporal variations in this source can contribute up to 25% of the observed changes in stable isotopes of precipitation in NE India. To delineate other moisture sources, we use backward trajectory computations and find a strong correlation between source region and isotopic composition. Palaeoclimatic stable isotope time-series from northeast Indian speleothems likely reflect changes in moisture source and transport pathway, as well as the isotopic composition of the BoB surface water, all of which in turn reflect ISM strength. Stalagmite records from the region can therefore be interpreted as integrated measures of the ISM strength.
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0012821X
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.038
SN  - 0012-821X
ER  -