Calibration of speleothem δ18O records against hydroclimate instrumental records in Central Brazil

J. S. Moquet; F. W. Cruz; V. F. Novello; N. M. Stríkis; M. Deininger; I. Karmann; R. Ventura Santos; C. Millo; J. Apaestegui; J. L. Guyot; A. Siffedine; M. Vuille; H. Cheng; R. L. Edwards; W. Santini

doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.02.001

Calibration of speleothem δ¹⁸O records against hydroclimate instrumental records in Central Brazil

J. S. Moquet, F. W. Cruz, V. F. Novello, N. M. Stríkis, M. Deininger, I. Karmann, R. Ventura Santos, C. Millo, J. Apaestegui, J. L. Guyot, A. Siffedine, M. Vuille, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, W. Santini

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Abstract

δ¹⁸O in speleothems is a powerful proxy for reconstruction of precipitation patterns in tropical and sub-tropical regions. The aim of this study is to calibrate the δ¹⁸O record of speleothems against historical precipitation and river discharge data in central Brazil, a region directly influenced by the Southern Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ), a major feature of the South American Monsoon System (SAMS). The present work is based on a sub-annual resolution speleothem record covering the last 141 years (the period between the years 1870 and 2011) from a cave in central Brazil. The comparison of this record with instrumental hydroclimate records since 1921 allows defining a strong relationship between precipitation variability and stable oxygen isotope ratios from speleothems. The results from a monitoring program of climatic parameters and isotopic composition of rainfall and cave seepage waters performed in the same cave, show that the rain δ¹⁸O variability is dominated by the amount effect in this region, while δ¹⁸O drip water remains almost constant over the monitored period (1.5 years). The δ¹⁸O of modern calcite, on the other hand, shows clear seasonal variations, with more negative values observed during the rainy season, which implies that other factors also influence the isotopic composition of carbonate. However, the relationship between δ¹⁸O of carbonate deposits and rainwater is supported by the results from the comparison between speleothem δ¹⁸O records and historical hydroclimate records. A significant correlation between speleothem δ¹⁸O and monsoon rainfall variability is observed on sub-decadal time scales, especially for the monsoon period (DJFM and NDJFM), once the rainfall record have been smoothed with a 7-9 years running mean. This study confirms that speleothem δ¹⁸O is directly associated with monsoon rainfall variability in central Brazil. The relationship between speleothem δ¹⁸O records and hydroclimatic historical records allows approximation of the absolute changes in mean annual rainfall during the last millennia in the SACZ/SAMS domain.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	151-164
Number of pages	14
Journal	Global and Planetary Change
Volume	139
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.02.001
State	Published - Apr 1 2016

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) grant 2011/12238-6 to Moquet, 2012/1187-4 to Karmann, 2012/50260-6 , 2013/50297 to Cruz, 2011/12013-4 to Stríkis, 2012/03942-4 and 2014/10095-1 to Novello and 590172/2011-5 to PRIMO cooperative project (CNPq-IRD). It also benefited from grants from the US-NSF ( 1103403 to R.L.E and H.C. and 1303828 to M.V.). MD acknowledge funding by the Irish Research Council (IRC) by a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship ( GOIPD/2015/789 ). We thank the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive recommendations under the review process. We also thank Ramiro Hilário dos Santos for in-situ water sampling and his help during field work, Dr. Osmar Antunes for his support for carbonate stable isotope analyses in the stable isotope laboratory of the IGc-USP (Sao Paulo — Brazil), Dr. Luis Mancini and Eduardo Carvalho for the water sample stable isotope analyses in the Laboratory of Geochronology in the University of Brasilia (Brazil), Dr. Damien Guillaume for carbonate mineralogical analyses at the GET Laboratory in Toulouse (France), Laia Comas Bru for providing the code for the Monte Carlo tests, Dr. Giuliano Locosselli for help during field work and in laminae counting and Dr. Guillaume Bertrand for his help in improving this manuscript. We thank the IBAMA and ICMBio for permission to collect stalagmite samples.

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Keywords

Central Brazil
Climate calibration
SAMS-SACZ
Speleothem
Stable isotopes

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Moquet, J. S., Cruz, F. W., Novello, V. F., Stríkis, N. M., Deininger, M., Karmann, I., Santos, R. V., Millo, C., Apaestegui, J., Guyot, J. L., Siffedine, A., Vuille, M., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., & Santini, W. (2016). Calibration of speleothem δ¹⁸O records against hydroclimate instrumental records in Central Brazil. Global and Planetary Change, 139, 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.02.001

Moquet, JS, Cruz, FW, Novello, VF, Stríkis, NM, Deininger, M, Karmann, I, Santos, RV, Millo, C, Apaestegui, J, Guyot, JL, Siffedine, A, Vuille, M, Cheng, H, Edwards, RL & Santini, W 2016, 'Calibration of speleothem δ¹⁸O records against hydroclimate instrumental records in Central Brazil', Global and Planetary Change, vol. 139, pp. 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.02.001

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