Inter-annual and inter-decade variability of the oxygen isotopic composition of massive corals from the South China Sea and the climatic influencing factors

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	Inter-annual and inter-decade variability of the oxygen isotopic composition of massive corals from the South China Sea and the climatic influencing factors
	Su, RX ; Zhu, ZY ; Chen, XM
刊名	CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
	2006
卷号	51 期号:Suppl. 2 页码:66-75
关键词	coral oxygen isotope fractionation Asian monsoon
ISSN号	1001-6538
通讯作者	srx@scsio.ac.cn
中文摘要	Coral colonies of Porites lutea and P lobata were collected from the east offshore of Hainan Island, South China Sea. Oxygen isotope ratios, O-18/O-16, were analyzed along the major axis of growth at a resolution of 25-28 samples within an annual band from three colonies in order to study the relation between coral oxygen isotopic composition and the monsoonal climate in seasonal, inter-annual and inter-decade time scales. The results indicate that the seasonal and inter-annual variations of coral delta O-18 are mainly controlled by temperature. While the coral delta O-18 is mainly controlled by SST, deviations of the delta O-18 from SST correlate statistically with sea surface salinity. Therefore, we suggest that the interannual variation of the annual coral delta O-18 minima is mainly controlled by seawater composition. Seawater composition analysis indicates that its delta O-18 and salinity are simultaneously affected by freshwater inputs primarily from precipitation, which is mainly supplied by the Asian summer monsoon. Thus seasonal alternations of the winter and summer monsoon mainly control the coral delta O-18, thereby allowing reconstruction of these monsoonal variables. These inter-decadal trends are roughly consistent with salinity changes, but not with temperature and precipitation, suggesting that seawater composition controlled by freshwater inputs from distant source areas, rather than from local precipitation, is responsible for the trends in seawater composition and coral delta O-18 which is probably the consequence of monsoonal precipitation over the source areas of freshwater, evaporation and the water exchange between South China Sea and Pacific Ocean.
学科主题	Multidisciplinary Sciences
收录类别	SCI
原文出处	SCIENCE CHINA PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000244074100010
公开日期	2011-07-03
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.scsio.ac.cn/handle/344004/4368]
专题	南海海洋研究所_中科院边缘海地质重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Su, RX,Zhu, ZY,Chen, XM. Inter-annual and inter-decade variability of the oxygen isotopic composition of massive corals from the South China Sea and the climatic influencing factors[J]. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,2006,51(Suppl. 2):66-75.
APA	Su, RX,Zhu, ZY,&Chen, XM.(2006).Inter-annual and inter-decade variability of the oxygen isotopic composition of massive corals from the South China Sea and the climatic influencing factors.CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,51(Suppl. 2),66-75.
MLA	Su, RX,et al."Inter-annual and inter-decade variability of the oxygen isotopic composition of massive corals from the South China Sea and the climatic influencing factors".CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 51.Suppl. 2(2006):66-75.