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Climatic and environmental changes traced in Indian Ocean corals
Received date: 2016-10-14
Request revised date: 2016-11-16
Online published: 2018-01-18
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China (41476038, 41676049)
Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Association (2015284)
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The Indian Ocean is critical for China's economy and climate changes. Coral-based climatic and environmental changes can effectively prolong recorded time series, longer than instrumental records, because reef corals are widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, their aragonite skeletons have an annual banding structure and are suitable for U/Th dating, and their geochemical records are reliable. In this paper, we first introduced the coral reef distribution in the Indian Ocean, and its current status and importance. Then, we reviewed coral-based past climatic and environmental change reconstructions based on four aspects including environmental pollution, paleo-storms, paleo-sea level variation, and climate changes (such as Asian monsoon, rainfall, atmospheric circulation, sea surface temperature, Indian Ocean Dipole, and ocean currents). We ended the paper with a summary and discussion.
Key words: Indian Ocean; coral; recording; climate change; environmental change
CHEN Tianran , HU Minhang . Climatic and environmental changes traced in Indian Ocean corals[J]. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2017 , 36(6) : 39 -50 . DOI: 10.11978/2016097
Fig. 1 Yellow markers indicate the distribution of Indian Ocean coral reefs. Data are from Wilkinson (2008). Geophysical data are download from NOAA (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov). White dotted boxes indicate the major areas of coral-based climate reconstructions图1 印度洋的珊瑚礁(黄色短曲线)分布示意图(资料来源: Wilkinson, 2008) 底图的印度洋地形数据来源于NOAA (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov)。白色虚线方框内为有珊瑚地球化学记录的主要海区 |
Fig. 2 Diagrams of microatoll. After Natawidjaja et al (2004).(a) A fossil microatoll off Sumatra; (b) X-ray photography of the slab collected in the fossil microatoll; and (c) the picture shows the growth of the microatoll 图2 微环礁示意图(Natawidjaja et al, 2004) a. 苏门答腊古微环礁(中间切去了一个断面); b. 断面切片的X光照片(上面可清楚看到明暗相间的年生长带, 图中#cod#x0201c;1897#cod#x000b1;8#cod#x0201d;等指示的是U/Th年代的结果); c. 微环礁的生长过程 |
Fig. 3 Holocene sea level changes revealed by reef cores from the western Indian Ocean. The results of Camoin et al (1997, 2004) are shown as a black line; the results of Zinke et al (2003, as a green line; and the results of Kench et al (2009, as a red line图3 西印度洋珊瑚礁钻孔指示的全新世以来的海平面变化 根据文献Camoin et al, 1997, 2004(黑色); Zinke et al, 2003(绿色); Kench et al, 2009(红色) |
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