Dasuopu Glacier, Tibetan Plateau
Reference
Thompson, L.G., Mosley-Thompson, E., Davis, M.E., Lin, P.-N., Henderson, K. and Mashiotta, T.A. 2003. Tropical glacier and ice core evidence of climate change on annual to millennial time scales. Climatic Change 59: 137-155.
Reference
Thompson, L.G., Mosley-Thompson, E., Davis, M.E., Lin, P.-N., Henderson, K. and Mashiotta, T.A. 2003. Tropical glacier and ice core evidence of climate change on annual to millennial time scales. Climatic Change 59: 137-155.
Description
The authors analyzed decadally-averaged δ18O records derived by them and their colleagues from three Andean and three Tibetan ice cores, demonstrating that "on centennial to millennial time scales atmospheric temperature is the principal control on the δ18Oice of the snowfall that sustains these high mountain ice fields," after which they produced "a low latitude δ18O history for the last millennium" that they use as a surrogate for air temperature. For the Dasuopu Glacier (~28.38°N, 85.72°E), this work revealed no evidence of the Medieval Warm Period, making the CWP warmer (but by an unknown amount) than the period of time when the MWP is typically found in other studies.
