Paper No. 20-23
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
ANNUALLY-RESOLVED ENSO-HYDROCLIMATE ACTIVITIES AS RECORDED IN STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPE OF TECTONA GRANDIS L. F. FROM SOUTHEAST SULAWESI OVER THE PAST ~300 YEARS
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a quasi-periodic interannual oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific which greatly influences global climate variability. However, until recently the long-term response to external radiative forcings is still controversial. In this study, we observed oxygen isotopes from dendrochronologically dated teak (Tectona grandis L. f.) α-cellulose samples collected at Muna, Indonesia (5.3ºS, 123ºE, elev. 10m). In this study we managed to combine four crossdated increment core samples of tg01c (1712 - 1995), mun63 (1799 -2004), tg11a (1680 - 1848), and mun81 (1764 - 2004) into an annually composite time series with a span of the past ~300 years. In processing this time series composite, we performed low-pass filtering by applying the Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) algorithm with five embedding dimensions to obtain ENSO-hydroclimate information which is the interannual mode by removing the main embedding dimension. The annually-resolved composite time series of δ18O that we constructed has a higher resolution than other studies that have been conducted to reconstruct ENSO-hydroclimate activities in the western tropical Pacific region over this period. This annually-resolved composite time series of δ18O can be used to study the response of ENSO to volcanic and greenhouse gas forcings in the period before and after the industrial revolution.