Joint 72nd Annual Southeastern/ 58th Annual Northeastern Section Meeting - 2023

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


HERHO, Sandy, Department of Geology, University of Maryland, 8000 Regents Dr, #237, College Park, MD 20742; Paleoclimate CoLaboratory, University of Maryland, Chemistry Building, 8051 Regents Dr. #1212, College Park, MD 20742, EVANS, Michael N., Department of Geology, University of Maryland, 8000 Regents Dr, #237, College Park, MD 20742; Paleoclimate CoLaboratory, University of Maryland, Chemistry Building, 8051 Regents Dr. #1212, College Park, MD 20742; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, WOLLNEY, Jenna C., Geology, University of Maryland, 8000 Regents Dr, #237, College Park, MD 20742; Paleoclimate CoLaboratory, University of Maryland, Chemistry Building, 8051 Regents Dr. #1212, College Park, MD 20742, CARTER, Austin C., Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, 3102 A. James Clark Hall, 8051 Regents Dr. #1212, College Park, MD 20742; Paleoclimate CoLaboratory, University of Maryland, Chemistry Building, 8051 Regents Dr. #1212, College Park, MD 20742, GBENRO, Mary A., Paleoclimate CoLaboratory, University of Maryland, Chemistry Building, 8051 Regents Dr. #1212, College Park, MD 20742 and D'ARRIGO, Rosanne, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964

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.