2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Characteristic of East Asia climatic changes and its synchronization with global climatic changes
Project/Area Number |
16310008
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Environmental dynamic analysis
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Research Institution | Nagoya University |
Principal Investigator |
KITAGAWA Hiroyuki Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Associate Professor, 大学院環境学研究科, 助教授 (00234245)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TANOUE Eiichiro Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Professor, 大学院環境学研究科, 教授 (50133129)
MATSUZAKI Hiroyuki The University of Tokyo, School of Engineering, Associate Professor, 大学院工学系研究科, 助教授 (60313194)
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Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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Keywords | ASIA / CLIMATE CHANGE / ENVIROMENTAL CHANGE / ISOTOPE / CHRONOLOGY |
Research Abstract |
The aim of this research is to characterize the terrestrial climatic changes for three different spatial-scales of global, Asia, and East Asia. Major research subjects are as follows: (1) climate reconstruction in land region where enough climate change reconstruction is not done, (2) chronological matching among the records of climatic changes obtained from ocean, land and poles. The research has also developed the methods necessary for paleoenvironmental studies such as silicon and oxygen isotope analyses of the diatom fossil in lake sediment, the extraction method of the diatom fossil from the sediments and the isotope of lake sediment cellulose, which are thought to be effective as a climate change proxy. We have successfully developed new methods for determining the silicon and oxygen isotope changes of fossil diatom (laser- and batch methods), the carbon and radiocarbon isotope changes of lake sediment cellulose. These methods will be effective for investigating the terrestrial climatic changes. These R&D will give the detailed information on terrestrial climatic changes for three different spatial-scales. It is remarked that the difference of the climate change pattern from the last glacial period to interglacial in the Atlantic Ocean region and the Pacific Ocean region were identified.
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Research Products
(24 results)