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. 2013 May 13;110(22):8813–8818. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1213366110

Table 1.

Modern climatological data and proxy based reconstructions of past climate

Climate parameter Value
Modern warm month (JJA) climatological data
 Monthly average* 23.3 °C
 Monthly average daily high* 28.8 °C
 GNIP station water isotopes in precipitation (V-SMOW) −7.1‰
Pedogenic carbonate-derived temperature and δ18O
 LGM temperature (soil carbonate Δ47-derived) 17.8 ± 2.0 °C
 LGM soil carbonate formation water δ18O (ice-vol. corr.)§ −9.1 ± 0.5‰
 ΔT (LGM-GNIP station) −5.5 ± 2.0 °C
 Δδ18O (soil carbonate-GNIP station water δ18O; V-SMOW) −2.0 ± 0.5‰
Terrestrial gastropod calcification temperature and δ18O
 Modern temperature (Δ47-derived) 31.2 ± 1.5 °C
 LGM temperature (Δ47-derived) 24.2 ± 1.9 °C
 Modern body water δ18O (V-SMOW) −0.5‰
 Glacial body water δ18O (ice-vol. corr.; V-SMOW) −5.5‰
 ΔT (LGM-modern) −7.0 ± 2.4 °C
 Δδ18O meteoric water (LGM-modern; V-SMOW)** −5.2 ± 0.5‰

Values with a ± symbol indicate two SE values derived from the error in stable isotope determinations or the propagated uncertainty when comparing two values with errors. JJA, June, July, August; V-SMOW, Vienna standard mean ocean water.

*

Data compiled for the years 2007–2010 from the nearby climate station at Yan An, Shaanxi province (36.6° N, 109.5° E, 959-m elevation); details are provided in SI Appendix.

Data from the nearby Taiyuan Global Network for Isotope Precipitation (GNIP) station (37.8° N, 112.6° E, 778-m elevation), which has the most similar altitude to Puxian of the GNIP sites in closest proximity to our study site (SI Appendix, Table S8).

Δ47-Derived temperatures are determined from the stable isotope data given in SI Appendix, Tables S1–S3.

§

Calculated using the Δ47-derived temperature and soil carbonate δ18O and corrected by 1.2‰ for LGM ice volume change.

Error calculated using a 0.5 °C uncertainty in modern climatological data and the error in the LGM Δ47 temperature determination.

Error is the propagated error of temperature and δ18O determinations (SI Appendix).

**

Calculated using an isotope flux model of gastropod body water and assuming constant humidity in gastropod microenvironment; details are provided in SI Appendix.