[A-HW23] Isotope Hydrology 2021

[AHW23-P06] Temporal variation of stable isotopes in precipitation based on the intermittent sampling for 1998-2018 at Tiksi, northeastern Siberia

*Kimpei Ichiyanagi¹, Hotaek Park², Masahiro Tanoue³ (1.Kumamoto University, 2.JAMSTEC, 3.National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Keywords:isotopic composition, precipitation, northeastern Siberia

Recent global warming affects significant impacts on air temperature and sea ice extent through the atmospheric hydrological cycle in the Arctic region. Stable water isotopes are useful tracer for estimating the moisture source and transportation pathway in the atmospheric hydrological cycle. From 1998 to 2018, daily precipitation samples were intermittently collected at Tiksi, northern Siberia, Russia. Totally 1,519 samples for δ¹⁸O and 1,024 samples for δ²H were analyzed by the Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) by the 10th September 2007 and by the Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) after 11th September 2007. At the last JpGU meeting (abstract ID; AHW34-P10), we reported the depleting trend of deuterium excess (d-excess) in precipitation. Comparing with another isotopic data from July 2015 to June 2017 observed at Samoylov Island near Tiksi (Bonne et al., 2020), annual mean values of surface air temperature, δ²H, and δ¹⁸O were matching well. However, annual mean d-excess at Samoylov Island was more than 10‰ higher than the observation at Tiksi. This fact indicates the depleting trend of d-excess at Tiksi might be caused by the insufficient quality check of observation data. Therefore, new quality control method by using relationships between δ¹⁸O or δ²H in precipitation samples analyzed by the IRMS and surface air temperature at Tiksi were adapted to the samples analyzed by the CRDS. The temperature effects for δ¹⁸O and δ²H by the IRMS were 0.47‰ and 3.15‰, respectively. Finally, 1,257 samples for δ¹⁸O and 820 samples for δ²H were selected to calculate monthly mean values. From the monthly mean surface air temperature at Tiksi from 1998 to 2018, long-term increasing trends in March, April, October, and November were significant (0.24-0.42℃/month within 5% statistically significance). Furthermore, the difference in air temperature, evaporation, and 850hPa winds fields between first 5 years (1998-2002) and last 5 years (2014-2018) of the observation period were investigated by using the NCEP reanalysis. The positive anomalies in air temperature, evaporation, and southwesterly (northerly) wind anomalies were found in the northern Siberian continent (along the coast of the Arctic Ocean) in March and April (October and November). On the other hand, the relationships between surface air temperature and δ¹⁸O in precipitation were found only in April (0.50‰/℃) and October (0.73‰/℃) within 5% statistically significance. The difference in temperature effect between April and October might be caused by the difference in moisture source evaporated from land and open water in the Arctic Ocean.