Rates, Rhythms and Reactions of the Lake Baikal Watershed toAtmospheric Forcing, Neotectonics, and Climatic Changes in the Siberian Sector of Asia

该项目的目标是确定 贝加尔湖水文系统对过去气候变化的强迫 和新构造运动 具有全球重要性的九个具体时间窗口 是一个三年计划的目标。 研究 的目的是研究这些时间窗口，通过获取和分析 贝加尔湖沉积物档案的核心， AMS ~（14）C测年、磁测年、地层格架 高分辨率3.5kKz地震地层学。 贝加尔湖古湖沼学项目提供了独特的机会 全面的美俄科学合作 知识 世界上最大最深的淡水 大陆气候变化和大气强迫将 为国际社会的努力作出新的重大贡献， 了解大型生态系统过去的响应动态， 重要的时间窗口。 该项目被密切指导， 根据PAGES国际的建议， 地圈/生物圈项目以及气候和水文方面 地球系统的历史为美国全球变化计划。

The goal of this project is to determine the response of the Baikal hydrological system to forcing from past changes in climate and neotectonics. Nine specific time windows of global importance are targeted in a 3-year program of iterative steps. The research is designed to study these time windows by obtaining and analyzing cores of Lake Baikal's sedimentary archive with a lithochrono- stratigraphic framework constrained by AMS 14C dating, magnetic stratigraphy and high resolution 3.5 kKz seismic stratigraphy. The Lake Baikal paleolimnology project offers unique opportunities as a full-scale American Russian scientific partnership. Knowledge about the response of the world's largest and deepest freshwater body to continental climate change and atmospheric forcing will contribute significant new results to international efforts to understand the past response dynamics of large ecosystems during important time windows. The project is guided as closely as possible by recommendations of the PAGES International Geosphere/Biosphere project, and climate and hydrological aspects of Earth Systems history for the U.S. Global Change Program.