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Unlabelled: Extant climate observations suggest the dry season over large parts of the Amazon Basin has become longer and drier over recent decades. However, such possible intensification of the Amazon dry season and its underlying causes are still a matter of debate. Here we used oxygen isotope ratios in tree rings (δO) from six floodplain trees from the western Amazon to assess changes in past climate. Our analysis shows that δO of these trees is negatively related to inter-annual variability of precipitation during the dry season over large parts of the Amazon Basin, consistent with a Rayleigh rainout model. Furthermore δO increases by approximately 2‰ over the last four decades (~ 1970-2014) providing evidence of an Amazon drying trend independent from satellite and in situ rainfall observations. Using a Rayleigh rainout framework, we estimate basin-wide dry season rainfall to have decreased by up to 30%. The δO record further suggests such drying trend may not be unprecedented over the past 80 years. Analysis of δO with sea surface temperatures indicates a strong role of a warming Tropical North Atlantic Ocean in driving this long-term increase in δO and decrease in dry season rainfall.
Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00382-021-06046-7.
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