East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I

H Zhang, ML Griffiths, JCH Chiang, W Kong, S Wu… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Speleothem oxygen isotope records have revolutionized our understanding of the paleo
East Asian monsoon, yet there is fundamental disagreement on what they represent in terms …

Holocene temperature and hydrological changes reconstructed by bacterial 3-hydroxy fatty acids in a stalagmite from central China

C Wang, JA Bendle, H Zhang, Y Yang, D Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
To achieve a sufficient understanding of the spatial dynamics of terrestrial climate variability,
new proxies and networks of data that cover thousands of years and run up to the present …

The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

K Atsawawaranunt, L Comas-Bru… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most
particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and …

Tropical Indo-Pacific hydroclimate response to North Atlantic forcing during the last deglaciation as recorded by a speleothem from Sumatra, Indonesia

JB Wurtzel, NJ Abram, SC Lewis, P Bajo… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Abrupt changes in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation are known to have
affected the strength of the Indian and Asian Monsoons during glacial and deglacial climate …

[HTML][HTML] 湖北清江和尚洞石笋色度对温度的响应

胡尊语, 覃荣蓓, 樊仁为, 王孟禹, 胡超涌 - 第四纪研究, 2018 - html.rhhz.net
石笋在古气候重建中得到广泛应用, 但石笋现有的各种替代指标的气候解释仍存在较大的不确定
性, 将它们定量解译到温度和降水仍存在不少的困难. 本研究中, 首先对湖北清江和尚洞最近100 …

Geochemical characteristics of cave drip water respond to ENSO based on a 6-year monitoring work in Yangkou Cave, Southwest China

CJ Chen, TY Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
The scientific explanation of speleothem δ 18 O in Chinese monsoon region is a greatly
debated issue. Modern cave monitoring combined with instrument observation maybe is an …

The 5.5 cal ka BP climate event, population growth, circumscription and the emergence of the earliest complex societies in China

WX Wu, HB Zheng, M Hou, QS Ge - Science China Earth Sciences, 2018 - Springer
The emergence of complex society is a milestone in the history of human society evolution.
China is one of the few regions in the world where the earliest complex society appeared; …

The 8.2 ka BP Holocene climate change event and human population resilience in northwest Atlantic Europe

S Griffiths, E Robinson - Quaternary International, 2018 - Elsevier
The 8.2 ka BP event may represent the largest, most abrupt Holocene climate event. This
paper examines the impact of this event on human activity in the middle Mesolithic. It …

The 9.2 ka event in Asian summer monsoon area: the strongest millennial scale collapse of the monsoon during the Holocene

W Zhang, H Yan, J Dodson, P Cheng, C Liu, J Li, F Lu… - Climate dynamics, 2018 - Springer
Numerous Holocene paleo-proxy records exhibit a series of centennial-millennial scale
rapid climatic events. Unlike the widely acknowledged 8.2 ka climate anomaly, the likelihood …

[PDF][PDF] Variation of d13C in plant-soil-cave systems in karst regions with different degrees of rocky desertification in Southwest China and implications for …

TY Li, CX Huang, L Tian, MB Suarez… - Journal of Cave and …, 2018 - legacy.caves.org
Speleothem 13C has been taken as an indicator of the history of rocky desertification, and
changes in 13C have been thought to reflect the transition between C3 and C4 surface …