A 550,000-year record of East Asian monsoon rainfall from 10Be in loess

JW Beck, W Zhou, C Li, Z Wu, L White, F Xian, X Kong… - science, 2018 - science.org
Cosmogenic 10Be flux from the atmosphere is a proxy for rainfall. Using this proxy, we
derived a 550,000-year-long record of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) rainfall from …

A review of paleo El Niño-southern oscillation

Z Lu, Z Liu, J Zhu, KM Cobb - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Earth has seen El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)—the leading mode of interannual
climate variability—for at least millennia and likely over millions of years. This paper reviews …

Cyclic evolution of phytoplankton forced by changes in tropical seasonality

L Beaufort, CT Bolton, AC Sarr, B Suchéras-Marx… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Although the role of Earth's orbital variations in driving global climate cycles has long been
recognized, their effect on evolution is hitherto unknown. The fossil remains of …

A role for orbital eccentricity in Earth's seasonal climate

JCH Chiang, AJ Broccoli - Geoscience Letters, 2023 - Springer
The seasonality of Earth's climate is driven by two factors: the tilt of the Earth's rotation axis
relative to the plane of its orbit (hereafter the tilt effect), and the variation in the Earth–Sun …

Unraveling forced responses of extreme El Niño variability over the Holocene

AE Lawman, PN Di Nezio, JW Partin, SG Dee… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Uncertainty surrounding the future response of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
variability to anthropogenic warming necessitates the study of past ENSO sensitivity to …

Interpreting Precession‐Driven δ18O Variability in the South Asian Monsoon Region

CR Tabor, BL Otto‐Bliesner, EC Brady… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Speleothem records from the South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) region display
variability in the ratio of 18O and 16O (δ18O) in calcium carbonate at orbital frequencies …

Prominent precession band variance in ENSO intensity over the last 300,000 years

Z Lu, Z Liu, G Chen, J Guan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Three transient National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate
System Model, version 3 model simulations were analyzed to study the responses of El Niño …

Precession modulation of the South Pacific westerly wind belt over the past million years

F Lamy, JCH Chiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The southern westerly wind belt (SWW) interacts with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and
strongly impacts the Southern Ocean carbon budget, and Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics …

Two annual cycles of the Pacific cold tongue under orbital precession

JCH Chiang, AR Atwood, DJ Vimont, PA Nicknish… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The Pacific cold tongue annual cycle in sea surface temperature is presumed to be driven by
Earth's axial tilt,,,–(tilt effect), and thus its phasing should be fixed relative to the calendar …

Radiocarbon evidence for mid‐late Holocene changes in southwest Pacific Ocean circulation

AF Komugabe‐Dixson, SJ Fallon, SM Eggins… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Variability in the southwest (SW) Pacific Ocean circulation is influenced by the changes in
the South Pacific subtropical gyre and its western boundary current, the East Australian …