Westerlies Asia and monsoonal Asia: Spatiotemporal differences in climate change and possible mechanisms on decadal to sub-orbital timescales

F Chen, J Chen, W Huang, S Chen, X Huang, L Jin… - Earth-science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The 'westerlies-dominated climatic regime'(WDCR) in the present interglacial period was
proposed because precipitation/moisture variations between arid central Asia and mid …

[HTML][HTML] Milankovitch theory and monsoon

H Cheng, H Li, L Sha, A Sinha, Z Shi, Q Yin, Z Lu… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
The widely accepted" Milankovitch theory" explains insolation-induced waxing and waning
of the ice sheets and their effect on the global climate on orbital timescales. In the past half …

A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon

H Zhang, X Zhang, Y Cai, A Sinha, C Spötl… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conflicting reconstructions of Holocene variability of the East Asian summer monsoon
(EASM) from speleothem versus other types of proxy records have yielded widely divergent …

Orbital-scale Asian summer monsoon variations: Paradox and exploration

H Cheng, H Zhang, Y Cai, Z Shi, L Yi, C Deng… - Science China Earth …, 2021 - Springer
The Asian summer monsoon (ASM) is a vast climate system, whose variability is critical to
the livelihoods of billions of people across the Asian continent. During the past half-century …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse manifestations of the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

Y Sun, Q Yin, M Crucifix, SC Clemens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) is widely recognized as a shift in paleoclimatic
periodicity from 41-to 100-kyr cycles, which largely reflects integrated changes in global ice …

Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene

Y Sun, JF McManus, SC Clemens, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abundant evidence from marine, ice-core and terrestrial records demonstrates that Earth's
climate has experienced co-evolution of orbital-and millennial-scale variability through the …

Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia

J Ruan, A Timmermann, P Raia, KS Yun, E Zeller… - Science, 2023 - science.org
When, where, and how often hominin interbreeding happened is largely unknown. We study
the potential for Neanderthal-Denisovan admixture using species distribution models that …

New insights on Chinese cave δ18O records and their paleoclimatic significance

X Liu, J Liu, S Chen, J Chen, X Zhang, J Yan… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, stalagmite oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) records have been widely used
to study the evolution of the paleomonsoon. Nevertheless, interpreting cave δ 18 O records …

[HTML][HTML] The Asian Summer Monsoon: Teleconnections and Forcing Mechanisms—A Review from Chinese Speleothem δ18O Records

H Zhang, Y Ait Brahim, H Li, J Zhao, G Kathayat, Y Tian… - Quaternary, 2019 - mdpi.com
Asian summer monsoon (ASM) variability significantly affects hydro-climate, and thus socio-
economics, in the East Asian region, where nearly one-third of the global population resides …

Monsoon controls on sediment generation and transport: Mass budget and provenance constraints from the Indus River catchment, delta and submarine fan over …

PD Clift, TN Jonell - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
How well do deep-sea sedimentary archives track erosion in upland sources, driven by
climatic change or tectonic forcing? Located on the western edge of South Asian monsoon …