The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues

PX Wang, B Wang, H Cheng, J Fasullo, ZT Guo… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present paper addresses driving mechanisms of global monsoon (GM) variability and
outstanding issues in GM science. This is the second synthesis of the PAGES GM Working …

A review of the South American monsoon history as recorded in stable isotopic proxies over the past two millennia

M Vuille, SJ Burns, BL Taylor, FW Cruz… - Climate of the …, 2012 - cp.copernicus.org
We review the history of the South American summer monsoon (SASM) over the past~ 2000
yr based on high-resolution stable isotope proxies from speleothems, ice cores and lake …

Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years

X Wang, RL Edwards, AS Auler, H Cheng, X Kong… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Reconstructing the history of tropical hydroclimates has been difficult, particularly for the
Amazon basin—one of Earth's major centres of deep atmospheric convection,. For example …

Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

H Cheng, A Sinha, FW Cruz, X Wang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Precise characterization of hydroclimate variability in Amazonia on various timescales is
critical to understanding the link between climate change and biodiversity. Here we present …

Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

PU Clark, JD Shakun, PA Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Deciphering the evolution of global climate from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum
approximately 19 ka to the early Holocene 11 ka presents an outstanding opportunity for …

The Global Paleomonsoon as seen through speleothem records from Asia and the Americas

H Cheng, A Sinha, X Wang, FW Cruz, RL Edwards - Climate dynamics, 2012 - Springer
The regional monsoons of the world have long been viewed as seasonal atmospheric
circulation reversal—analogous to a thermally-driven land-sea breeze on a continental …

Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome

AC Carnaval, E Waltari… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phylogeographic endemism, the degree to which the history of recently evolved lineages is
spatially restricted, reflects fundamental evolutionary processes such as cryptic divergence …

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: paleo-data synthesis

KE Kohfeld, RM Graham, AM De Boer, LC Sime… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Changes in the strength and position of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during the
Last Glacial cycle have been invoked to explain both millennial and glacial–interglacial …

Nature and causes of Quaternary climate variation of tropical South America

PA Baker, SC Fritz - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
This selective review of the Quaternary paleoclimate of the South American summer
monsoon (SASM) domain presents viewpoints regarding a range of key issues in the field …

Water‐stable isotopes in the LMDZ4 general circulation model: Model evaluation for present‐day and past climates and applications to climatic interpretations of …

C Risi, S Bony, F Vimeux… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We present simulations of water‐stable isotopes from the LMDZ general circulation model
(the LMDZ‐iso GCM) and evaluate them at different time scales (synoptic to interannual) …