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 …

Monsoons, ITCZs, and the concept of the global monsoon

R Geen, S Bordoni, DS Battisti, K Hui - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's tropical and subtropical rainbands, such as Intertropical Convergence Zones (ITCZs)
and monsoons, are complex systems, governed by both large‐scale constraints on the …

[HTML][HTML] The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

H Cheng, RL Edwards, A Sinha, C Spötl, L Yi, S Chen… - nature, 2016 - nature.com
Oxygen isotope records from Chinese caves characterize changes in both the Asian
monsoon and global climate. Here, using our new speleothem data, we extend the Chinese …

Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics

H Cheng, H Zhang, C Spötl, J Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Younger Dryas (YD), arguably the most widely studied millennial-scale extreme climate
event, was characterized by diverse hydroclimate shifts globally and severe cooling at high …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] 中国石笋古气候研究的回顾与展望

程海, 张海伟, 赵景耀, 李瀚瑛, 宁有丰… - 中国科学: 地球 …, 2019 - academia.edu
摘要石笋是洞穴次生碳酸盐的一种, 是由含Ca 2+ 和HCO3 的洞穴滴水滴到洞穴地面后,
水中碳酸钙在一定条件下过饱和析出, 经年复一年沉积形成. 石笋是古气候研究的重要地质材料 …

Quantification of Asian monsoon variability from 68 ka BP through pollen-based climate reconstruction

X Zhang, Z Zheng, K Huang, J Cheng, R Cheddadi… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The glacial-interglacial variability of precipitation and its driving mechanism in monsoonal
regions has long been a subject of debate. However, there are few records of quantitative …

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 …

The Indian monsoon variability and civilization changes in the Indian subcontinent

G Kathayat, H Cheng, A Sinha, L Yi, X Li, H Zhang… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The vast Indo-Gangetic Plain in South Asia has been home to some of the world's oldest
civilizations, whose fortunes ebbed and flowed with time—plausibly driven in part by shifts in …

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 …