Isotopes in the water cycle: regional-to global-scale patterns and applications

GJ Bowen, Z Cai, RP Fiorella… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Stable isotope ratios of hydrogen and oxygen have been applied to water cycle research for
over 60 years. Over the past two decades, however, new data, data compilations, and …

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 …

Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean–continent moisture transport

Z Jian, Y Wang, H Dang, M Mohtadi, Y Rosenthal… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) exerts a dominant role in global climate by
releasing huge amounts of water vapour and latent heat to the atmosphere and modulating …

Influence of atmospheric circulation on the stable isotope of precipitation in the monsoon margin region

S Lu, G Zhu, G Meng, X Lin, Y Liu, D Qiu, Y Xu… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
Precipitation stable isotope is a good medium for studying the water cycle and atmospheric
water vapor transport process. To better understand the influence and control mechanism of …

What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review

O Kwiecien, T Braun, CF Brunello, P Faulkner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

Deciphering local and regional hydroclimate resolves contradicting evidence on the Asian monsoon evolution

A Wolf, V Ersek, T Braun, AD French, D McGee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The winter and summer monsoons in Southeast Asia are important but highly variable
sources of rainfall. Current understanding of the winter monsoon is limited by conflicting …

ENSO variability reflected in precipitation oxygen isotopes across the Asian Summer Monsoon region

Z Cai, L Tian, GJ Bowen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Oxygen isotope signals (δ 18 O) from paleo-archives are important proxies for past Asian
Summer Monsoon (ASM) climate reconstruction. However, causes of interannual variation in …

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 …

End of Green Sahara amplified mid-to late Holocene megadroughts in mainland Southeast Asia

ML Griffiths, KR Johnson, FSR Pausata… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Between 5 and 4 thousand years ago, crippling megadroughts led to the disruption of
ancient civilizations across parts of Africa and Asia, yet the extent of these climate extremes …

Decoupled Asian monsoon intensity and precipitation during glacial-interglacial transitions on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Y Zheng, H Liu, H Yang, H Wang, W Zhao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The discrepancies among the variations in global ice volume, cave stalagmite δ18O and
rainfall reconstructed by cosmogenic 10Be tremendously restrain our understanding of the …