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 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 …

The isotopes of precipitation have climate change signal in arid Central Asia

G Zhu, Y Liu, L Wang, L Sang, K Zhao, Z Zhang… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global climate change varies greatly in different regions, so it is necessary to
comprehensively analyze climate change in different regions through different indicators …

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 …

East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I

H Zhang, ML Griffiths, JCH Chiang, W Kong, S Wu… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Speleothem oxygen isotope records have revolutionized our understanding of the paleo
East Asian monsoon, yet there is fundamental disagreement on what they represent in terms …

Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation

C He, Z Liu, BL Otto-Bliesner, EC Brady, C Zhu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Oxygen isotope speleothem records exhibit coherent variability over the pan-Asian summer
monsoon (AM) region. The hydroclimatic representation of these oxygen isotope records for …

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 …

Chinese stalagmite paleoclimate researches: A review and perspective

H Cheng, H Zhang, J Zhao, H Li, Y Ning… - Science China Earth …, 2019 - Springer
Stalagmite is one kind of secondary carbonates formed in limestone caves (speleothem).
After cave water droplets containing Ca 2+ and HCO _3^-HCO 3− drip onto floor, carbonate …

Main controls on the stable carbon isotope composition of speleothems

J Fohlmeister, NRG Voarintsoa, FA Lechleitner… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The climatic controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition (δ 13 C) of speleothem
carbonate are less often discussed in the scientific literature in contrast to the frequently …

Holocene climate change in southern Oman deciphered by speleothem records and climate model simulations

Y Tian, D Fleitmann, Q Zhang, L Sha… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Qunf Cave oxygen isotope (δ18Oc) record from southern Oman is one of the most significant
of few Holocene Indian summer monsoon cave records. However, the interpretation of the …