Chinese cave records and the East Asia summer monsoon

Z Liu, X Wen, EC Brady, B Otto-Bliesner, G Yu… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Speleothem records in southeastern China provide key evidence for past environmental
changes. However, the climatic interpretation of these proxies has remained a great …

Holocene East Asian summer monsoon records in northern China and their inconsistency with Chinese stalagmite δ18O records

J Liu, J Chen, X Zhang, Y Li, Z Rao, F Chen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Monsoon precipitation over China exhibits large spatial differences. It has been found that a
significantly enhanced East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is characterized by increased …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Climatic and environmental controls on speleothem oxygen-isotope values

MS Lachniet - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Variations in speleothem oxygen-isotope values (δ18O) result from a complicated interplay
of environmental controls and processes in the ocean, atmosphere, soil zone, epikarst, and …

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 …

Holocene vegetation history, precipitation changes and Indian Summer Monsoon evolution documented from sediments of Xingyun Lake, south‐west China

F Chen, X Chen, J Chen, A Zhou… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a pollen‐based precipitation reconstruction and multi‐proxy records from a 485‐
cm‐long sequence from a sediment core from Xingyun Lake, Yunnan Plateau, south‐west …

Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period

EC Corrick, RN Drysdale, JC Hellstrom, E Capron… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period have been detected in a global array of
palaeoclimate records, but our understanding of their absolute timing and regional …

Correlation and anti-correlation of the East Asian summer and winter monsoons during the last 21,000 years

X Wen, Z Liu, S Wang, J Cheng, J Zhu - Nature Communications, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the past significant changes of the East Asia Summer Monsoon (EASM) and
Winter Monsoon (EAWM) is critical for improving the projections of future climate over East …