The Indian Ocean Dipole in a warming world

G Wang, W Cai, A Santoso, N Abram, B Ng… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) strongly affects the climate of the Indo-Pacific.
Observations suggest a shift towards stronger and earlier positive IOD (pIOD) events …

Palaeoclimatic insights into forcing and response of monsoon rainfall

M Mohtadi, M Prange, S Steinke - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Monsoons are the dominant seasonal mode of climate variability in the tropics and are
critically important conveyors of atmospheric moisture and energy at a global scale …

[HTML][HTML] A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

D Kaufman, N McKay, C Routson, M Erb, B Davis… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into
the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon

AE Holbourn, W Kuhnt, SC Clemens… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The late Miocene offers the opportunity to assess the sensitivity of the Earth's climate to
orbital forcing and to changing boundary conditions, such as ice volume and greenhouse …

Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage

C Zhao, EJ Rohling, Z Liu, X Yang, E Zhang, J Cheng… - Science Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Orbital-scale global climatic changes during the late Quaternary are dominated by high-
latitude influenced~ 100,000-year global ice-age cycles and monsoon influenced~ 23,000 …

BAYSPLINE: A new calibration for the alkenone paleothermometer

JE Tierney, MP Tingley - Paleoceanography and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The alkenone‐based U proxy is a cornerstone of paleoclimatology, providing insight into the
temperature history of the Earth's surface ocean. Although the relationship between U and …

Climate change on the Tibetan Plateau in response to shifting atmospheric circulation since the LGM

L Zhu, X Lü, J Wang, P Peng, T Kasper, G Daut… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is primarily influenced by the northern hemispheric middle
latitude Westerlies and the Indian summer monsoon (ISM). The extent, long-distance effects …