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 vegetation and climate dynamics of NE China based on the pollen record from Sihailongwan Maar Lake

M Stebich, K Rehfeld, F Schluetz, PE Tarasov… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
High-resolution palynological analysis on annually laminated sediments of Sihailongwan
Maar Lake (SHL) provides new insights into the Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics …

The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

Y Cai, L Tan, H Cheng, Z An, RL Edwards… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
Two stalagmites (C996-1 and C996-2) collected from the Jiuxian Cave in the Shaanxi
Province in central China have been studied with U-series dating and stable isotope …

Asynchronous evolution of the Indian and East Asian Summer Monsoon indicated by Holocene moisture patterns in monsoonal central Asia

Y Wang, X Liu, U Herzschuh - Earth-Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
The numerical meta-analysis of 92 proxy records (72 sites) of moisture and/or temperature
change confirms earlier findings that the dominant trends of climatic evolution in monsoonal …

Holocene vegetation history, precipitation changes and Indian Summer Monsoon evolution documented from sediments of **ngyun 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 **ngyun Lake, Yunnan Plateau, south‐west …

High resolution monsoon precipitation changes on southeastern Tibetan Plateau over the past 2300 years

L Tan, Y Cai, H Cheng, LR Edwards, J Lan… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Climate changes on Southeastern Tibetan Plateau have important impacts on
social and economic development, as well as the ecosystem of southwestern China and …

A dramatic climatic transition at~ 4000 cal. yr BP and its cultural responses in Chinese cultural domains

F Liu, Z Feng - The Holocene, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Our review of recently published climatic proxy sequences shows that the most dramatic
climate tranistion of the mid Holocene (~ 8500–~ 3500 cal. yr BP) occurred at the middle-to …

New insights on Chinese cave δ18O records and their paleoclimatic significance

X Liu, J Liu, S Chen, J Chen, X Zhang, J Yan… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, stalagmite oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) records have been widely used
to study the evolution of the paleomonsoon. Nevertheless, interpreting cave δ 18 O records …

Climatic fluctuations and early farming in West and East Asia

O Bar-Yosef - Current Anthropology, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper presents a Levantine model for the origins of cultivation of various wild plants as
motivated by the vagaries of the climatic fluctuation of the Younger Dryas within the context …

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 …