Milankovitch theory and monsoon

H Cheng, H Li, L Sha, A Sinha, Z Shi, Q Yin, Z Lu… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
The widely accepted" Milankovitch theory" explains insolation-induced waxing and waning
of the ice sheets and their effect on the global climate on orbital timescales. In the past half …

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 …

Increased interglacial atmospheric CO2 levels followed the mid-Pleistocene Transition

M Yamamoto, SC Clemens, O Seki, Y Tsuchiya… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Atmospheric CO2 and polar ice volume have been strongly coupled over the past 805,000
years. However, the prior extent of coupling, during times of lower-amplitude ice-volume …

Remote and local drivers of Pleistocene South Asian summer monsoon precipitation: A test for future predictions

SC Clemens, M Yamamoto, K Thirumalai, L Giosan… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
South Asian precipitation amount and extreme variability are predicted to increase due to
thermodynamic effects of increased 21st-century greenhouse gases, accompanied by an …

Orbital Asian summer monsoon dynamics revealed using an isotope-enabled global climate model

T Caley, DM Roche, H Renssen - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
The Asian summer monsoon dynamics at the orbital scale are a subject of considerable
debate. The validity of Asian speleothem δ18O records as a proxy for summer monsoon …

A contracting intertropical convergence zone during the early Heinrich stadial 1

Y Yang, L Zhang, L Yi, F Zhong, Z Lu, S Wan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the fact that the response of tropical hydroclimate to North Atlantic cooling events
during the Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) has been extensively studied in African, South American …

Penultimate deglaciation Asian monsoon response to North Atlantic circulation collapse

JA Wassenburg, HB Vonhof, H Cheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
During glacial terminations, massive iceberg discharges and meltwater pulses in the North
Atlantic triggered a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) …

Southern Hemisphere forcing of South Asian monsoon precipitation over the past~ 1 million years

D Gebregiorgis, EC Hathorne, L Giosan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The orbital-scale timing of South Asian monsoon (SAM) precipitation is poorly understood.
Here we present new SST and seawater δ18O (δ18Osw) records from the Bay of Bengal …

South Asian summer monsoon variability during the last∼ 54 kyrs inferred from surface water salinity and river runoff proxies

D Gebregiorgis, EC Hathorne, AV Si**kumar… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The past variability of the South Asian Monsoon is mostly known from records of wind
strength over the Arabian Sea while high-resolution paleorecords from regions of strong …

Variation of the Asian summer monsoon since the last glacial-interglacial recorded in a stalagmite from southwest China

Y Wu, TY Li, TL Yu, CC Shen, CJ Chen, J Zhang… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
A number of studies proposed a close link between the climate changes in the Asian
summer monsoon (ASM), the Southern Hemisphere (SH), and high latitudes of the Northern …