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 …

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 …

This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

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 …

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 …

XRF core scanners, with their rapid and non-destructive analytical capability, have now
been used for two decades in the analysis of marine sediments. Initially they were used to …

Monsoon has earned increasing attention from the climate community since the last century,
yet only recently have regional monsoons been recognized as a global system. It remains a …

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 …

South Asian precipitation amount and extreme variability are predicted to increase due to
thermodynamic effects of increased 21st-century greenhouse gases, accompanied by an …

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 …