Westerlies Asia and monsoonal Asia: Spatiotemporal differences in climate change and possible mechanisms on decadal to sub-orbital timescales

F Chen, J Chen, W Huang, S Chen, X Huang, L **… - Earth-science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The 'westerlies-dominated climatic regime'(WDCR) in the present interglacial period was
proposed because precipitation/moisture variations between arid central Asia and mid …

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 …

Collapse of the Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in the lower Yangtze region in response to climate change

H Zhang, H Cheng, A Sinha, C Spötl, Y Cai, B Liu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The Liangzhu culture in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) was among the world's most
advanced Neolithic cultures. Archeological evidence suggests that the Liangzhu ancient city …

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 …

Structure and origin of Holocene cold events

H Wanner, O Solomina, M Grosjean, SP Ritz… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The present interglacial, the Holocene, spans the period of the last 11,700 years. It has
sustained the growth and development of modern society. The millennial-scale decreasing …

A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon

H Zhang, X Zhang, Y Cai, A Sinha, C Spötl… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conflicting reconstructions of Holocene variability of the East Asian summer monsoon
(EASM) from speleothem versus other types of proxy records have yielded widely divergent …

Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y

Y Cai, IY Fung, RL Edwards, Z An, H Cheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
A speleothem δ18O record from **aobailong cave in southwest China characterizes
changes in summer monsoon precipitation in Northeastern India, the Himalayan foothills …

Hydroclimatic changes in China and surroundings during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age: spatial patterns and possible mechanisms

J Chen, F Chen, S Feng, W Huang, J Liu… - Quaternary science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Investigating hydroclimatic changes during key periods such as the Medieval Climate
Anomaly (MCA, 1000–1300 AD) and the Little Ice Age (LIA, 1400–1900 AD) is of …

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 …

Main controls on the stable carbon isotope composition of speleothems

J Fohlmeister, NRG Voarintsoa, FA Lechleitner… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The climatic controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition (δ 13 C) of speleothem
carbonate are less often discussed in the scientific literature in contrast to the frequently …