The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues

PX Wang, B Wang, H Cheng, J Fasullo, ZT Guo… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Global monsoon dynamics and climate change

A Zhisheng, W Guoxiong, L Jian**… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

Robust increase of Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability under future warming in CMIP-6 models

A Katzenberger, J Schewe, J Pongratz… - Earth System …, 2020 - esd.copernicus.org
The Indian summer monsoon is an integral part of the global climate system. As its seasonal
rainfall plays a crucial role in India's agriculture and shapes many other aspects of life, it …

Asian monsoon failure and megadrought during the last millennium

ER Cook, KJ Anchukaitis, BM Buckley, RD D'Arrigo… - Science, 2010 - science.org
The Asian monsoon system affects more than half of humanity worldwide, yet the dynamical
processes that govern its complex spatiotemporal variability are not sufficiently understood …

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 …

Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history

F Chen, Z Yu, M Yang, E Ito, S Wang… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
We synthesize palaeoclimate records from the mid-latitude arid Asian region dominated
today by the Westerlies (“arid central Asia”(ACA)) to evaluate spatial and temporal patterns …

How old is the Asian monsoon system?—Palaeobotanical records from China

X Sun, P Wang - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2005 - Elsevier
The recent discovery of monsoon records in early Miocene raised a question of the time
when the East Asian monsoon system initiated. A distinguishing feature of the modern …

Moisture changes over the last millennium in arid central Asia: a review, synthesis and comparison with monsoon region

FH Chen, JH Chen, J Holmes, I Boomer… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
There is a strong chance that 20th century warming will cause differences in precipitation
distribution, hydrological cycle and effective moisture changes over the globe. Arid central …

Development of the East Asian monsoon: mineralogical and sedimentologic records in the northern South China Sea since 20 Ma

S Wan, A Li, PD Clift, JBW Stuut - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2007 - Elsevier
We here reconstruct the past change of the East Asian monsoon since 20 Ma using samples
from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1146 in the northern South China Sea based on a …

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 …