A review of orbital-scale monsoon variability and dynamics in East Asia during the Quaternary

Y Sun, T Wang, Q Yin, A Lyu, M Crucifix, Y Cai… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quaternary monsoon changes in East Asia have been extensively investigated by proxy
records from continental and marine archives. However, these proxy indicators often show …

Two-stage mid-Brunhes climate transition and mid-Pleistocene human diversification

H Ao, EJ Rohling, C Stringer, AP Roberts… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Global climate shifted to markedly warmer interglacial conditions across the “mid-Brunhes
transition”(MBT,~ 400 ka). However, a global MBT synthesis that spans marine and …

A synthesis of monsoon exploration in the Asian marginal seas

PD Clift, C Betzler, SC Clemens, B Christensen… - Scientific …, 2022 - sd.copernicus.org
The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) conducted a series of expeditions
between 2013 and 2016 that were designed to address the development of monsoon …

Weakening of the South Asian summer monsoon linked to interhemispheric ice-sheet growth since 12 Ma

Z Yao, X Shi, Z Guo, X Li, BN Nath, C Betzler… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The evolution and driving mechanism of the South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) are still
poorly understood. We here present a 12-Myr long SASM record by analyzing the strontium …

A strong influence of the mid-Pleistocene transition on the monsoon and associated productivity in the Indian Ocean

SR Bhadra, R Saraswat - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The short-term variability in the Indian monsoon is well documented through instrumental
records and paleoclimatic studies of the recent geological past. However, the effect of mid …

Middle Pleistocene re-organization of Australian monsoon

L Gong, A Holbourn, W Kuhnt, B Opdyke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The sensitivity of the Australian Monsoon to changing climate boundary conditions remains
controversial due to limited understanding of forcing processes and past variability. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Intensified organic carbon burial on the Australian shelf after the Middle Pleistocene transition

G Auer, B Petrick, T Yoshimura, BL Mamo… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT) represents a major change in Earth's
climate state, exemplified by the switch from obliquity-dominated to∼ 100-kyr …

Anomalous widespread arid events in Asia over the past 550,000 years

IGF Carrasqueira, L Jovane, AW Droxler… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Records of element ratios obtained from the Maldives Inner Sea sediments provide a
detailed view on how the Indian Monsoon System has varied at high-resolution time scales …

Wind variability over the northern Indian Ocean during the past 4 million years–Insights from coarse aeolian dust (IODP exp. 359, site U1467, Maldives)

S Lindhorst, C Betzler, D Kroon - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2019 - Elsevier
The lithogenic fraction of carbonate drift sediments from IODP Exp. 359 Site U1467
(Maldives) provides a unique record of atmospheric dust transport over the northern Indian …

Geochemical records of the provenance and silicate weathering/erosion from the eastern Arabian Sea and their responses to the Indian summer monsoon since the …

H Chen, Z Xu, D Lim, PD Clift, F Chang… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a multiproxy record of Sr‐Nd isotopes and major and trace elements for clay‐
sized (< 2 μm) siliciclastic sediment fractions from the International Ocean Discovery …