In environmental magnetism, rock and mineral magnetic techniques are used to investigate
the formation, transportation, deposition, and postdepositional alterations of magnetic …

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

Whether during past climate stages or into a progressively warming world, changes in
precipitation constitute a key component of climatic change. Quantitative proxies for palaeo …

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 …

Stalagmite is one kind of secondary carbonates formed in limestone caves (speleothem).
After cave water droplets containing Ca 2+ and HCO _3^-HCO 3− drip onto floor, carbonate …

Atmospheric methane is an important greenhouse gas and a sensitive indicator of climate
change and millennial-scale temperature variability. Its concentrations over the past 650,000 …

Central Asia is currently a semiarid‐arid region, dominated by the Westerlies. It is important
to understand mechanisms of climate and precipitation changes here, as water availability in …

Oxygen isotope variations in Chinese stalagmites have been widely interpreted as a record
of the amount of East Asian summer monsoonal rainfall. This interpretation infers decreasing …

East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) precipitation received by northern China over the past
800 thousand years (ky) is characterized by dominant 100-ky periodicity, mainly attributed to …

The interpretation of the stalagmite δ 18 O record from southern China as an indicator of
East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) rainfall amount or intensity is strongly debated. Soil …