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 …

Milankovitch theory and monsoon

H Cheng, H Li, L Sha, A Sinha, Z Shi, Q Yin, Z Lu… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

F Chen, Q Xu, J Chen, HJB Birks, J Liu, S Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The lack of a precisely-dated, unequivocal climate proxy from northern China, where
precipitation variability is traditionally considered as an East Asian summer monsoon …

Quantification of Asian monsoon variability from 68 ka BP through pollen-based climate reconstruction

X Zhang, Z Zheng, K Huang, J Cheng, R Cheddadi… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The glacial-interglacial variability of precipitation and its driving mechanism in monsoonal
regions has long been a subject of debate. However, there are few records of quantitative …

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 …

Orbital-scale Asian summer monsoon variations: Paradox and exploration

H Cheng, H Zhang, Y Cai, Z Shi, L Yi, C Deng… - Science China Earth …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

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

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

[HTML][HTML] Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales

G Kathayat, H Cheng, A Sinha, C Spötl, RL Edwards… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The Indian summer monsoon (ISM) monsoon is critical to billions of people living in the
region. Yet, significant debates remain on primary ISM drivers on millennial-orbital …

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Past Interglacials Working Group of … - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high
sea level), end‐members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we identify …

Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage

C Zhao, EJ Rohling, Z Liu, X Yang, E Zhang, J Cheng… - Science Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Orbital-scale global climatic changes during the late Quaternary are dominated by high-
latitude influenced~ 100,000-year global ice-age cycles and monsoon influenced~ 23,000 …