A review of the role of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in Atlantic multidecadal variability and associated climate impacts

R Zhang, R Sutton, G Danabasoglu… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
By synthesizing recent studies employing a wide range of approaches (modern
observations, paleo reconstructions, and climate model simulations), this paper provides a …

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 …

The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

H Cheng, RL Edwards, A Sinha, C Spötl, L Yi, S Chen… - nature, 2016 - nature.com
Oxygen isotope records from Chinese caves characterize changes in both the Asian
monsoon and global climate. Here, using our new speleothem data, we extend the Chinese …

Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics

H Cheng, H Zhang, C Spötl, J Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Younger Dryas (YD), arguably the most widely studied millennial-scale extreme climate
event, was characterized by diverse hydroclimate shifts globally and severe cooling at high …

[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 …

Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

H Cheng, RL Edwards, CC Shen, VJ Polyak… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
We have developed techniques for measuring 234U and 230Th on Faraday cups with
precisions of 1–3 epsilon units (1 ε-unit= 1 part in 104) using multi-collector inductively …

An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages

LB Railsback, PL Gibbard, MJ Head… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
A complete and optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages spanning the last
1.0 million years is proposed. Lettered substages for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 were …

Monsoons, ITCZs, and the concept of the global monsoon

R Geen, S Bordoni, DS Battisti, K Hui - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's tropical and subtropical rainbands, such as Intertropical Convergence Zones (ITCZs)
and monsoons, are complex systems, governed by both large‐scale constraints on the …

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 …

A 550,000-year record of East Asian monsoon rainfall from 10Be in loess

JW Beck, W Zhou, C Li, Z Wu, L White, F **an, X Kong… - science, 2018 - science.org
Cosmogenic 10Be flux from the atmosphere is a proxy for rainfall. Using this proxy, we
derived a 550,000-year-long record of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) rainfall from …