East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I

Published:2018-11-02 Issue:6414 Volume:362 Page:580-583
ISSN:0036-8075
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language:en
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Author:

Zhang Hongbin¹²^ORCID,Griffiths Michael L.³^ORCID,Chiang John C. H.⁴^ORCID,Kong Wenwen⁴^ORCID,Wu Shitou⁵⁶^ORCID,Atwood Alyssa⁴⁷^ORCID,Huang Junhua²,Cheng Hai⁸⁹^ORCID,Ning Youfeng⁸,Xie Shucheng¹¹⁰^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China.

2. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China.

3. Department of Environmental Science, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, USA.

4. Department of Geography and Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

5. Department of Geochemistry, Faculty of Geoscience and Geography, Georg-August University Goettingen, Goettingen 37077, Germany.

6. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China.

7. School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.

8. Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China.

9. Department of Earth Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

10. Department of Geography, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China.

Abstract

East Asian monsoon mysteries What exactly does the oxygen isotopic composition of speleothems tell us about the East Asian monsoon? They provide magnificent, detailed records of hydroclimate, but precisely what aspects of hydroclimate they record is unclear. Zhang et al. present data from two speleothems from central eastern China for the period from 21,000 to 10,000 years ago and suggest that the cause of the oxygen isotopic variability that they observe is more complex than simple changes in monsoon strength or intensity (see the Perspective by McGee). Alternatively, this variation may reflect the lengths of various phases of the monsoon and the regional heterogeneity of the East Asian hydroclimate. Science , this issue p. 580 ; see also p. 518

Funder

National Science Foundation

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chinese National Natural Science Foundation

National Bureau for Foreign Experts and Ministry of Education of China

Key R&D Project of Ministry of Science and Technology

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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