during the Younger Dryas cold period. Several researchers have demonstrated a
weakening of intensity of the Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon during that period. However,
the exact characteristics of the East Asian Summer Monsoon still remain vague. Here we
present a late-glacial precipitation proxy record of the East Asian Summer Monsoon, based
on the peat cellulose δ13C found in Hani, Northeast China. Both the peat cellulose record …