Remote and local drivers of Pleistocene South Asian summer monsoon precipitation: A test for future predictions
South Asian precipitation amount and extreme variability are predicted to increase due to
thermodynamic effects of increased 21st-century greenhouse gases, accompanied by an
increased supply of moisture from the southern hemisphere Indian Ocean. We reconstructed
South Asian summer monsoon precipitation and runoff into the Bay of Bengal to assess the
extent to which these factors also operated in the Pleistocene, a time of large-scale natural
changes in carbon dioxide and ice volume. South Asian precipitation and runoff are strongly …
thermodynamic effects of increased 21st-century greenhouse gases, accompanied by an
increased supply of moisture from the southern hemisphere Indian Ocean. We reconstructed
South Asian summer monsoon precipitation and runoff into the Bay of Bengal to assess the
extent to which these factors also operated in the Pleistocene, a time of large-scale natural
changes in carbon dioxide and ice volume. South Asian precipitation and runoff are strongly …