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 …

Recurrence plots for the analysis of complex systems

N Marwan, MC Romano, M Thiel, J Kurths - Physics reports, 2007 - Elsevier
Recurrence is a fundamental property of dynamical systems, which can be exploited to
characterise the system's behaviour in phase space. A powerful tool for their visualisation …

Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon system: state of the art and outstanding issues

P Wang, S Clemens, L Beaufort, P Braconnot… - Quaternary Science …, 2005 - Elsevier
The Asian monsoon is comprised of the Indian and East Asian subsystems. These two
components are linked to one another in varying degrees by regions of strong sensible …

El Niño variability off Peru during the last 20,000 years

B Rein, A Lückge, L Reinhardt, F Sirocko… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Here we present a high‐resolution marine sediment record from the El Niño region off the
coast of Peru spanning the last 20,000 years. Sea surface temperature, photosynthetic …

El Nino-like pattern in ice age tropical Pacific sea surface temperature

A Koutavas, J Lynch-Stieglitz, TM Marchitto Jr… - Science, 2002 - science.org
Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the cold tongue of the eastern equatorial Pacific exert
powerful controls on global atmospheric circulation patterns. We examined climate …

The Pliocene paradox (mechanisms for a permanent El Niño)

AV Fedorov, PS Dekens, M McCarthy, AC Ravelo… - Science, 2006 - science.org
During the early Pliocene, 5 to 3 million years ago, globally averaged temperatures were
substantially higher than they are today, even though the external factors that determine …

Global monsoon in a geological perspective

PX Wang - Chinese Science Bulletin, 2009 - Springer
Monsoon is now considered as a global system rather than regional phenomena only. For
over 300 years, monsoon has been viewed as a gigantic land-sea breeze, but now satellite …

Zinc isotope variations in deep-sea carbonates from the eastern equatorial Pacific over the last 175 ka

S Pichat, C Douchet, F Albarède - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
The carbonate fraction of sediment core ODP 849, leg 138, located in the eastern equatorial
Pacific, mostly consisting of coccoliths, was separated and analyzed for its Zn isotopic …

Late Pleistocene and Holocene drought events at Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile

MH Marshall, HF Lamb, D Huws, SJ Davies… - Global and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Magnetic and geochemical core data spanning the last 17,000 years are correlated with
new seismic stratigraphy from Lake Tana, Ethiopia, to infer past lake-level change and …

The South China sea: paleoceanography and sedimentology

Z Ding - 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The South China Sea is the largest low‐latitude marginal sea on the globe. For a long time,
researchers from various fields have been curious about the sea. For instance, geologists …