Reconstructing chemical weathering, physical erosion and monsoon intensity since 25 Ma in the northern South China Sea: a review of competing proxies

PD Clift, S Wan, J Blusztajn - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the changing strength of the East Asian summer monsoon has been
controversial because different proxies, many being indirect measures of rainfall, tell …

Chinese cave records and the East Asia summer monsoon

Z Liu, X Wen, EC Brady, B Otto-Bliesner, G Yu… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Speleothem records in southeastern China provide key evidence for past environmental
changes. However, the climatic interpretation of these proxies has remained a great …

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 …

Global monsoon dynamics and climate change

A Zhisheng, W Guoxiong, L Jianping… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

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

H Zhang, ML Griffiths, JCH Chiang, W Kong, S Wu… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Speleothem oxygen isotope records have revolutionized our understanding of the paleo
East Asian monsoon, yet there is fundamental disagreement on what they represent in terms …

The chemical index of alteration (CIA) as a proxy for climate change during glacial-interglacial transitions in Earth history

P Wang, Y Du, W Yu, TJ Algeo, Q Zhou, Y Xu, L Qi… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The glacial-interglacial transitions of ice ages are associated with large, rapid changes in
climate, which potentially can be reconstructed from stratigraphic profiles of the chemical …

Holocene East Asian summer monsoon records in northern China and their inconsistency with Chinese stalagmite δ18O records

J Liu, J Chen, X Zhang, Y Li, Z Rao, F Chen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Monsoon precipitation over China exhibits large spatial differences. It has been found that a
significantly enhanced East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is characterized by increased …

Millennial-and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years

Y Wang, H Cheng, RL Edwards, X Kong, X Shao… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
High-resolution speleothem records from China have provided insights into the factors that
control the strength of the East Asian monsoon,,,. Our understanding of these factors …

Ice age terminations

H Cheng, RL Edwards, WS Broecker, GH Denton… - science, 2009 - science.org
230Th-dated oxygen isotope records of stalagmites from Sanbao Cave, China, characterize
Asian Monsoon (AM) precipitation through the ends of the third-and fourthmost recent ice …

Chinese stalagmite δ18O controlled by changes in the Indian monsoon during a simulated Heinrich event

FSR Pausata, DS Battisti, KH Nisancioglu… - Nature Geoscience, 2011 - nature.com
Carbonate cave deposits in India and China are assumed to record the intensity of monsoon
precipitation, because the δ18O of the carbonate tracks the isotopic signature of …