The Holocene Asian monsoon: links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate.
A 5-year-resolution absolute-dated oxygen isotope record from Dongge Cave, southern China, provides a continuous history of the Asian monsoon over the past 9000 years. Although the record broadly follows summer insolation, it is punctuated by eight weak monsoon events lasting approximately 1 to 5 centuries. One correlates with the "8200-year" event, another with the collapse of the Chinese Neolithic culture, and most with North Atlantic ice-rafting events. Cross-correlation of the decadal- to centennial-scale monsoon record with the atmospheric carbon-14 record shows that some, but not all, of the monsoon variability at these frequencies results from changes in solar output.
Wang
Yongjin
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College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China.
Cheng
Hai
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Edwards
R Lawrence
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He
Yaoqi
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Kong
Xinggong
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An
Zhisheng
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Wu
Jiangying
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Kelly
Megan J
MJ
Dykoski
Carolyn A
CA
Li
Xiangdong
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