TY - JOUR
T1 - The holocene Asian monsoon
T2 - Links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate
AU - Wang, Yongjin
AU - Cheng, Hai
AU - Edwards, Larry
AU - He, Yaoqi
AU - Kong, Xinggong
AU - An, Zhisheng
AU - Wu, Jiangying
AU - Kelly, Megan J.
AU - Dykoski, Carolyn A.
AU - Li, Xiangdong
PY - 2005/5/6
Y1 - 2005/5/6
N2 - 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 ∼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.
AB - 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 ∼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.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1106296
DO - 10.1126/science.1106296
M3 - Article
C2 - 15879216
AN - SCOPUS:20944452270
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 308
SP - 854
EP - 857
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5723
ER -