https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/391517
Title: | Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y | Authors: | CHUAN-CHOU SHEN | Keywords: | Indian summer monsoon; Precipitation glacial-interglacial; Stalagmite; δ18O | Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal Volume: | 112 | Journal Issue: | 10 | Start page/Pages: | 2954-2959 | Source: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Abstract: | A speleothem δ18O record from Xiaobailong cave in southwest China characterizes changes in summer monsoon precipitation in Northeastern India, the Himalayan foothills, Bangladesh, and northern Indochina over the last 252 kyr. This record is dominated by 23-kyr precessional cycles punctuated by prominent millennial-scale oscillations that are synchronous with Heinrich events in the North Atlantic. It also shows clear glacial-interglacial variations that are consistent with marine and other terrestrial proxies but are different from the cave records in East China. Corroborated by isotope-enabled global circulation modeling, we hypothesize that this disparity reflects differing changes in atmospheric circulation and moisture trajectories associated with climate forcing as well as with associated topographic changes during glacial periods, in particular redistribution of air mass above the growing ice sheets and the exposure of the "land bridge" in the Maritime continents in the western equatorial Pacific. © 2015, National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. |
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DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1424035112 | SDG/Keyword: | isotope; Article; Bangladesh; cave; China; climate; climate change; glacial period; ice sheet; India; interglacial; last glacial maximum; loess; marine environment; moisture; monsoon; oscillation; Pacific Ocean; precipitation; priority journal; rock; seasonal variation; terrestrial species; topography |
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