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Decoupling of stalagmite-derived Asian summer monsoon records from North Atlantic temperature change during marine oxygen isotope stage 5d

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Houyun Zhou ,
Jianxin Zhao ,
Pingzhong Zhang ,
Chuan-Chou Shen ,
Baoquan Chi ,
Yuexing Feng ,
Yin Lin ,
Huazheng Guan  and
Chen-Feng You
Houyun Zhou*
Affiliation:
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
Jianxin Zhao
Affiliation:
Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
Pingzhong Zhang
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems of Ministry of Education, College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Chuan-Chou Shen
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Republic of China
Baoquan Chi
Affiliation:
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China The Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Yuexing Feng
Affiliation:
Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
Yin Lin
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Republic of China
Huazheng Guan
Affiliation:
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China The Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Chen-Feng You
Affiliation:
The Earth Dynamic System Research Center, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan, Republic of China
*
*Corresponding author. Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. No. 511, Kehua Street, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, 510640, China. Fax: +86 20 8529 0130. E-mail address:hyzhou@gig.ac.cn (H. Zhou).
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Abstract

The Asian monsoon is an important component of the global climate system. Seasonal variations in wind, rainfall, and temperature associated with the Asian monsoon systems affect a vast expanse of tropical and subtropical Asia. Speleothem-derived summer monsoon variation in East Asia was previously found to be closely associated with millennial-scale change in temperature in the North Atlantic region between 75 and 10 ka. New evidence recovered from East Asia, however, suggests that the teleconnection between summer monsoon in East Asia and temperature change in the North Atlantic region may have significantly reduced during 120 to ~ 110 ka, a period directly after the full last interglaciation and corresponding roughly to marine oxygen isotope stage 5d. This reduction may be due to the low ice volume in the North Hemisphere at that time, which makes the millennial-scale change in temperature in the North Atlantic region less effective in influencing the Asian summer monsoon. This is important for investigating the mechanisms controlling the Asian summer monsoon and the paleoclimatic teleconnection between East Asia and the North Atlantic region, and for predicting monsoon-associated precipitation in East Asia under a global-warming trend.

Keywords

Asian monsoonNorth AtlanticStalagmitePaleoclimateMillennial-scale eventDecouplingTeleconnectionMarine oxygen isotope stage 5d
Type
Original Articles
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Quaternary Research , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , September 2008 , pp. 315 - 321
Copyright
University of Washington

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