East Asian Monsoon
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Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia Open
The increasing severity of droughts/floods and worsening air quality from increasing aerosols in Asia monsoon regions are the two gravest threats facing over 60% of the world population living in Asian monsoon regions. These dual threats h…
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Quantifying the rise of the Himalaya orogen and implications for the South Asian monsoon Open
We reconstruct the rise of a segment of the southern flank of the Himalaya-Tibet orogen, to the south of the Lhasa terrane, using a paleoaltimeter based on paleoenthalpy encoded in fossil leaves from two new assemblages in southern Tibet (…
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Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO <sub>2</sub> Open
The monsoon has been ever present for ~56 Ma with the evolution controlled by paleogeography and is insensitive to changing CO 2 .
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The Indian monsoon variability and civilization changes in the Indian subcontinent Open
Speleothem records of Indian monsoon provide climatic context to societal changes in Indian subcontinent over the last 5700 years.
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Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y Open
Significance This paper presents a new long speleothem δ 18 O time series from Xiaobailong cave in southwest China that characterizes changes in a major branch of Indian summer monsoon precipitation over the last 252 kyrs. This record show…
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East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I Open
East Asian monsoon mysteries What exactly does the oxygen isotopic composition of speleothems tell us about the East Asian monsoon? They provide magnificent, detailed records of hydroclimate, but precisely what aspects of hydroclimate they…
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Impact of Arctic Oscillation on the East Asian climate: A review Open
The Arctic Oscillation (AO), which depicts a most dominant large-scale seesaw between the mid-latitudes and Arctic atmospheric mass, influences climate over Eurasia, North America, eastern Canada, North Africa, and the Middle East, especia…
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Comparison of <span>CMIP6</span> and <span>CMIP5</span> simulations of precipitation in China and the East Asian summer monsoon Open
We evaluate and compare the simulation of summer precipitation in China and the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) by eight climate models from Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) and the corresponding eight previous…
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Warming-induced northwestward migration of the East Asian monsoon rain belt from the Last Glacial Maximum to the mid-Holocene Open
Significance The southward displacement of the East Asian monsoon rain belt heightens concerns over the warming-induced drying of northern China. Paleovegetation change on the Chinese Loess Plateau provides insights into future climate cha…
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A 550,000-year record of East Asian monsoon rainfall from <sup>10</sup> Be in loess Open
Forcing the East Asian summer monsoon What factors have controlled the intensity of the East Asian summer monsoon over the recent geological past? To answer this key question requires a robust proxy for rainfall amounts. Beck et al. measur…
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Trends and oscillations in the Indian summer monsoon rainfall over the last two millennia Open
Observations show that summer rainfall over large parts of South Asia has declined over the past five to six decades. It remains unclear, however, whether this trend is due to natural variability or increased anthropogenic aerosol loading …
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Understanding Future Change of Global Monsoons Projected by CMIP6 Models Open
Projecting future change of monsoon rainfall is essential for water resource management, food security, disaster mitigation, and infrastructure planning. Here we assess the future change and explore the causes of the changes using 15 model…
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Monsoons Climate Change Assessment Open
Monsoon rainfall has profound economic and societal impacts for more than two-thirds of the global population. Here we provide a review on past monsoon changes and their primary drivers, the projected future changes, and key physical proce…
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Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon and its potential linkage with uplift of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau Open
Uplift of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau (HTP) and its linkage with the evolution of the Asian monsoon has been regarded as a typical example of a tectonic–climate linkage. Although this linkage remains unproven because of insufficient d…
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Northward extent of East Asian monsoon covaries with intensity on orbital and millennial timescales Open
Significance The magnitude, rate, and extent of past and future East Asian monsoon (EAM) rainfall fluctuations remain unresolved. Here, we present a rainfall reconstruction based on the surface area of a closed-basin lake located at the mo…
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Tibet, the Himalaya, Asian monsoons and biodiversity – In what ways are they related? Open
Prevailing dogma asserts that the uplift of Tibet, the onset of the Asian monsoon system and high biodiversity in southern Asia are linked, and that all occurred after 23 million years ago in the Neogene. Here, spanning the last 60 million…
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Insights into the historical assembly of East Asian subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests revealed by the temporal history of the tea family Open
Summary Subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests ( EBLF s) inhabit large areas of East Asia. Although paleovegetation reconstructions have revealed that the subtropical EBLFs existed in Southwest China during the Miocene, the historical c…
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Indian summer monsoon: Extreme events, historical changes, and role of anthropogenic forcings Open
The South Asian summer monsoon is a complex coupled human‐natural system that poses unique challenges for understanding its evolution alongside increasing anthropogenic activities. Rapid and substantial changes in land‐use, land‐management…
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Land–atmosphere–ocean coupling associated with the Tibetan Plateau and its climate impacts Open
This paper reviews recent advances regarding land–atmosphere–ocean coupling associated with the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and its climatic impacts. Thermal forcing over the TP interacts strongly with that over the Iranian Plateau, forming a cou…
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Transport of chemical tracers from the boundary layer to stratosphere associated with the dynamics of the Asian summer monsoon Open
Chemical transport associated with the dynamics of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) system is investigated using model output from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model run in specified …
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Efficient transport of tropospheric aerosol into the stratosphere via the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone Open
Significance Nonvolcanic stratospheric aerosols account for 20% of the radiative forcing of the entire atmospheric aerosol system since 1850. The Asian summer monsoon (ASM) effectively pumps Asian pollutants to the upper troposphere and lo…
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Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years Open
Significance The variability of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) is important for the functioning of ecological and societal systems at regional to continental scales, but the long-term evolution and interannual variability of this system is…
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A 12-year high-resolution climatology of atmospheric water transport over the Tibetan Plateau Open
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays a key role in the water cycle of high Asia and its downstream regions. The respective influence of the Indian and East Asian summer monsoon on TP precipitation and regional water resources, together with the …
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Effects of large-scale deforestation on precipitation in the monsoon regions: Remote versus local effects Open
Significance Biogeophysical effects such as albedo and evapotranspiration changes due to deforestation were shown by several studies in the past to exert strong influence on local surface temperatures. In this study, we assess the remote v…
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IMDAA: High Resolution Satellite-era Reanalysis for the Indian Monsoon Region Open
A high resolution regional reanalysis of the Indian Monsoon Data Assimilation and Analysis (IMDAA) project is made available to researchers for deeper understanding of the Indian monsoon and its variability. This 12 km resolution reanalysi…
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Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation Open
Pan-Asian monsoon water isotope variability is found accompanied by a continental-scale hydroclimate footprint.
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Correlation and anti-correlation of the East Asian summer and winter monsoons during the last 21,000 years Open
Understanding the past significant changes of the East Asia Summer Monsoon (EASM) and Winter Monsoon (EAWM) is critical for improving the projections of future climate over East Asia. One key issue that has remained outstanding from the pa…
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Understanding the Interdecadal Variability of East Asian Summer Monsoon Precipitation: Joint Influence of Three Oceanic Signals Open
East Asian summer monsoon precipitation (EASMP) features complicated interdecadal variability with multiple time periods and spatial patterns. Using century-long datasets of HadISST, CRU precipitation, and the ECMWF twentieth-century reana…
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Altered trends in carbon uptake in China's terrestrial ecosystems under the enhanced summer monsoon and warming hiatus Open
The carbon budgets in terrestrial ecosystems in China are strongly coupled with climate changes. Over the past decade, China has experienced dramatic climate changes characterized by enhanced summer monsoon and decelerated warming. However…
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Unraveling El Niño's impact on the East Asian Monsoon and Yangtze River summer flooding Open
Strong El Niño events are followed by massive summer monsoon flooding over the Yangtze River basin (YRB), home to about a third of the population in China. Although the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) provides the main source of season…