HighResolution Records of MillennialScale East Asian Winter Monsoon in the Shelf Sea of Eastern China uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractThe evolution of the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) during the Holocene remains controversial because of the lack of reliable proxies. In this study, a link between crossfront transport and the EAWM was found in the North Yellow Sea, and the EAWM intensity could be imprinted in the leaked sediment, which permits reliable reconstruction of the EAWM on wellpreserved offshore deposition. By comparison with instrumental data, the wind speed of the EAWM since 4.4 ka was quantitatively reconstructed for the first time at high resolution (5yr). The results show that the EAWM gradually weakened in the midtolate Holocene, which was likely controlled by solar insolation, and that there has been a negative relationship between the EAWM and temperature on the centennial scale since 2.0ka; this relationship was reversed by increasing CO2 emissions during the Current Warm Period.

published proceedings

  • Geophysical Research Letters

author list (cited authors)

  • Shi, Y., Xu, X., Yang, G., Du, J., Lv, J., Zhang, S., ... Gao, J.

complete list of authors

  • Shi, Yong||Xu, Xiaomei||Yang, Guang||Du, Jiabi||Lv, Jixuan||Zhang, Shuo||Liu, Shengjing||Liu, Tao||Zhang, Zhenyu||Gao, Shu||Gao, Jianhua