Decoupled warming and monsoon precipitation in East Asia over the last deglaciation

• Published in: Earth and planetary science letters Vol. 301; no. 1-2; pp. 256 - 264
• Main Authors: Peterse, Francien, Prins, Maarten A., Beets, Christiaan J., Troelstra, Simon R., Zheng, Hongbo, Gu, Zhaoyan, Schouten, Stefan, Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 03.01.2011
• Subjects: air temperature; Antarctica; Back propagation; branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) membrane lipid; caves; China; climate; deglaciation; East Asia; East Asian monsoon; fossils; Insolation; isotopes; lipids; Loess; monsoon season; Monsoons; oxygen; paleoclimate; permafrost; phytoliths; pollen; Precipitation; Reconstruction; soil bacteria; soil formation; solar radiation; South America; Southern Africa; Summer; South America; Antarctica; China; Southern Africa; China, People's Rep., Loess Plateau; Africa; China, People's Rep; East Asian monsoon; air temperature; deglaciation; branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) membrane lipid; paleoclimate; loess
• ISSN: 0012-821X; 1385-013X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.010

Our understanding of the continental climate development in East Asia is mainly based on loess–paleosol sequences and summer monsoon precipitation reconstructions based on oxygen isotopes (δ18O) of stalagmites from several Chinese caves. Based on these records, it is thought that East Asian Summer M...