The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

被引:1309
作者
Cheng, Hai [1 ,2 ]
Edwards, R. Lawrence [2 ]
Sinha, Ashish [3 ]
Spotl, Christoph [4 ]
Yi, Liang [5 ]
Chen, Shitao [6 ]
Kelly, Megan [2 ]
Kathayat, Gayatri [1 ]
Wang, Xianfeng [7 ]
Li, Xianglei [1 ]
Kong, Xinggong [6 ]
Wang, Yongjin [6 ]
Ning, Youfeng [1 ]
Zhang, Haiwei [1 ]
机构
[1] Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Inst Global Environm Change, Xian 710049, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Minnesota, Dept Earth Sci, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[3] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Dept Earth Sci, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[4] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Geol, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[5] Tongji Univ, State Key Lab Marine Geol, Shanghai 200092, Peoples R China
[6] Nanjing Normal Univ, Coll Geog Sci, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China
[7] Nanyang Technol Univ, Earth Observ Singapore, Singapore 639798, Singapore
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
MILLENNIAL-SCALE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; NORTH-ATLANTIC; GLACIAL CYCLES; DONGGE CAVE; RECORD; HOLOCENE; TRANSITIONS;
D O I
10.1038/nature18591
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Oxygen isotope records from Chinese caves characterize changes in both the Asian monsoon and global climate. Here, using our new speleothem data, we extend the Chinese record to cover the full uranium/thorium dating range, that is, the past 640,000 years. The record's length and temporal precision allow us to test the idea that insolation changes caused by the Earth's precession drove the terminations of each of the last seven ice ages as well as the millennia-long intervals of reduced monsoon rainfall associated with each of the terminations. On the basis of our record's timing, the terminations are separated by four or five precession cycles, supporting the idea that the '100,000-year' ice age cycle is an average of discrete numbers of precession cycles. Furthermore, the suborbital component of monsoon rainfall variability exhibits power in both the precession and obliquity bands, and is nearly in anti-phase with summer boreal insolation. These observations indicate that insolation, in part, sets the pace of the occurrence of millennial-scale events, including those associated with terminations and 'unfinished terminations'.
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页码:640 / +
页数:19
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