Abstract

Understanding the dynamics between the East Asian summer (EASM) and winter monsoon (EAWM) is needed to predict their variability under future global warming scenarios. Here, we investigate the relationship between EASM and EAWM as well as the mechanisms driving their variability during the last 10,000 years by stacking marine and terrestrial (non-speleothem) proxy records from the East Asian realm. This provides a regional and proxy independent signal for both monsoonal systems. The respective signal was subsequently analysed using a linear regression model. We find that the phase relationship between EASM and EAWM is not time-constant and significantly depends on orbital configuration changes. In addition, changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation, Arctic sea-ice coverage, El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Sun Spot numbers contributed to millennial scale changes in the EASM and EAWM during the Holocene. We also argue that the bulk signal of monsoonal activity captured by the stacked non-speleothem proxy records supports the previously argued bias of speleothem climatic archives to moisture source changes and/or seasonality.

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Title
A tale of shifting relations: East Asian summer and winter monsoon variability during the Holocene
Author
Kaboth-Bahr Stefanie 1 ; Bahr André 2 ; Zeeden, Christian 3 ; Yamoah, Kweku A 4 ; Ahmad, Lone Mahjoor 5 ; Chih-Kai, Chuang 6 ; Löwemark Ludvig 6 ; Kuo-Yen, Wei 6 

 University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam-Golm, Germany (GRID:grid.11348.3f) (ISNI:0000 0001 0942 1117) 
 Heidelberg University, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany (GRID:grid.7700.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 2190 4373) 
 LIAG, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany (GRID:grid.461783.f) (ISNI:0000 0001 0073 2402) 
 University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Edgbaston, UK (GRID:grid.6572.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 7486) 
 National Taiwan University, High-Precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Taipei, Taiwan ROC (GRID:grid.19188.39) (ISNI:0000 0004 0546 0241) 
 National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences, Taipei City, Taiwan ROC (GRID:grid.19188.39) (ISNI:0000 0004 0546 0241) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2505254426
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.