Teleconnections Between the Subtropical Monsoons and High-Latitude Climates During the Last Deglaciation
The major deglacial intensification of the southwest monsoon occurred at 11,450 ± 150 calendar years before present, synchronous with a major climate transition as recorded in Greenland ice. An earlier event of monsoon intensification at 16,000 ± 150 calendar years before present occurred at the end...
| Published in: | Science |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1996
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.272.5261.526 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.272.5261.526 |
| Summary: | The major deglacial intensification of the southwest monsoon occurred at 11,450 ± 150 calendar years before present, synchronous with a major climate transition as recorded in Greenland ice. An earlier event of monsoon intensification at 16,000 ± 150 calendar years before present occurred at the end of Heinrich layer 1 in the Atlantic and parallels the initial rise in global atmospheric methane concentrations and the first abrupt climate changes in the Antarctic; thus, the evolution of the monsoonal and high-latitude climates show teleconnections but hemispheric asymmetries. Superimposed on abrupt events, the monsoonal climate shows high-frequency variability of 1785-, 1450-, and 1150-year oscillations, and abrupt climate change seems to occur when at least two of these oscillations are in phase. |
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