Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Rousseau, Denis-Didier, Bagniewski, Witold, Sun, Youbin
• Other Authors: Géosciences Montpellier, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Abrupt climate transitions; Chinese loess sequences; Millennial scale variability; Grain size; East Asian Monsoon; Stepwise increasing of the monsoon intensity; Earth Science; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Hulu; ice core; NGRIP
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-04195487; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104154

International audience Abrupt climate changes, especially at millennial timescales, have become a key topic in paleoclimatology because of their link with the tipping point theory and their extensive impacts on future climate scenarios. Although best documented in ice-cores and marine sediments, the...