Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records
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, they are also recorded in...
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Abrupt climate transitions Chinese loess sequences Millennial scale variability Grain size East Asian Monsoon stepwise increasing of the monsoon intensity Abrupt climate transitions Chinese loess sequences Millennial scale variability Grain size East Asian Monsoon stepwise increasing of the monsoon intensity [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environment [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes |
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Abrupt climate transitions Chinese loess sequences Millennial scale variability Grain size East Asian Monsoon stepwise increasing of the monsoon intensity Abrupt climate transitions Chinese loess sequences Millennial scale variability Grain size East Asian Monsoon stepwise increasing of the monsoon intensity [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environment [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes Rousseau, Denis-Didier Bagniewski, Witold Sun, Youbin Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records |
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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, they are also recorded in different archives on the land, among which Chinese loess and speleothem records are of particular interest. These records effectively document orbital-to-millennial monsoon variability during the Pleistocene, but the dominant periodicity revealed by proxy records from these two types of archives is different. Nevertheless, millennial-scale oscillations recorded in Chinese loess and speleothem records seem highly similar over the last several glacial cycles. Such millennial fluctuations can be of varying amplitudes, and either more or less abrupt depending on the type of record. The observed abruptness usually depends on the sedimentation rates and sampling resolution in the loess and speleothem records. However, it can also be refined by comparisons with multiple physicochemical and isotopic proxies. Here, we apply a robust statistical method to detect abrupt changes in loess grain size and speleothem δ18O records. As a first step, we compared two reference records (i.e. the NGRIP ice-core and the Hulu speleothem δ18O records) of abrupt climate change to verify the robustness of our method in detecting the well-recognized abrupt events during the last glaciation. This result allows us, in a second step, to compare two high-resolution loess grain-size stacks (i.e. the CHILOMOS, and the LGS640 datasets) with the Chinese speleothem composite record built from Hulu and Sanbao records. Although visually observed rapid grain-size variations were previously interpreted as representing millennial-scale variations, our statistical analysis confirms that whether these abrupt climate changes can be robustly identified is highly dependent on the time resolution of the studied records. In a third step, we detected abrupt ... |
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Columbia University New York Géosciences Montpellier Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Université de Montpellier (UM) Silesian University of Technology 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) State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xi’an European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program |
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Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records |
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Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records |
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Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records |
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Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records |
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Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records |
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detection of abrupt changes in east asian monsoon from chinese loess and speleothem records |
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ftunimontpellier:oai:HAL:hal-04080344v1 2023-11-05T03:42:39+01:00 Detection of abrupt changes in East Asian monsoon from Chinese loess and speleothem records Détection des changements brusques de la mousson d'Asie de l'Est à partir des archives chinoises de loess et de spéléothèmes Rousseau, Denis-Didier Bagniewski, Witold Sun, Youbin Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Columbia University New York Géosciences Montpellier Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Université de Montpellier (UM) Silesian University of Technology 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) State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xi’an European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program 2023-04-21 https://hal.science/hal-04080344 https://hal.science/hal-04080344/document https://hal.science/hal-04080344/file/Abrupt_Changes_Chinese_loess_Vlongue_V10-Hal.pdf en eng HAL CCSD hal-04080344 https://hal.science/hal-04080344 https://hal.science/hal-04080344/document https://hal.science/hal-04080344/file/Abrupt_Changes_Chinese_loess_Vlongue_V10-Hal.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess https://hal.science/hal-04080344 2023 Abrupt climate transitions Chinese loess sequences Millennial scale variability Grain size East Asian Monsoon stepwise increasing of the monsoon intensity Abrupt climate transitions Chinese loess sequences Millennial scale variability Grain size East Asian Monsoon stepwise increasing of the monsoon intensity [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environment [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint Preprints, Working Papers, . 2023 ftunimontpellier 2023-10-10T22:34:20Z 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, they are also recorded in different archives on the land, among which Chinese loess and speleothem records are of particular interest. These records effectively document orbital-to-millennial monsoon variability during the Pleistocene, but the dominant periodicity revealed by proxy records from these two types of archives is different. Nevertheless, millennial-scale oscillations recorded in Chinese loess and speleothem records seem highly similar over the last several glacial cycles. Such millennial fluctuations can be of varying amplitudes, and either more or less abrupt depending on the type of record. The observed abruptness usually depends on the sedimentation rates and sampling resolution in the loess and speleothem records. However, it can also be refined by comparisons with multiple physicochemical and isotopic proxies. Here, we apply a robust statistical method to detect abrupt changes in loess grain size and speleothem δ18O records. As a first step, we compared two reference records (i.e. the NGRIP ice-core and the Hulu speleothem δ18O records) of abrupt climate change to verify the robustness of our method in detecting the well-recognized abrupt events during the last glaciation. This result allows us, in a second step, to compare two high-resolution loess grain-size stacks (i.e. the CHILOMOS, and the LGS640 datasets) with the Chinese speleothem composite record built from Hulu and Sanbao records. Although visually observed rapid grain-size variations were previously interpreted as representing millennial-scale variations, our statistical analysis confirms that whether these abrupt climate changes can be robustly identified is highly dependent on the time resolution of the studied records. In a third step, we detected abrupt ... Report ice core NGRIP Université de Montpellier: HAL |