Joint insolation and ice sheet/CO2 forcing on northern china precipitation during pliocene warmth

We demonstrate that the precipitation record on the Chinese Loess Plateau during the middle Piacenzian (3.264–3.025 Ma) has strong 20-kyr precessional cycles, challenging past knowledge about East Asian monsoon variations at the orbital timescales.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Science Bulletin
Main Authors:	Luo, Zeng, Nie, Junsheng, Moe, Annelisa Ehret, Heermance, Richard V., Garzione, Carmala, Herbert, Timothy D., Wang, Zhao, Li, Hua, Zhang, Rui, Zhao, Xiangming, Salzmann, Ulrich
Format:	Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2021
Subjects:	F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences Ice Sheet
Online Access:	https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/44710/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2020.10.025 https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/44710/1/Luo%20et%20al%20Science%20Bull%202020.pdf

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Summary:	We demonstrate that the precipitation record on the Chinese Loess Plateau during the middle Piacenzian (3.264–3.025 Ma) has strong 20-kyr precessional cycles, challenging past knowledge about East Asian monsoon variations at the orbital timescales.