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The global monsoon across timescales: coherent variability of regional monsoons
State Key Laboratory of Mar. Geol., Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
B. Wang
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Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96825, USA
H. Cheng
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J. Fasullo
CAS/NCAR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 3090 Center Green Dr., Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Z. T. Guo
Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China
T. Kiefer
PAGES International Project Office, Zähringerstrasse 25, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Z. Y. Liu
Laboratory Climate, Ocean and Atmospheric Studies, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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This paper presents a millennial δ18O series and the reconstruction of the maximal temperature. The maximal replication and annual resolution have been obtained by using cohort sampling method. Three contrasted climatic periods have been identified: the medieval warm period (~997-1250; the warmest), the little ice age (~1450-1880) and the modern period (1970-2000) that is one of the fastest warming over the last millennium.
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Short summary
All regional monsoons belong to a cohesive global monsoon circulation system, albeit thateach regional subsystem has its own indigenous features. A comprehensive review of global monsoon variability reveals that regional monsoons can vary coherently across a range of timescales, from interannual up to orbital and tectonic. Study of monsoon variability from both global and regional perspectives is imperative and advantageous for integrated understanding of the modern and paleo-monsoon dynamics.
All regional monsoons belong to a cohesive global monsoon circulation system, albeit thateach...
