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Glacial-interglacial Indian summer monsoon dynamics.
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PMID:  21817044     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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The modern Indian summer monsoon (ISM) is characterized by exceptionally strong interhemispheric transport, indicating the importance of both Northern and Southern Hemisphere processes driving monsoon variability. Here, we present a high-resolution continental record from southwestern China that demonstrates the importance of interhemispheric forcing in driving ISM variability at the glacial-interglacial time scale as well. Interglacial ISM maxima are dominated by an enhanced Indian low associated with global ice volume minima. In contrast, the glacial ISM reaches a minimum, and actually begins to increase, before global ice volume reaches a maximum. We attribute this early strengthening to an increased cross-equatorial pressure gradient derived from Southern Hemisphere high-latitude cooling. This mechanism explains much of the nonorbital scale variance in the Pleistocene ISM record.
Authors:
Zhisheng An; Steven C Clemens; Ji Shen; Xiaoke Qiang; Zhangdong Jin; Youbin Sun; Warren L Prell; Jingjia Luo; Sumin Wang; Hai Xu; Yanjun Cai; Weijian Zhou; Xiaodong Liu; Weiguo Liu; Zhengguo Shi; Libin Yan; Xiayun Xiao; Hong Chang; Feng Wu; Li Ai; Fengyan Lu
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Science (New York, N.Y.)     Volume:  333     ISSN:  1095-9203     ISO Abbreviation:  Science     Publication Date:  2011 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-08-05     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0404511     Medline TA:  Science     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  719-23     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China. anzs@loess.llqg.ac.cn
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Science. 2011 Aug 5;333(6043):706-8   [PMID:  21817038 ]

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