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DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116882
	Asian monsoon evolution linked to Pacific temperature gradients since the Late Miocene
	Lu J.; Yang H.; Griffiths M.L.; Burls N.J.; Xiao G.; Yang J.; Wang J.K.; Johnson K.R.; Xie S.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0012821X
卷号	563
英文摘要	Considerable uncertainty remains over the nature and causes(s) of East Asian monsoon evolution since the Late Miocene, a significantly warmer period characterized by substantially weaker meridional and zonal Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) gradients than today and therefore regarded as a potential analog for current and future global warming. However, the extent to which these temperature gradients impacted rainfall patterns across East Asia, and particularly the northern extent of the monsoon domain, remains controversial. Here we present the first hydrological record extending back eight million years (Ma) for North China Plain derived from organic biomarkers preserved in a terrestrial sediment sequence. Our record shows a significant increase in monsoon rainfall during the Early Pliocene (∼4.2-4.5 Ma), coincident with strengthening of Pacific meridional and zonal SST gradients, and the eastern equatorial Pacific cold tongue. This marked intensification of the monsoon rainfall in northern China is also observed in paleoclimate archives from southern Asia, but anti-phased with those from central-eastern China (including southern China), indicating a ‘tripole-like’ rainfall pattern over East Asia. Through a set of climate model experiments, we show that this redistribution of monsoon rainfall across East Asia during the Early Pliocene (5.33-3.6 Ma) was likely due to an equatorward contraction of the western Pacific warm pool, reduced summer convection in the western subtropical Pacific, and the strengthening of the Hadley and Walker circulations. Our study thus highlights the strong influence of Pacific Ocean temperature gradients on East Asian hydroclimate. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	Asian monsoon climate model microbial biomarkers paleohydrology Pliocene
英文关键词	Atmospheric thermodynamics; Biomarkers; Global warming; Oceanography; Rain; Surface waters; Thermal gradients; Asian monsoon; East Asia; Late Miocene; Microbial biomarker; Monsoon evolution; Monsoon rainfall; Paleo-hydrology; Pliocene; Rainfall patterns; Sea Surface Temperature gradients; Climate models; biomarker; climate modeling; global warming; Hadley cell; Miocene; monsoon; paleohydrology; paleotemperature; Pliocene; rainfall; sea surface temperature; temperature gradient; Walker circulation; China; North China Plain; Pacific Ocean
语种	英语
来源期刊	Earth and Planetary Science Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/203199
作者单位	State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China; Department of Environmental Science, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, United States; Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Earth Sciences, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States; Tianjin Center of China Geological Survey, Tianjin, 300170, China; Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lu J.,Yang H.,Griffiths M.L.,et al. Asian monsoon evolution linked to Pacific temperature gradients since the Late Miocene[J],2021,563.
APA	Lu J..,Yang H..,Griffiths M.L..,Burls N.J..,Xiao G..,...&Xie S..(2021).Asian monsoon evolution linked to Pacific temperature gradients since the Late Miocene.Earth and Planetary Science Letters,563.
MLA	Lu J.,et al."Asian monsoon evolution linked to Pacific temperature gradients since the Late Miocene".Earth and Planetary Science Letters 563(2021).