Liang Yi

TL;DR: Observations indicate that insolation, in part, sets the pace of the occurrence of millennial-scale events, including those associated with terminations and ‘unfinished terminations’.

TL;DR: In this paper, a high-resolution composite proxy record for the Indian Ocean summer monsoon spanning around 12,000 years based on the δ13C time series of both a single plant species (Carex mulieensis) remains cellulose and the total plant assemblage cellulose in the Hongyuan peat bog from the Tibet Plateau was presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the inverse phase variations between the East Asian and Indian Ocean summer monsoons on the interannual timescale result from the El Nino-Southern Oscillation activity in the tropical Pacific, which provides a new way for studying paleo-ENSO.

TL;DR: Speleothem oxygen isotope (δ18O) data from Bittoo cave, Northern India is used to reconstruct ISM variability over the past 280,000 years, supporting the view that the tropical-subtropical monsoon variability is driven directly by precession-induced changes in NHSI.

TL;DR: The data suggest that significant shifts in monsoon rainfall have occurred in concert with changes in the Northern Hemisphere temperatures and the discharges of the Himalayan rivers, suggesting a plausible role of climate change in shaping the important chapters of the history of human civilization in the Indian subcontinent.