Shitao Chen

TL;DR: An absolute-dated oxygen isotope record from Sanbao cave, central China, is presented that completes a Chinese-cave-based record of the strength of the East Asian monsoon that covers the past 224,000 years, supporting the idea that tropical/subtropical monsoons respond dominantly and directly to changes in Northern Hemisphere summer insolation on orbital timescales.

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, high-resolution oxygen isotope (δ18O) profiles of six stalagmites from Sanbao Cave in Hubei province, central China, were used to provide a continuous history of East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) intensity for the period from 13-0.2 thousand years before present (ky BP, relative to AD 1950).

TL;DR: Isotopic data from stalagmites provide a high-resolution radiocarbon record for the entire range of the 14C dating method, using paired measurements of 14C/12C and thorium-230 (230Th) ages from two stalagMites from Hulu Cave, China.

TL;DR: It is found that the weakest monsoon closely associated with the warmest Antarctic event always occurred during the Terminations, which suggests that millennial-scale events play a key role in driving the deglaciation through positive feedbacks associated with enhanced upwelling and increasing CO2.