Xianfeng Wang

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: In this paper, the authors used multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) to measure the half-life of stalagmite stalagmites.

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: The sign of the correlation between the AM and temperature switches around 1960 is suggested, suggesting that anthropogenic forcing superseded natural forcing as the major driver of AM changes in the late 20th century.

TL;DR: Variability of the Asian Monsoon over the past 400,000 years correlates with the ends of glacial periods, and AM records for the past four glacial terminations can be precisely correlated with those from ice cores and marine sediments, establishing the timing and sequence of major events.