Yongjin Wang

TL;DR: The record links North Atlantic climate with the meridional transport of heat and moisture from the warmest part of the ocean where the summer East Asian Monsoon originates and generally agrees with the timing of temperature changes from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2).

TL;DR: A 5-year-resolution absolute-dated oxygen isotope record from Dongge Cave, southern China, provides a continuous history of the Asian monsoon over the past 9000 years, and shows that some, but not all, of the monsoon variability at these frequencies results from changes in solar output.

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: Thorium-230 ages and oxygen isotope ratios of stalagmites from Dongge Cave, China, characterize the Asian Monsoon and low-latitude precipitation over the past 160,000 years, indicating that insolation triggered the final rise to full interglacial conditions.

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.