Youfeng Ning

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: 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.

TL;DR: A multiproxy speleothem record of monsoon evolution during the last deglaciation from the middle Yangtze region is reported, which indicates a wetter central eastern China during North Atlantic cooling episodes, despite the oxygen isotopic record suggesting a weaker monsoon.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive carbon isotopic characterization of total organic carbon (TOC) and individual higher plant leaf waxes from five loess sequences spanning the last 35 ka from the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) was performed.