Zhimin Jian

TL;DR: The Asian monsoon is comprised of the Indian and East Asian subsystems, and the extent to which they interact with other climate phenomena (e.g., ENSO) are current topics of modern and paleoclimate research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the main flow of the Kuroshio Current was inferred to re-enter the Okinawa Trough at ∼7.3 calendar (cal.) kyr BP, leading to abrupt changes in sedimentation rate, remarkably increased abundance of Pulleniatina obliquiloculata, increased sea surface temperature (SST) and depth of thermocline (DOT).

TL;DR: In this article, geochemical and Nd isotopic changes in sediment samples at ODP Site 1148 in the South China Sea were investigated. But the authors focused on the change in provenance from southwest to north was largely caused by ridge jumping during seafloor spreading.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present centennial records of sea surface and upper thermocline temperatures in Core MD01-2378 from the Timor Sea, which provide new insights into the variability of the Indonesian outflow across the last two glacial terminations.

TL;DR: In this paper, 30 new planktonic foraminiferal census data of surface sediment samples from the South China Sea, recovered between 630 and 2883 m water depth, were used for calibrating the SIMMAX-28 transfer function to estimate past sea-surface temperatures.