Ice‐volume forcing of winter monsoon climate in the South China Sea

Chen, Min‐Te; Huang, Chih-Chung

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“…Wang and Wang (1990) and Wang et al (1995) generated summer and winter sea-surface temperature (SST) records for the SCS based on foraminifer assemblages and demonstrated a larger seasonal SST difference and a larger latitudinal SST gradient during the last glacial maximum (LGM) than exist at present. Huang et al (1997a, b) and Chen and Huang (1998) reported similar phenomena using foraminifer-and alkenone-based SST records for the northern SCS. Pelejero et al (1999a) reported a larger latitudinal SST gradient during the LGM than that expressed at present, based on alkenone temperature records.…”

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Slow Warming of the Northern South China Sea during the Last Deglaciation

Shintani¹,

Yamamoto²,

Chen³

2008

Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci.

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We have generated a record of alkenone sea surface temperatures (SSTs) during the last 28000 years from Core MD97-2146 for the northern South China Sea (SCS). The SST record showed a typical pattern for change in the northern SCS SST. The SST during the LGM was~25°C, this decreased to~24°C to 17 ka, increased to~25.5°C to 14.5 ka, decreased again to~24.5°C to 11.8 ka, increased gradually to~27°C to 6 ka, and then increased more gradually to reach~27.5°C at present. The SST difference (DSST NSCS = SST MD97-2146 -SST MD97-2141 ) between Cores MD97-2146 (the northern SCS; this study) and MD97-2141 (the Sulu Sea; Rosenthal et al. 2003) was used to characterize the SST changes in the northern SCS relative to changes in the adjacent WTP region. The DSST NSCS decreased from 21 to 11.8 ka and increased after 11.8 ka, indicating slower warming of the northern SCS during the last deglaciation than that of the adjacent western tropical Pacific region. We infer that the slow warming of the northern SCS was principally a result of stronger winter monsoon during the last deglaciation and early Holocene. In addition, the cool water inflow through the Taiwan Strait after 13 ka and the warm water inflow through the Sunda Shelf after 11 ka could influence the SST in the northern SCS.

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Slow Warming of the Northern South China Sea during the Last Deglaciation

Shintani¹,

Yamamoto²,

Chen³

2008

Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci.

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“…The glacial^interglacial SST di¡erence in the core WPWP was about 1^3 ‡C (CLIMAP, 1981 ;Ohkouchi et al, 1994;Lea et al, 2000). In contrast, SSTs in the SCS dropped by as much as 3^6 ‡C (L. Wang and Wang, 1990;Miao et al, 1994;Thunell et al, 1995;Chen and Huang, 1998;Wei et al, 1998a;Pelejero et al, 1999;Kienast et al, 2001) (equivalent to V0.751 .5x increase in N 18 O signal) from the interglacial to glacial intervals. The SSTs seldom exceeded the modern temperature in the past.…”

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Toward establishing a maritime proxy record of the East Asian summer monsoons for the late Quaternary

2003

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“…Wang and Wang (1990) and Wang et al (1995) reconstructed summer and winter SSTs in the SCS based on foraminifer assemblages, and found that during the LGM, the SCS experienced larger seasonal SST differences and a steeper latitudinal SST gradient than it does presently. Intense glacial cooling in the northern SCS was reported based on foraminifer-and alkenone-based SST records (Huang et al, 1997a, b;Chen and Huang, 1998;Chen et al, 2003). Kienast et al (2001) found a millennium-scale temperature variation that mimics Greenland ice core records.…”

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The East Asian winter monsoon variability in response to precession during the past 150 000 yr

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Abstract. The response of the East Asian winter monsoon variability to orbital forcing is still unclear, and hypotheses are controversial. We present a 150 000 yr record of sea surface temperature difference ( SST) between the South China Sea and other Western Pacific Warm Pool regions as a proxy for the intensity of the Asian winter monsoon, because the winter cooling of the South China Sea is caused by the cooling of surface water at the northern margin and the southward advection of cooled water due to winter monsoon winds. The SST showed dominant precession cycles during the past 150 000 yr. The SST varies at precessional band and supports the hypothesis that monsoon is regulated by insolation changes at low-latitudes (Kutzbach, 1981), but contradicts previous suggestions based on marine and loess records that eccentricity controls variability on glacial-interglacial timescales. Maximum winter monsoon intensity corresponds to the May perihelion at precessional band, which is not fully consistent with the Kutzbach model of maximum winter monsoon at the June perihelion. Variation in the East Asian winter monsoon was anti-phased with the Indian summer monsoon, suggesting a linkage of dynamics between these two monsoon systems on an orbital timescale.

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Ice‐volume forcing of winter monsoon climate in the South China Sea

Cited by 56 publications

References 45 publications

Slow Warming of the Northern South China Sea during the Last Deglaciation

Slow Warming of the Northern South China Sea during the Last Deglaciation

Toward establishing a maritime proxy record of the East Asian summer monsoons for the late Quaternary

The East Asian winter monsoon variability in response to precession during the past 150 000 yr

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