Monsoon Seasonality Advanced by Opposite‐Hemisphere Continental Drift

Abstract

The monsoon is an atmospheric circulation seasonal reversal heavily modulated by regional land-sea contrast (e.g., Wang & Ding, 2008;Wang et al., 2017). There are six major monsoons on the Earth; each is unique in several aspects, including continental location, shape, orography, and surface properties, and thus have quite different characteristics, such as intensity, coverage, and seasonality (e.g., Geen et al., 2020;Nie et al., 2010;Wang & Ding, 2008). The East Asian monsoon, a component of the Asian Monsoon system, covers much of the Asian Continent and affects more than 1.5 billion people. Over geologic timescales, the East Asian monsoon has been greatly shaped by the uplift of the Himalayan-Tibetan region from 40 to 50 Ma (million years ago)