The spatial–temporal patterns of Asian summer monsoon precipitation in response to Holocene insolation change: a model-data synthesis

Jin, Liya; Schneider, Birgit; Park, Wonsun; Latif, Mojib; Khon, Vyacheslav; Zhang, Xiaojian

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.004

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“…Temperature trends from time slice simulations over the Holocene have been compared with proxy data in Schneider et al (2010). The KCM reasonably well simulates the ASM precipitation during the Holocene (Jin et al 2014;Dallmeyer et al 2015). The KCM's rainfall is also consistent with that simulated by five other climate models in transient mode (Dallmeyer et al 2015), which focused on trends in global zonal-mean June-July-August (JJA) precipitation and surface air temperature during the last 6 ka.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…In this regard, this approach is effectively a sensitivity test of Sun et al (2005) climate models to variations in insolation. More details on the model can be found in Jin et al (2014). The KCM climatology for present-day conditions has been validated against observations in Park et al (2009) and Jin et al (2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More details on the model can be found in Jin et al (2014). The KCM climatology for present-day conditions has been validated against observations in Park et al (2009) and Jin et al (2014). Temperature trends from time slice simulations over the Holocene have been compared with proxy data in Schneider et al (2010).…”

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“…The coupled model had been brought to a quasi-equilibrium climate state with the early Holocene orbital configuration (9.5 k) before the transient simulation started using orbital forcing only (Jin et al, 2014). The forcing, i.e.…”

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“…Fleitmann et al, 2003;Jolly et al, 1998;Peyron et al, 2006;Prasad and Enzel, 2006;Wang et al, 2005). However, not all reconstructions show a synchronous trend within and among the different sub-monsoon regions.…”

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The evolution of sub-monsoon systems in the Afro-Asian monsoon region during the Holocene– comparison of different transient climate model simulations

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Abstract. The recently proposed global monsoon hypothesis interprets monsoon systems as part of one global-scale atmospheric overturning circulation, implying a connection between the regional monsoon systems and an in-phase behaviour of all northern hemispheric monsoons on annual timescales (Trenberth et al., 2000). Whether this concept can be applied to past climates and variability on longer timescales is still under debate, because the monsoon systems exhibit different regional characteristics such as different seasonality (i.e. onset, peak and withdrawal). To investigate the interconnection of different monsoon systems during the pre-industrial Holocene, five transient global climate model simulations have been analysed with respect to the rainfall trend and variability in different sub-domains of the Afro-Asian monsoon region. Our analysis suggests that on millennial timescales with varying orbital forcing, the monsoons do not behave as a tightly connected global system. According to the models, the Indian and North African monsoons are coupled, showing similar rainfall trend and moderate correlation in centennial rainfall variability in all models.The East Asian monsoon changes independently during the Holocene. The dissimilarities in the seasonality of the monsoon sub-systems lead to a stronger response of the North African and Indian monsoon systems to the Holocene insolation forcing than of the East Asian monsoon and affect the seasonal distribution of Holocene rainfall variations. Within the Indian and North African monsoon domain, precipitation solely changes during the summer months, showing a decreasing Holocene precipitation trend. In the East Asian monsoon region, the precipitation signal is determined by an increasing precipitation trend during spring and a decreasing precipitation change during summer, partly balancing each other. A synthesis of reconstructions and the model results do not reveal an impact of the different seasonality on the timing of the Holocene rainfall optimum in the different submonsoon systems. Rather they indicate locally inhomogeneous rainfall changes and show that single palaeo-records should not be used to characterise the rainfall change and monsoon evolution for entire monsoon sub-systems.

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Asynchronous variation in the East Asian winter monsoon during the Holocene

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2015

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The East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) is one of the most active components of the global climate system. Climate anomalies associated with the EAWM differ between extratropical and tropical regions due to the EAWM's meridional extent. Spatial differences in the EAWM variability on centennial and millennial time scales during the Holocene have not been well understood. This study describes Holocene spatiotemporal features of the EAWM based on comparisons of proxy records and climate simulations. The analysis specifically compared four proxy records located throughout China to assess the EAWM's spatial variability during the Holocene. These records indicate a stronger EAWM during the early Holocene than that during the late Holocene. The EAWM also shows a rapid, asynchronous decline from northwestern to southeastern China. The EAWM declined in northwestern China from 10 to 7.5 ka B.P., whereas the decline did not occur in southern China and the eastern Tibetan Plateau until 6-4.5 ka B.P. Coupled equilibrium and transient simulations of climate evolution during the Holocene indicate that the decline of the EAWM from 10 to 7.5 ka B.P. was probably caused by melting of Northern Hemisphere (NH) ice sheets and enhanced Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). The decline of the EAWM from 6 to 4.5 ka B.P. over the eastern Tibetan Plateau and southern China is related to an abrupt increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of the tropical western Indian Ocean. We therefore argue that the regional shift in EAWM intensity was probably related to a distinguishing response to high-latitude (NH ice sheets and AMOC) and low-latitude (tropical SSTs) forcings.

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The spatial–temporal patterns of Asian summer monsoon precipitation in response to Holocene insolation change: a model-data synthesis

Cited by 101 publications

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Lagged response of summer precipitation to insolation forcing on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene

Lagged response of summer precipitation to insolation forcing on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene

The evolution of sub-monsoon systems in the Afro-Asian monsoon region during the Holocene– comparison of different transient climate model simulations

Asynchronous variation in the East Asian winter monsoon during the Holocene

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