PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Wang, Yongjin
AU  - Cheng, Hai
AU  - Edwards, R. Lawrence
AU  - He, Yaoqi
AU  - Kong, Xinggong
AU  - An, Zhisheng
AU  - Wu, Jiangying
AU  - Kelly, Megan J.
AU  - Dykoski, Carolyn A.
AU  - Li, Xiangdong
TI  - The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate
AID  - 10.1126/science.1106296
DP  - 2005 May 06
TA  - Science
PG  - 854--857
VI  - 308
IP  - 5723
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/308/5723/854.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/308/5723/854.full
SO  - Science2005 May 06; 308
AB  - A 5-year-resolution absolute-dated oxygen isotope record from Dongge Cave, southern China, provides a continuous history of the Asian monsoon over the past 9000 years. Although the record broadly follows summer insolation, it is punctuated by eight weak monsoon events lasting ∼1 to 5 centuries. One correlates with the “8200-year” event, another with the collapse of the Chinese Neolithic culture, and most with North Atlantic ice-rafting events. Cross-correlation of the decadal- to centennial-scale monsoon record with the atmospheric carbon-14 record shows that some, but not all, of the monsoon variability at these frequencies results from changes in solar output.