Warming-induced northwestward migration of the East Asian monsoon rain belt from the Last Glacial Maximum to the mid-Holocene
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- Shiling Yang
- Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhongli Ding
- Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- Yangyang Li
- Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- Xu Wang
- Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- Wenying Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- Xiaofang Huang
- Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2015-10-12
- 権利情報
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- http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/userlicense.xhtml
- DOI
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- 10.1073/pnas.1504688112
- 公開者
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p> The southward displacement of the East Asian monsoon rain belt heightens concerns over the warming-induced drying of northern China. Paleovegetation change on the Chinese Loess Plateau provides insights into future climate changes. We find that the spatial distribution of C <jats:sub>4</jats:sub> plant biomass is a robust analog for the monsoon rain belt, which migrated at least 300 km to the northwest from the cold Last Glacial Maximum (∼19 ka) to the warm Holocene (∼4 ka). These results strongly support the idea that the Earth's thermal equator will move northward in a warmer world, and that the observed southward migration of the monsoon rain belt over the last few decades is transient and northern China will eventually become wet as global warming advances. </jats:p>
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (43), 13178-13183, 2015-10-12
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
