A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record
Abstrak
A record from Wanxiang Cave, China, characterizes Asian Monsoon (AM) history over the past 1810 years. The summer monsoon correlates with solar variability, Northern Hemisphere and Chinese temperature, Alpine glacial retreat, and Chinese cultural changes. It was generally strong during Europe's Medieval Warm Period and weak during Europe's Little Ice Age, as well as during the final decades of the Tang, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties, all times that were characterized by popular unrest. It was strong during the first several decades of the Northern Song Dynasty, a period of increased rice cultivation and dramatic population increase. The sign of the correlation between the AM and temperature switches around 1960, suggesting that anthropogenic forcing superseded natural forcing as the major driver of AM changes in the late 20th century.
Penulis (17)
Pingzhong Zhang
Hai Cheng
R. Edwards
Fahu Chen
Yongjin Wang
Xunlin Yang
Jian Liu
M. Tan
Xianfeng Wang
Jinghua Liu
C. An
Z. Dai
Jing Zhou
Dezhong Zhang
Jihong Jia
Liya Jin
K. Johnson
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2008
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 1036×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1126/science.1163965
- Akses
- Open Access ✓