FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI The East Asian winter monsoon variability in response to precession during the past 150 000 yr BT AF YAMAMOTO, M. SAI, H. CHEN, M.-T. ZHAO, M. AS 1:1,2;2:2;3:3;4:4; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:; C1 Hokkaido Univ, Fac Environm Earth Sci, Kita Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 0600810, Japan. Hokkaido Univ, Grad Sch Environm Sci, Kita Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 0600810, Japan. Natl Taiwan Ocean Univ, Inst Appl Geosci, Keelung 20224, Taiwan. Ocean Univ China, Minist Educ, Key Lab Marine Chem Theory & Technol, Qingdao 266003, Peoples R China. C2 UNIV HOKKAIDO, JAPAN UNIV HOKKAIDO, JAPAN UNIV NATL TAIWAN OCEAN, TAIWAN UNIV OCEAN CHINA, CHINA IN DOAJ IF 3.482 TC 35 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00264/37567/35841.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00264/37567/71304.pdf LA English DT Article CR IMAGES 3-IPHIS-MD106 MD 122 / WEPAMA BO Marion Dufresne AB The response of the East Asian winter monsoon variability to orbital forcing is still unclear, and hypotheses are controversial. We present a 150 000 yr record of sea surface temperature difference (Delta SST) between the South China Sea and other Western Pacific Warm Pool regions as a proxy for the intensity of the Asian winter monsoon, because the winter cooling of the South China Sea is caused by the cooling of surface water at the northern margin and the southward advection of cooled water due to winter monsoon winds. The Delta SST showed dominant precession cycles during the past 150 000 yr. The Delta SST varies at precessional band and supports the hypothesis that monsoon is regulated by insolation changes at low-latitudes (Kutzbach, 1981), but contradicts previous suggestions based on marine and loess records that eccentricity controls variability on glacial-interglacial timescales. Maximum winter monsoon intensity corresponds to the May perihelion at precessional band, which is not fully consistent with the Kutzbach model of maximum winter monsoon at the June perihelion. Variation in the East Asian winter monsoon was anti-phased with the Indian summer monsoon, suggesting a linkage of dynamics between these two monsoon systems on an orbital timescale. PY 2013 PD DEC SO Climate Of The Past SN 1814-9324 PU Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh VL 9 IS 6 UT 000328274700024 BP 2777 EP 2788 DI 10.5194/cp-9-2777-2013 ID 37567 ER EF