FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Comment on "Asynchronous variation in the East Asian winter monsoon during the Holocene" by Xiaojian Zhang, Liya Jin, and Na Li BT AF RASHID, Harunur MARCHE, Brittany VERMOOTEN, Marli PARRY, Devon WEBB, Michaela BROCKWAY, Brent LANGER, Keesha AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:1;7:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:; C1 Mem Univ Newfoundland, Earth & Environm Sci, Corner Brook, NF, Canada. C2 UNIV NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA IF 3.454 TC 2 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00421/53265/54673.pdf LA English DT Article CR IMAGES V LEG 1-MD114 IMAGES V LEG 4-MD114 OSIRIS 3 - MD 13 BO Marion Dufresne DE ;East Asian winter monsoon;Holocene;subpolar North Atlantic Ocean;eastern tropical Indian Ocean AB Comparing paleoproxy records throughout China and two climate models simulation results, Zhang et al. (2015) reported asynchronous Holocene spatiotemporal decline of the East Asian winter monsoon. Six sea surface temperature (SST) proxy records from the Atlantic Ocean and northern Indian Ocean and South China Sea were used to validate climate simulations results. However, the referred Mg/Ca SST record from the western Atlantic Ocean is simply nonexistent and the northeast Atlantic Mg/Ca SST data do not reflect winter SST as Zhang et al. (2015) argued to support the driving mechanisms. Furthermore, the western Indian Ocean SSTs data used in Zhang et al. (2015) do not reflect the winter SSTs or regional changes in the Holocene SSTs. Therefore, we question the validity of model simulation results and hence the reliability of conclusions in Zhang et al. (2015). PY 2016 PD FEB SO Journal Of Geophysical Research-atmospheres SN 2169-897X PU Amer Geophysical Union VL 121 IS 4 UT 000372977900014 BP 1611 EP 1614 DI 10.1002/2015JD023983 ID 53265 ER EF