Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Deglacial variability of South China hydroclimate heavily contributed by autumn rainfall

  • Chengfei He,
  • Zhengyu Liu,
  • Bette L. Otto-Bliesner,
  • Esther C. Brady,
  • Chenyu Zhu,
  • Robert Tomas,
  • Sifan Gu,
  • Jing Han,
  • Yishuai Jin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26106-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Deglacial hydroclimate in South China is perennially debated. New modeling experiments reveal that regional hydroclimate was strongly influenced by rainfall during the transition between the East Asian summer monsoon and winter monsoon, forced by climate variability in the North Atlantic.