Nature Communications (May 2019)

Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China

  • Ulrike Herzschuh,
  • Xianyong Cao,
  • Thomas Laepple,
  • Anne Dallmeyer,
  • Richard J. Telford,
  • Jian Ni,
  • Fahu Chen,
  • Zhaochen Kong,
  • Guangxiu Liu,
  • Kam-Biu Liu,
  • Xingqi Liu,
  • Martina Stebich,
  • Lingyu Tang,
  • Fang Tian,
  • Yongbo Wang,
  • Juliane Wischnewski,
  • Qinghai Xu,
  • Shun Yan,
  • Zhenjing Yang,
  • Ge Yu,
  • Yun Zhang,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Zhuo Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09866-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The basic mechanisms behind the East Asian Summer Monsoon remain poorly understood. Using proxy-based reconstructions and simulations, here the authors show that changes in the orientation and position of the westerly jet stream resulted in regionally asynchronous Holocene precipitation maxima.