Nature Communications (Jan 2019)
Diverse manifestations of the mid-Pleistocene climate transition
- Youbin Sun,
- Qiuzhen Yin,
- Michel Crucifix,
- Steven C. Clemens,
- Pablo Araya-Melo,
- Weiguo Liu,
- Xiaoke Qiang,
- Qingsong Liu,
- Hui Zhao,
- Lianji Liang,
- Hongyun Chen,
- Ying Li,
- Li Zhang,
- Guocheng Dong,
- Ming Li,
- Weijian Zhou,
- Andre Berger,
- Zhisheng An
Affiliations
- Youbin Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qiuzhen Yin
- Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain
- Michel Crucifix
- Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain
- Steven C. Clemens
- Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
- Pablo Araya-Melo
- Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain
- Weiguo Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiaoke Qiang
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qingsong Liu
- Centre for Marine Magnetism, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Hui Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lianji Liang
- College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology
- Hongyun Chen
- The Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
- Ying Li
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Li Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guocheng Dong
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ming Li
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Weijian Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Andre Berger
- Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain
- Zhisheng An
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08257-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
The mid-Pleistocene transition is recognized as a shift in paleoclimatic periodicity from 41- to 100-kyr cycles. Here the authors present a unique mid-Pleistocene transition of coupled monsoon-vegetation changes from 23- to 100-kyr cycles, which indicates varied sensitivity of past climate to astronomical and ice/CO2 forcing.
