Fall 2015: Monsoons - Past, Present, and Future

December 10

Required reading:

Christensen, J.H., K. Krishna Kumar, E. Aldrian, S.-I. An, I.F.A. Cavalcanti, M. de Castro, W. Dong, P. Goswami, A. Hall, J.K. Kanyanga, A. Kitoh, J. Kossin, N.-C. Lau, J. Renwick, D.B. Stephenson, S.-P. Xie and T. Zhou, 2013: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, Excecutive Summary and Sections 14.1-14.2 pdf

Optional reading:

Bony S. et al., Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity, Nature Geoscience, 8, 261-268, 2015 pdf

December 3

Required reading:

Pausata F., Battisti D., Nisancioglu K., and Bitz C., Chinese stalagmite d18O controlled by changes in the Indian monsoon during a simulated Heinrich event, Nature geoscience, 4, 474-480, 2011 (pdf) (supplementary information pdf)

November 19

Required Reading:

Schulz H., von Rad U., and Erlenkeuser, H., Correlation between Arabian Sea and Greenland climate oscillations of the past 110,000 years, Nature, 393, 54-57, 1998 pdf (supplementary material pdf)

Optional Reading:

Prell W., Variation of monsoonal upwelling: A response to changing solar radiation, in "Climate processes and climate sensitivity", J. Hansen and T. Takahashi (eds.), AGU, Washington DC, Geophysical Monograph Series, 29, 48-57, 1984 pdf

November 12

Require Reading:

Griffiths et al., Increasing Australian-Indonesian monsoon rainfall linked to early Holocene sea-level rise, Nature geoscience, 2, 636-639, 2009 pdf (supplementary material pdf)

Ayliffe et al., Rapid interhemispheric climate links via the Australasian monsoon during the last deglaciation, Nature communications, 4:2908, doi:10.1038/ncomms3908, 2013 pdf (supplementary material pdf)

November 5

Required Reading:

Yuan et al., Timing, duration, and transitions of the last interglacial Asian monsoon, Science, 304, 575-578, 2004 pdf (Supplementary material pdf)

Wang et al., Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the east Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years, Nature, 451, 1090-1093, 2008 pdf (suppementary material pdf)

Supplementary Reading:

Bender et al., The Dole effect and its variations during the last 130,000 years as measured in the Vostok ice core, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 8, 363-376, 1994 pdf

Falkowski P. and Raven J., Aquatic photosynthesis, Blackwell Science, 375 pp., 1997 (excerpt pdf)

October 29

Required Reading:

Yancheva et al., Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon, Nature, 445, 74-77, doi:10.1038/nature05431, 2007 pdf

Supplementary information pdf

Comments and Reply:

1) Zhang D. and Lu L., Anti-correlation of summer/winter monsoons, Nature, 450, doi:10.1038/nature06338, 2007

2) Yancheva et al., Reply, Nature, 450, doi:10.1038/nature06338, 2007

Papers (1-2) could be found here pdf

3) Zhou H. et al., Record of winter monsoon strength, Nature, 450, doi:10.1038/nature06408, E10

4) Yancheva et al., Reply, Nature, 450, doi:10.1038/nature064088, 2007

Papers (3-4) can be found here pdf

October 22

Required Reading:

Weldeab S., Lea D., Schneider R., and Andersen N., 155,000 years of West African Monsoon and ocean thermal evolution, Science, 316, 1303-1307, 2007 pdf

Weldeab S., Lea D., Schneider R., and Andersen N., 155,000 years of West African Monsoon and ocean thermal evolution, Science, 316, 1303-1307, 2007 - supplementary information pdf

October 15

Required Reading:

Shanahan et al., The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period, Nature Geosciences, 8, 140-144, 2015 pdf

Shanahan et al., The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period, Nature Geosciences, 8, 140-144, 2015: supplementary information pdf

News and Views: de Menocal P., End of the Africa Humid Period, Nature Geoscience, 8, 86-87, 2015 pdf

Supplementary Reading:

Garcin et al., Hydrogen isotope ratios of lacustrine sedimentary n-alkanes as proxies of tropical African hydrology: Insights from a calibration transect across Cameroon, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 79, 106-126, 2012 pdf

Sachse et al., Molecular paleohydrology: Interpreting the hydrogen-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers from photosynthesizing organisms, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 40, 221-249, 2012 pdf

October 8

Required reading:

deMenocal P., Ortiz J., Guilderson T., Adkins J., Sarnthein M., Baker L., and Yarusinsky Y., Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period: Rapid climaste responses to gradual insolation forcing, Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 347-361, 2000 pdf

Supplementary reading:

Ruddiman W., Earth's Climate - Past and Future, 3rd edition, Freeman and Company, 2014. Chapter 9: Insolation control of monsoons, pp. 177-194, 2014 pdf

October 1

Required Readings:

Haug, G. H., Hughen, K. A., Sigman, D. M., Peterson, L. C., and Röhl, U.: Southward migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone through the Holocene, Science, 293, 1304–1308, 2001. pdf supp

Peterson, L. C., G. H. Haug, K. A. Hughen, and U. Rohl, Rapid changes in the hydrologic cycle of the tropical Atlantic during the Last Glacial, Science 290 (2000), pp. 1947–1951. pdf

Supplementary Reading:

Ruddiman W., Earth's Climate - Past and Future, 3rd edition, Freeman and Company, 2014. Chapter 8: Astronomical control of solar radiation, pp. 159-175, 2014 pdf

September 24

Required Reading

Wang X., Auler A., Edwards L., Cheng H., Cristalli P., Smart P., Richards D., and Shen C.-C., Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies, Nature, 432, 740-743, 2004 pdf (supplementary material pdf)

Wang X., Auler A., Edwards L., Cheng H., Ito E., Wang Y., Kong X., and Solheid M., Millennial-scale precipitation changes in southern Brazil over the past 90,000 years, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL031149, 2007 pdf

Supplementary Reading

Lachniet M., Climatic and environmental controls on speleothem oxygen-isotope values, Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 412-432, 2009 pdf

Silva V. and Kousky V., The South American Monsoon System: Climatology and variability, Intech, www.intechopen.com pdf

September 17

Required Reading

Cai Y., Fung I. Y., Edwards R. L., An Z., Cheng H., Lee J.-E., Tan L., Shen C.-C., Wang X., Day J. A., Zhou W., Kelly M. J. and Chiang J. C. H. (2015) Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 12, 2954–2959. pdf (includes SI).

Sept. 10

Suggested Reading

The Meteorology of Monsoons, Chapter 1 in Peter D. Clift and R. Alan Plumb, 2008. The Asian Monsoon: Causes, History and Effects, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-84799-5. X + 270 pp. pdf

References quoted in this book pdf

Power-Point Presentation pdf