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Delayed build-up of Arctic ice sheets during 400,000-year minima in insolation variability

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  • Qingzhen Hao

    (Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of SciencesPO Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China)

  • Luo Wang

    (Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of SciencesPO Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China)

  • Frank Oldfield

    (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT, UK)

  • Shuzhen Peng

    (Key Laboratory of Tourism and Resources Environment in Universities of Shandong, Taishan University)

  • Li Qin

    (Chongqing Three Gorges Institute of Paleoanthropology, China Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing 400015, China)

  • Yang Song

    (Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of SciencesPO Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China
    Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Bing Xu

    (Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of SciencesPO Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China)

  • Yansong Qiao

    (Institute of Geomechanics)

  • Jan Bloemendal

    (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT, UK)

  • Zhengtang Guo

    (Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of SciencesPO Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China)

Abstract

An East Asian winter monsoon proxy record using grain size variations in Chinese loess over the past 900,000 years shows that for up to 20,000 years after the interglacials at 400,000-year intervals, the weak monsoon winds maintain a mild, non-glacial climate at high northern latitudes.

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  • Qingzhen Hao & Luo Wang & Frank Oldfield & Shuzhen Peng & Li Qin & Yang Song & Bing Xu & Yansong Qiao & Jan Bloemendal & Zhengtang Guo, 2012. "Delayed build-up of Arctic ice sheets during 400,000-year minima in insolation variability," Nature, Nature, vol. 490(7420), pages 393-396, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:490:y:2012:i:7420:d:10.1038_nature11493
    DOI: 10.1038/nature11493
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    1. Krapp, Mario & Beyer, Robert & Edmundson, Stephen L. & Valdes, Paul J & Manica, Andrea, 2019. "A comprehensive climate history of the last 800 thousand years," Earth Arxiv d5hfx, Center for Open Science.

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