Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China
oleh: 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
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2019-05-01 |
Deskripsi
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.