Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary.

ABSTRACT: Across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary (MPB; 5.3 million years ago, Ma), late Miocene cooling gave way to the early-to-middle Pliocene Warm Period. This transition, across which atmospheric CO₂ concentrations increased to levels similar to present, holds potential for deciphering regional climate responses in Asia-currently home to more than half of the world's population- to global climate change. Here we find that CO₂-induced MPB warming both increased summer monsoon moisture transport over East Asia, and enhanced aridification over large parts of Central Asia by increasing evaporation, based on integration of our ~1-2-thousand-year (kyr) resolution summer monsoon records from the Chinese Loess Plateau aeolian red clay with existing terrestrial records, land-sea corre

SUBMITTER: Ao H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8626456 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature