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

Hong Ao; Eelco J. Rohling; Ran Zhang; Andrew P. Roberts; Ann E. Holbourn; Jean Baptiste Ladant; Guillaume Dupont-Nivet; Wolfgang Kuhnt; Peng Zhang; Feng Wu; Mark J. Dekkers; Qingsong Liu; Zhonghui Liu; Yong Xu; Christopher J. Poulsen; Alexis Licht; Qiang Sun; John C.H. Chiang; Xiaodong Liu; Guoxiong Wu; Chao Ma; Weijian Zhou; Zhangdong Jin; Xinxia Li; Xinzhou Li; Xianzhe Peng; Xiaoke Qiang; Zhisheng An

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

Hong Ao^*, Eelco J. Rohling, Ran Zhang^*, Andrew P. Roberts, Ann E. Holbourn, Jean Baptiste Ladant, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Peng Zhang, Feng Wu, Mark J. Dekkers, Qingsong Liu, Zhonghui Liu, Yong Xu, Christopher J. Poulsen, Alexis Licht, Qiang Sun, John C.H. Chiang, Xiaodong Liu, Guoxiong WuChao Ma, Weijian Zhou, Zhangdong Jin, Xinxia Li, Xinzhou Li, Xianzhe Peng, Xiaoke Qiang, Zhisheng An

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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 correlations, and climate model simulations. Our results offer palaeoclimate-based support for ‘wet-gets-wetter and dry-gets-drier’ projections of future regional hydroclimate responses to sustained anthropogenic forcing. Moreover, our high-resolution monsoon records reveal a dynamic response to eccentricity modulation of solar insolation, with predominant 405-kyr and ~100-kyr periodicities between 8.1 and 3.4 Ma.

Original language	English
Article number	6935
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27054-5
Publication status	Published - Dec 2021

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Ao, H., Rohling, E. J., Zhang, R., Roberts, A. P., Holbourn, A. E., Ladant, J. B., Dupont-Nivet, G., Kuhnt, W., Zhang, P., Wu, F., Dekkers, M. J., Liu, Q., Liu, Z., Xu, Y., Poulsen, C. J., Licht, A., Sun, Q., Chiang, J. C. H., Liu, X., ... An, Z. (2021). Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 6935. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27054-5

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