A 5-year-resolution absolute-dated oxygen isotope record from Dongge Cave, southern China, provides a continuous history of the Asian monsoon over the past 9000 years. Although the record broadly follows summer insolation, it is punctuated by eight weak monsoon events lasting ∼1 to 5 centuries. One correlates with the "8200-year" event, another with the collapse of the Chinese Neolithic culture, and most with North Atlantic ice-rafting events. Cross-correlation of the decadal- to centennial-scale monsoon record with the atmospheric carbon-14 record shows that some, but not all, of the monsoon variability at these frequencies results from changes in solar output.
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Wang, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., He, Y., Kong, X., An, Z., … Li, X. (2005). The holocene Asian monsoon: Links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate. Science, 308(5723), 854–857. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1106296
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