Asian Winter Monsoon Imprint on Holocene SST Changes at the Northern Coast of the South China Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (22) ◽  
pp. 13363-13370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yancheng Zhang ◽  
Kai Zhu ◽  
Chao Huang ◽  
Deming Kong ◽  
Yuxin He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Winter Monsoon ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Asian Winter Monsoon

Holocene hydrological and sea surface temperature changes in the northern coast of the South China Sea

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 268-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mong-Sin Wu ◽  
Yongqiang Zong ◽  
Ka-Man Mok ◽  
Ka-Ming Cheung ◽  
Haixian Xiong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
China Sea

scholarly journals The East Asian winter monsoon variability in response to precession during the past 150 000 yr

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2777-2788 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yamamoto ◽  
H. Sai ◽  
M.-T. Chen ◽  
M. Zhao
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
East Asian Winter Monsoon ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Winter Monsoon ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Asian Winter Monsoon ◽  
The Past ◽  
Monsoon Variability

Abstract. The response of the East Asian winter monsoon variability to orbital forcing is still unclear, and hypotheses are controversial. We present a 150 000 yr record of sea surface temperature difference (ΔSST) between the South China Sea and other Western Pacific Warm Pool regions as a proxy for the intensity of the Asian winter monsoon, because the winter cooling of the South China Sea is caused by the cooling of surface water at the northern margin and the southward advection of cooled water due to winter monsoon winds. The ΔSST showed dominant precession cycles during the past 150 000 yr. The ΔSST varies at precessional band and supports the hypothesis that monsoon is regulated by insolation changes at low-latitudes (Kutzbach, 1981), but contradicts previous suggestions based on marine and loess records that eccentricity controls variability on glacial–interglacial timescales. Maximum winter monsoon intensity corresponds to the May perihelion at precessional band, which is not fully consistent with the Kutzbach model of maximum winter monsoon at the June perihelion. Variation in the East Asian winter monsoon was anti-phased with the Indian summer monsoon, suggesting a linkage of dynamics between these two monsoon systems on an orbital timescale.

Coral δ18O records as an indicator of winter monsoon intensity in the South China Sea

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zicheng Peng ◽  
Tegu Chen ◽  
Baofu Nie ◽  
M. John Head ◽  
Xuexian He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Winter Monsoon ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Porites Lutea ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Meteorological Observatory ◽  
Monsoon Intensity

AbstractWe have used correlative analysis between mean December–January–February winter wind velocities, measured at the Xisha Meteorological Observatory (16°50′N, 112°20′E) in the middle of the South China Sea, and mean δ18O data for the corresponding month from Porites lutea coral, collected in Longwan waters (19°20′N, 110°39′E), to obtain a linear equation relating the two datasets. This winter wind velocity for the South China Sea (WMIIscs) can then be correlated to the coral δ18O by the equation WMIIscs = −1.213–1.351 δ18O (‰ PDB), r = −0.60, n = 40, P = 0.01. From this, the calculated WMIIscs-δ18O series from 1944 to 1997 tends to decrease during the 1940s to the 1960s; it increases slightly during the 1970s and then decreases again in the 1980s and 1990s. The calculated decadal mean WMIIscs-δ18O series had a obvious decrease from 5.92 to 4.63 m/s during the period of 1944–1997. The calculated yearly mean WMIIscs-δ18O value is 5.58 m/s from 1944 to 1976 and this decreases to 4.85 m/s from 1977 to 1998. That is the opposite trend to the observed yearly mean SST variation. The yearly mean SST anomaly is −0.27° from 1943 to 1976 and this increases to +0.16° from 1977 to 1998. Spectral analysis used on a 54-year-long calculated WMIIscs-δ18O series produces spectral peaks at 2.4–7 yr, which can be closely correlated with the quasibiennial oscillation band (QBO band, 2–2.4 yr) and the El Ñino southern oscillation band (ENSO band, 3–8 yr). Hence most of the variability of the winter monsoon intensity in the middle of the South China Sea is mainly constrained by changes in the thermal difference between the land and the adjoining sea area, perhaps due to global warming.

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