Contributors: Chinese Academy of Sciences Xi’an; Australian National University (ANU); University of Southampton; Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing (CAS); Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel = Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel = Université Christian-Albrechts de Kiel (CAU); Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Ann Arbor; University of Michigan Ann Arbor; University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System; Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE); Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)); Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA); Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)); École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X); Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité); Géosciences Rennes (GR); Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des sciences de l'environnement de Rennes (OSERen); Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE); University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP); Institute of Earth Environment Xi’an (IEE); Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology; Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk Utrecht; Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University Utrecht; Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech); The University of Hong Kong (HKU); China Geological Survey; University of Michigan System; Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE); Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE); University of Washington Seattle; Xi'an University of Science and Technology; University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); University of California (UC); Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT); China University of Geosciences Wuhan (CUG); Nanjing University (NJU); This study was supported financially by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Strategic Priority Research Program (XDB 40000000), the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program (2019QZKK0707), the Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences (QYZDB-SSW-DQC021), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Laureate Fellowship grant FL120100050 to E.J.R., ARC grant DP120103952 to A.P.R., ERC consolidator grant MAGIC 649081 to G.D.-N., and Heising-Simons Foundation Grant #2016-05 to C.J.P.; European Project: 649081,H2020,ERC-2014-CoG,MAGIC(2015)
Abstract: International audience ; 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 CO 2 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 CO 2-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.
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