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<p>During the last glacial period, the iconic Greenland ice-core records provide evidence of interstadial warmings with various durations ranging from a century to millennia. However, whether differences in interstadial duration are mirrored by distinct hydroclimate responses in the tropics remains unclear. Here we present four speleothem δ<sup>18</sup>O records from the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) and East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) regions, spanning both short and long interstadials during the last glacial period. Greenland and ISM records show broadly similar isotopic responses across events, however, the EASM records exhibit markedly different δ<sup>18</sup>O depletions between short and long interstadials. Using an isotope-enabled climate model, we attribute these differences to a further northward shift of the Northern Westerlies during short interstadials, driven by intensified high-latitude warming. This shift promoted the northwestward expansion of Western Pacific Subtropical High and hence the delivery of isotopically enriched near-sourced vapor to eastern China, dampening δ<sup>18</sup>O depletion during stadial-to-interstadial transitions. Our findings highlight a previously unrecognized sensitivity of EASM precipitation δ<sup>18</sup>O to nuanced meridional shifts in the Northern Westerlies in contrast to the uniform responses of the ISM during interstadials.</p>

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Interstadial diversity of East Asian summer monsoon linked to changes of the Northern Westerlies

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    2025年8月25日

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  • Xiyu Dong,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Haiwei Zhang,
  • Yuao Zhang,
  • Sune O. Rasmussen,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Yanjun Cai,
  • Shouyi Huang,
  • Gayatri Kathayat,
  • Carlos Pérez-Mejías,
  • Baoyun Zong,
  • Dianbing Liu,
  • Pengzhen Duan,
  • Anders Svensson,
  • Christoph Spötl,
  • Youwei Li,
  • Xiaowen Niu,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Hanying Li,
  • Youfeng Ning,
  • Yao Xu,
  • Xianfeng Wang,
  • Nicolás M. Stríkis,
  • Francisco W. Cruz,
  • Ashish Sinha,
  • Martin Werner,
  • R. Lawrence Edwards,
  • Hai Cheng

摘要

During the last glacial period, the iconic Greenland ice-core records provide evidence of interstadial warmings with various durations ranging from a century to millennia. However, whether differences in interstadial duration are mirrored by distinct hydroclimate responses in the tropics remains unclear. Here we present four speleothem δ18O records from the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) and East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) regions, spanning both short and long interstadials during the last glacial period. Greenland and ISM records show broadly similar isotopic responses across events, however, the EASM records exhibit markedly different δ18O depletions between short and long interstadials. Using an isotope-enabled climate model, we attribute these differences to a further northward shift of the Northern Westerlies during short interstadials, driven by intensified high-latitude warming. This shift promoted the northwestward expansion of Western Pacific Subtropical High and hence the delivery of isotopically enriched near-sourced vapor to eastern China, dampening δ18O depletion during stadial-to-interstadial transitions. Our findings highlight a previously unrecognized sensitivity of EASM precipitation δ18O to nuanced meridional shifts in the Northern Westerlies in contrast to the uniform responses of the ISM during interstadials.