The tiny shells at the bottom of Lake Nakaumi in southwest Japan may contain the secrets of the East Asia Summer Monsoon. This rainy season is fairly predictable, ushering in air and precipitation conducive to growing crops, ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2019
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When it comes to understanding future climate, the south Asian summer monsoon offers a paradox. Most climate models predict that as human-caused global warming increases, monsoon rain and wind will become more intense—but ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2019
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More than a century ago, British meteorologist Henry Blanford noted a connection between springtime snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya mountain range and the intensity of the summer monsoon season in India. Hundreds ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2018
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An international team of earth scientists has linked the establishment of the Mekong River to a period of major intensification of the Asian monsoon during the middle Miocene, about 17 million years ago, findings that supplant ...
Environment
Oct 16, 2018
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In the online edition of Geophysical Research Letters, Dr. Cheung Ching Wa Richard, Dr. Moriaki Yasuhara, Dr. Briony Mamo and Dr. Hokuto Iwatani (from School of Biological Sciences and Swire Institute of Marine Science, the ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2018
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Ancient rainfall records stretching 550,000 years into the past may upend scientists' understanding of what controls the Asian summer monsoon and other aspects of the Earth's long-term climate, reports a University of Arizona-led ...
Earth Sciences
May 24, 2018
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The East Asian summer monsoon and desertification in Eurasia is driven by fluctuating Northern Hemisphere ice volume and global sea level during the Ice Age, as shown in a study published in Nature Communications. Today, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 7, 2018
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The Asian Monsoon System is one of the Earth's largest and most energetic weather systems, and monsoon rainfall is critical to feeding over a billion people in Asia. An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2017
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Solar flux is considered to be the fundamental energy source of Earth's climate system on long time scales. In recent decades, some studies have noted that tiny variations in solar activity could be amplified by the nonlinear ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2017
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In one of the most comprehensive studies on trends in local severe weather patterns to date, an international team of researchers found that the frequency of hail storms, thunderstorms and high wind events has decreased by ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 17, 2017
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