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A stalagmite-based isotope record (No. H82) from Nanjing Hulu Cave, spanning from 16.5 to 10.3 ka BP, provided strong evidence for a coherence relation between the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) and the North Atlantic climates on millennial time scales. Here we extend the high-resolution δ 18O time series back to 22.1 ka BP with additional 7 230Th dates and 573 stable isotope measurements on the lower part of that sample. The new record with a decadal resolution, piecing together with the previous data, provides a detailed, complete Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)/deglacial history of the EASM. Two centennial-scale weak monsoon events are detected within the analogue H1 event, and can be corre- lated to corresponding Greenland temperature shifts. This suggests a rapid re-organization of atmos- pheric and oceanic circulations during the ice-rafted debris (IRD) event in North Atlantic. A strength- ened EASM event spanning from 19.9 to 17.1 ka BP, firstly reported here, reaches on average a half of the monsoon intensity of B?lling warming with its peak close to the full level. Taking all available evi- dence from continental and oceanic sediments into consideration, we suggest that a forcing mecha- nism behind the event would be a positive feedback of the tropical Pacific Super-ENSO cycles in re- sponse to precessional changes in solar irradiation.
A stalagmite-based isotope record (No. H82) from Nanjing Hulu Cave, spanning from 16.5 to 10.3 ka BP, provided strong evidence for a coherence relation between the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) and the North Atlantic climates on millennial time scales. Here we extend the high-resolution δ 18O time series back to 22.1 ka BP with additional 7 230Th dates and 573 stable isotope measurements on the lower part of that sample. The new record with a decadal resolution, piecing together with the previous data, provides a detailed, complete Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) / deglacial history of the EASM. Two centennial-scale weak monsoon events are detected within the analogue H1 event, and can be corre- lated to corresponding Greenland temperature shifts. This suggests a rapid re- organization of atmos- pheric and oceanic circulations during the ice-rafted debris (IRD) event in North Atlantic. A strength-ened EASM event spanning from 19.9 to 17.1 ka BP, half of the monsoon intensity of B? lling warming with its peak close to the full level. Taking all available evi- dence from continental and oceanic sediments into consideration, we suggest that a forcing mecha- nism behind the event would be a positive feedback of the tropical Pacific Super-ENSO cycles in re- sponse to precessional changes in solar irradiation.