Editorial: The Asian Monsoon

The Asian Monsoon

Early Miocene Asian monsoon

1 Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, 100029 Beijing, China 2 Shandong Institute and Laboratory of Geological Sciences, 250013 Jinan, China 3 Nansen-Zhu International Research Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029 Beijing, China 4 State Key Laboratory of Loess...

East Asian monsoon and paleovegetation

1 CEREGE, CNRS/Université Paul Cézanne UMR 6635, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex, France 2 SKLL, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian 710075, China 3 Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement, UQAM, Montréal PQ, H3C 3P8 Canada 4 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 634, 100029 Beijing, China 5 Institute of Botany, Chinese Acad...

Thermal Controls on the Asian Summer Monsoon

The Asian summer monsoon affects more than sixty percent of the world's population; understanding its controlling factors is becoming increasingly important due to the expanding human influence on the environment and climate and the need to adapt to global climate change. Various mechanisms have been suggested; however, an overarching paradigm delineating the dominant factors for its generation...

Chemical isolation in the Asian monsoon anticyclone

Chemical isolation in the Asian monsoon anticyclone observed in Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE-FTS) data M. Park, W. J. Randel, L. K. Emmons, P. F. Bernath, K. A. Walker, and C. D. Boone National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, ...