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dc.contributor.authorThamban, M.
dc.contributor.authorKawahata, H.
dc.contributor.authorRao, V.P.
dc.date.accessioned2008-01-31T07:07:13Z
dc.date.available2008-01-31T07:07:13Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Oceanography, Vol.63; 1009-1020p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/722
dc.description.abstractIndian monsoon precipitation fluctuated significantly during the Holocene and a reliable reconstruction of the timing of the events and their implications is of great benefit to our understanding of the effect and response of low latitude climate systems to the forcing factors. High-resolution terrigenous proxy studies on a laminated sediment core from the Oxygen Minimum Zone of the eastern Arabian Sea margin is carried out to reconstruct the summer monsoon-controlled precipitation changes during the Holocene. The temporal variation in the terrigenous proxy indicators of this core, in combination with other high-quality cores from the Arabian Sea, suggests several abrupt events in monsoon precipitation throughout the Holocene. The early Holocene monsoon intensification occurred in two abrupt steps at 9500 and 9100 years BP and weakened gradually thereafter, starting at 8500 years BP. A weakening in precipitation recorded at approx. 7000 years BP, synchronous with similar conditions in India. One of the most significant weak monsoon periods recorded in our studies lies between 6000 and 5500 years BP. Spectral analysis of the precipitation records reveals statistically significant periodicities at 2200, 1350, 950, 750, 470, 320, 220, 156, 126, 113, 104 and 92 years. Most of these millennial-to-centennial cycles exist in various monsoon records as well as the tree ring delta sup(14) C data and/or other solar proxy records. It is suggested that throughout the Holocene, externally, small changes in solar activity controlled the Indian monsoon to a large extent, whereas internally, non-solar causes could have influenced the amplitude of decadal-to-centennial oscillations.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTERRAPUB
dc.subjectpalaeo studies
dc.subjectsummer
dc.subjectmonsoons
dc.subjectseasonal variations
dc.subjectholocene
dc.subjectsediments
dc.subjectclimatic changes
dc.subjectoxygen minimum layer
dc.subjectatmospheric precipitation
dc.subjectsolar power
dc.titleIndian summer monsoon variability during the Holocene as recorded in sediments of the Arabian Sea: Timing and implications
dc.typeJournal Article


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