Earth's eccentricity cycles and Indian Summer Monsoon variability over the past 2 million years: Evidence from deep‐sea benthic foraminifer
- 1 November 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 28 (21) , 4131-4134
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2001gl013315
Abstract
Spectral analysis of a Uvigerina proboscidea time series from DSDP Site 214 using the Lomb‐Scargle method for unevenly sampled data, exhibits two dominant power peaks at 412 and 94 kyrs over the last 2 million years, which correspond to the Earth's eccentricity cycles. The results indicate that the SW monsoon varied at about 100 kyr and 400 kyr periodicities within Earth's eccentricity domain (Milankovitch range) over the past 2 million years. Wavelet transform analysis reveals the non‐stationary nature of monsoon upwelling over this interval. The amplitude of the 400 kyr cycle in the U. proboscidea time series began to increase at ∼900 kyrs as has also been observed in few recent studies. We do not see a strong relation between eccentricity highs and intense summer monsoons over the studied interval.This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
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