*Yoshimi Kubota1, Etsuko Wakisaka2, Steven Clemens3, Ann Holbourn4, Kyung Eun Lee6, Martin Ziegler7, Keiji Horikawa2, Katsunori Kimoto5
(1.National Museum of Nature and Science, 2.University of Toyama, 3.Brown University, 4.Christian-Albrechts-University, 5.JAMSTEC, 6.Korea Maritime University, 7.Utrecht University)
Keywords:Monsoon, East China Sea, Milankovitch cycle, Mg/Ca-temperature, Oxygen isotope
The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) system is involved in the hydrological cycle and in latent heat and energy transport, and thus plays a crucial role in the regional and global climate system. Modern summer sea surface salinity in the northern part of the East China Sea (ECS) is mainly controlled by the discharge of the Yangtze River, which reflects East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) precipitation in the drainage area of the Yangtze River. Site U1429 was drilled by Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 346 in the northern part of the ECS to reconstruct the Yangtze River discharge in high temporal resolution (~100 year resolution). A ~200 m long sediment succession was recovered, which covers the last 400 ky based on a benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotope. A record of oxygen isotope of seawater (δ18Ow) was reconstructed, based on high-resolution Mg/Ca and oxygen isotope measurements of the planktic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber. The δ18Ow shows variations that have been in concert with Chinese spleothem oxygen isotope records on millennial to orbital scales. However, comparison with a global mean δ18Ow reveals that the δ18Ow of U1429 follows the global mean except from MIS 7.3 to MIS 6.4 and from MIS 5.4 to MIS 4, when the δ18Ow of U1429 was higher than the global mean during MIS 7.2, 6.4, 5.4, 5.2, 4 and lower during MIS 7.3, 7.1, 6.5, 5.3, 5.1. These intervals correspond to higher eccentricity periods during the last 400 ky. During these time periods, the amplitude variations of the regional δ18Ow increased, suggesting that the 23 ky amplitude of the EASM precipitation was also enhanced. These results suggest that the 23 ky amplitude of the EASM precipitation has been modulated by the eccentricity.