Early Cenozoic Asian Monsoons: Mechanisms and Evolution Through Time

Información del proyecto

ECAMMETT

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 656731

DOI

10.3030/656731

Proyecto finalizado el 5 Octubre 2016

Fecha de la firma de la CE 17 Marzo 2015

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2015

Fecha de finalización 31 Agosto 2017

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 159 460,80

Aportación de la UE

€ 159 460,80

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM
Germany

Objetivo

The Asian Monsoon is primarily driven by continent-ocean thermal contrasts, and frequent hydro-meteorological extreme events emphasize that it is affected by recent global climate change in response to increasing atmospheric level of carbon dioxide (pCO2). The medium and longer-timescale effects of circulation changes in the monsoon system control precipitation in continental Asia and, in the past, shaped Eurasian paleoenvironments and biotic evolution. The Asian monsoons have long been thought to have originated ~23 Million years ago, driven by regional uplift. However, recent studies have shown that the monsoons are millions of years more ancient than previously thought and were regionally similar to today during the high pCO2 Eocene Greenhouse episode. These studies open a vast array of new questions: (1) How did these early monsoons evolve through the Eocene? (2) How did they react to the numerous, short-term hyperthermal and hypothermal pCO2 events that ruled this period? This research project proposes to address these issues by focusing on three key sedimentary records in the Eocene monsoonal realm: in China, Myanmar, and Turkey. After refining the local stratigraphy through U/Pb geochronology of volcanic deposits, the three records will be investigated with respect to different geochemical and mineralogical paleoclimatic proxies. Elemental geochemistry and clay mineralogy will help to understand the evolution of seasonality and precipitation; stable and clumped isotope analyses on pedogenic carbonates and soil organic matter will document past rainfall amount, temperature and pCO2 variations; U/Pb dating on aeolian dust deposits will allow the reconstruction of past wind patterns. The resulting findings will document the short- and long-term variations of the monsoons during the Eocene, and in light of modern global climate change, will furnish the basis for a substantial advance in our understanding of monsoonal forcing factors in a warmer, high-pCO2 world.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › geología › geocronología
• ciencias naturales › ciencias químicas › química inorgánica › compuestos inorgánicos
• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › geología › mineralogía
• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › ciencias de la atmósfera › meteorología › presión atmosférica
• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › ciencias de la atmósfera › climatología › cambios climáticos

Palabras clave

• Monsoons
• Global Warming
• Eocene

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2014-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014

Coordinador

UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 159 460,80
• Dirección: AM NEUEN PALAIS 10 ; 14469 Potsdam ; Alemania
• Región: Brandenburg › Brandenburg › Potsdam
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 159 460,80