Scientists have discovered a new technique that will shed light on the phenomena of winter monsoons—the heavy autumn and winter rainfalls which can cause floods and landslides across southeast Asia.
While summer monsoons are well researched and understood, there is currently very limited understanding of winter monsoons—especially of how they have changed during periods when there has been no data available fromIt has therefore been difficult to make accurate, long-term predictions about the timing and intensity of winter rainfall in countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia.
By examining an 8,000-year-old stalagmite from a cave in central Vietnam, researchers have been able to extract information about changes in seasonal rainfall patterns in Southeast Asia over thousands of years. A paper detailing their findings, entitled"Deciphering local and regional hydroclimate resolves contradicting evidence on the Asian monsoon evolution," has been published by the journalAnnabel Wolf, now a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Irvine's Department of Earth System Science, said,"The past evolution of the winter and summer monsoons in Southeast Asia has been debated for decades.
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