AUTHOR=Zhang Yancheng , Zhu Kai , Huang Chao , Kong Deming , He Yuxin , Wang Huanye , Liu Weiguo , Xie Zhouqing , Wei Gangjian , Liu Zhonghui TITLE=Asian Winter Monsoon Imprint on the Water Column Structure at the Northern South China Sea Coast JOURNAL=Frontiers in Earth Science VOLUME=9 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.680180 DOI=10.3389/feart.2021.680180 ISSN=2296-6463 ABSTRACT=
Coastal regions of the northern South China Sea (SCS) strongly interact with the Asian monsoon circulation (AMC). Thus, variations of sea surface temperature (SST) here are newly suggested to document AMC changes in an effective manner, but additional physical parameters of oceanic conditions, probably also in relation to the AMC system, remain poorly understood. In this study, we analyzed glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) from a well-dated sediment core YJ, retrieved at the northern SCS coast, to further scrutinize the intrinsic response of water column to winter AMC strength. It shows that within the time frame of past ∼1,000 years, the tetraether index of lipids with 86 carbon atoms (