REVIEW article

Front. Earth Sci., 12 September 2022

Sec. Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism

Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.977250

Variability of indian monsoon and its forcing mechanisms since late quaternary

  • 1. South China Sea Marine Survey and Technology Center, State Oceanic Administration, Guangzhou, China

  • 2. Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Survey Technology and Application, Ministry of Natural Resources, Guangzhou, China

  • 3. Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE, College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

  • 4. Laboratory for Marine Geology, and Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

Abstract

The Indian monsoon is an important part of the global monsoon system, allowing important transfers of moisture at a large geographical scale and deeply affecting human populations and economic prosperity of regions. The tropical summer monsoon in the Northern Hemisphere is generally considered to be driven by low latitude solar radiation. Therefore, the summer monsoon strength is near zero-phase to the maximum of Northern Hemisphere Summer Insolation (NHSI). However, records from the Arabian Sea and some other parts of the Indian Ocean (e.g., Andaman Sea) show that a ∼8 kyr phase difference exists between the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) strength and the northern Hemisphere Summer Insolation maxima, which is obviously different from the records of stalagmites in the East Asia and other marine sediments (e.g., Bay of Bengal). This leads to the “sea-land precession phase paradox” in indian summer monsoon research. This paper systematically summarizes the Indian monsoon variability on orbital scale indicated by various records from the Indian monsoon regions (including oceans and continents) since the late Quaternary. The orbital forcing of Indian monsoon, the potential phase difference between indian summer monsoon and northern Hemisphere Summer Insolation and its possible forcing mechanism(s) are further discussed. The observed phase lag between indian summer monsoon and northern Hemisphere Summer Insolation may be controlled by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), latent heat transfer between the southern Indian Ocean and the Asian continent, or caused by the lack of tightly coupling between the Arabian Sea summer monsoon proxies and the monsoon intensity. In addition, it is still unclear whether previous monsoon proxies can provide a strong constraint on the intensity of summer monsoon. Environmental magnetism has been widely used in high-resolution dating and the analysis of paleoclimate variabilities in marine and terrestrial sediments, due to its high sensitivity on the rainfall and temperature. Therefore, in order to solve these issues, it is necessary to combine magnetic parameters with geochemical and paleontological parameters for more systematic work in the future.

1 Introduction

The Indian monsoon, or South Asian monsoon (Gupta and Anderson, 2005), a subsystem of the Asian monsoon, is an important part of the global monsoon system, and represents one of the Earth’s most dynamic interactions between atmosphere, oceans and continents (Clemens et al., 1991). In boreal summer, the Indian summer monsoon (ISM), driven by the cross-equatorial pressure gradient between the Tibet Low in the Asian continent and the Mascrene High in the southern Indian Ocean (Webster et al., 1998; ), controls the environment of Northern Indian Ocean and the seasonal climate of India, Myanmar, Indochina Peninsula and even Southwest China. In boreal winter, the reversal pressure gradient leads to the Northeast monsoon (Figure 1). The wet summer monsoon brings the dominant precipitation and potential geological disasters in the monsoon areas, which affects the human populations and economic prosperity of regions (Sinha et al., 2005; Hao et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2018; ). Moreover, as two important subsystems of the Asian monsoon system, the Indian monsoon and the East Asian monsoon are both controlled by the seasonal land-sea thermal contrast. At the same time, the uplifting of the Tibetan Plateau, the ice sheet variabilities and the thermohaline circulation also affect the formations and evolutions of those two monsoons (e.g., Prell and Kutzbach, 1992; Rea, 1992; , ; Clift et al., 2008; Wang, 2009; Deeken et al., 2011; ; Li et al., 2014; , ; Hao et al., 2016; Tada et al., 2016).

FIGURE 1

In the modern monsoon climatology, due to the increase of solar radiation in Northern Hemisphere, the thermal contrast between the Asian continent and the Indian-Pacific Ocean brings moisture-laden winds blowing from southwest-southeast to the continent during June-August as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) move northward. So, the strength of Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon corresponds to the maxima of Northern Hemisphere Summer Insolation (NHSI) (Kutzbach, 1981; Ruddiman, 2006; Wang, 2006, 2009; Wang et al., 2018; , ). The variation of solar radiation at the low latitude is the main driving force of the orbital-scale changes of summer monsoon (Kutzbach, 1981, 2008), therefore, precession is the main controlling factor of low latitude climate processes by regulating when the Earth reaches perihelion (Ruddiman, 2001; Wang et al., 2018).

Oxygen isotope records of stalagmites in East Asia indicate that the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) has been dominated by the ∼23 kyr precession cycles since the late Pleistocene, which is consistent with the traditional monsoon hypothesis that low latitude insolation forcing is dominant. However, a phase lag (∼3 kyr) exists between the strength of EASM and the maxima of NHSI (e.g., Wang et al., 2001, 2008; Yuan et al., 2004; Ruddiman, 2006; , ), which is also observed between the East African monsoon strength and the maxima of NHSI reconstructed by Mediterranean sapropels (Lourens, 2004; Revel et al., 2010; ). Marine sedimentary records from the Arabian Sea in the northern Indian Ocean, indicate that a phase lag of ∼8 kyr exists between the marine primary productivity and the NHSI in precession-band (Clemens et al., 1991, 2008, 2010; Reichart et al., 1998; , 2007; Wang et al., 2005). Then, the question is the main forcing mechanism of this phase lag and whether it is a regional event or a common event.

The solutions to those problems are significant for understanding the evolution of Indian monsoon on the orbital-scale since the late Pleistocene. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to sort out the achievements and debates in the research of the variation and main driving factors of the Indian monsoon since the late Pleistocene, clarify the advantages of environmental magnetism on solving these problems, and puts forward prospects for future studies.

2 Proxies and paleo-monsoon variability

2.1 Monsoon proxies

Systematic studies on the Indian monsoon evolution since Pleistocene benefited from the long-term record of marine sediment, where the Arabian Sea coastal upwelling and the sapropel deposits from the Mediterranean are classic and most representative (Rossignol-Strick, 1983; Prell et al., 1984). These two records reflect the application of wind-based and rain-based proxies for the Indian and African monsoon, respectively. Generally, monsoon proxies can be classified into two categories depending on the primary aspects of the monsoon. One type is the proxies related to the winds (direction, strength and persistence), and the other is those associated with rainfall (Table 1) (Wang et al., 2005, 2014). In the Indian monsoon regions, upwelling is most frequently used to indicate the wind intensity (Clemens and Prell, 1991; ; Ziegler et al., 2010a; Saraswat et al., 2019). The high abundance of microfossils (G. bulloides % and G. ruber %) in marine sediments at low latitudes is a major indicator of upwelling driven by the ISM (Kroon and Ganssen, 1989; Kroon et al., 1991; Jian et al., 2001). However, the microfossils are also sensitive to external environmental factors unrelated to the monsoon (Wang et al., 2014). reconstructed the variability of ISM using the grain size of sediment ODP Site 722, and proposed that it could reflect the transport capacity of southwest monsoon. However, grain size is usually affected by some complex hydrodynamic conditions during sediment transport and accumulation, and cannot reflect the intensity of southwest monsoon simply. Therefore, took a multi-proxy approach to calculate the ISM factor by analyzing five proxies (grain size, Ba counts, δ15N, G. bulloides% and opal mass accumulation rate). However, limitations still exist because most of the five proxies are indicators of marine productivity. The high productivity may not only be induced by ISM, but also other process, such as changes in ocean nutrients related to ice-volume cycles and migration from the continental shelf (Ruddiman, 2006; Wang et al., 2014). Subsequently, the sequence of ISM variability was obtained by summing up numerous independent records of wind-driven productivity, including Ba counts, Ba/Al, Ti/Al, and planktonic foraminifera Mg/Ca (temperature indicators) (Ziegler et al., 2010a, 2010b; ; Gebregiorgis et al., 2018; Stephanie et al., 2022).

TABLE 1

Features and processesProxiesArchivesExampleReferences
Wind-based proxiesWind transportgrain sizeMarine sedimentsArabian Sea
Ti/Al ratioReichart et al. (1997); Sirocko et al. (2000)
Pollen types and assemblagesVan Campo et al. (1982)
Wind-driven upwellingUpwelling-indicative phytoplankton and zooplankton, e.g., G. bulloides, N. dutertreiMarine sedimentsArabian SeaClemens and Prell (1991); ; Saraswat et al. (2019)
Benthic foraminifera indicative of high carbon fluxden Dulk et al. (2000)
Wind-induced structure of surface oceanGeochemical proxies indicative of high productivity, e.g., Corg, opal, Ba, Ba/Al, δ15N, etc.Marine sedimentsArabian Sea; Maldives; Ziegler et al. (2010b); ; Kim et al. (2018);
Thermocline depth based on microfossilsBay of Bengal
planktonic foraminifera indicate SST (Mg/Ca)Andaman SeaGebregiorgis et al. (2018)
Rain-based proxiesPrecipitationSpeleothem δ18OCave speleothemIndian subcontinent; Southwest China; Kotlia et al. (2015); Kathayat et al. (2016, 2017)
δ13C (C3/C4 plants)Lacustrine depositsNorthern IndiaKumar et al. (2022)
Weathering and pedogenesisClay mineralsHemipelagic sedimentsArabian Sea; Bay of BengalThamban et al. (2002); Limmer et al. (2012); Joussain et al. (2016)
Chemical weathering indices
Magnetic susceptibilityMarine sediments; Lacustrine sedimentsBay of Bengal; Heqing BasinWeber et al. (2003)
Magnetic grain size (ARM/SIRM ratio)Xu et al. (2022)

A simplified summary of commonly used monsoon proxies in the region of India Monsoon.

Based on the new records of ISM variability from the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean, showed that changes in upper water column structure and stratification in this region are dominated by wind-driven mixing. They use the planktic foraminiferal species G. ruber and N. dutertrei, recorders of upper mixed layer and thermocline conditions, respectively, to construct a new record (δ18OG. ruber minus δ18ON. dutertrei, δ18Or-d). Kim et al. (2018) considered that denitrification in the Arabian Sea is closely related to the monsoon-induced upwelling and subsequent phytoplankton production in the surface water. δ15N values were high during interglacial periods, indicating intensified denitrification. These are an effective improvement and exploration of wind-based proxies. Unfortunately, these proxies still do not break the bounds of monsoon-driven productivity.

On the other hand, rain-based proxies of chemical weathering in marine sediment have been used extensively. ISM, which accounts for the rainfall in Indian subcontinent can alter vegetational cover, runoff, erosion and weathering, and thus increase sediment transport to the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal (Pandey et al., 2016; Clift, 2017), indicating a good coupling relationship between continental weathering/denudation and monsoon evolution (Thamban et al., 2002; Pandarinath, 2009; Das et al., 2013). The enhancement of the summer monsoon is accompanied by the increase of humidity index (such as kaolinite/chlorite and kaolinite/illite) and the increase of terrigenous detrital matter input (Thamban et al., 2002). The smectite/(illite + chlorite) has been confirmed to be ultimately forced by the intensity of chemical weathering in the source region associated with ISM variability (). A number of weathering-related chemical proxies (e.g., CIA, αAlK, etc.), have also been applied to monsoon analysis at orbital timescales (Clift et al., 2014; ), with increased dominance of the ∼100 kyr cycle. However, chemical weathering of source areas recorded in some marine sediments may also be influenced by factors such as temperature, rather than only ISM precipitation (). In addition, the glacial-interglacial cycles lead to sea level fluctuations, such as the extensive exposure of marginal sea shelf during the glacial period, which may affect the spatial distribution pattern of precipitation in the provenance (). Moreover, the changes of local ocean currents and shelf material transport in glacial-interglacial cycles may also lead to local environmental variations in marine sediments (Wang et al., 2014; Lu et al., 2020). Thus, how to effectively separate the temperature signals from the geological record of the summer monsoon is still worthy of further study. Fortunately, with the rapid development of speleothem paleoclimatology and highly precise dating technique of 230Th in the last decade, the latest high-resolution rain-based proxies mainly from the cave speleothem of the Indian subcontinent and southwest China, are more widely used for paleoclimatic studies (Yuan et al., 2004; Wang et al., 2005; ). At the orbital and millennium scales, speleothem δ18O shows a relatively consistent variation throughout the Asian monsoon region (Fleitmann et al., 2003; Yuan et al., 2004; Wang et al., 2005; ; Wang et al., 2008; Kotlia et al., 2015; Mishra et al., 2018), reflecting the circulation state in large space area and is a proxy of the ISM intensity from water vapor source to cave point (Kathayat et al., 2016, 2017). The stronger (weaker) ISM means that the cave has a higher ratio of water vapor from distant (near) source, showing a negative (positive) speleothem δ18O (Yuan et al., 2004; Pausata et al., 2011; Kotlia et al., 2015). δ18O variability in northern India is linked to periods of strong (weak) ISM circulation (Sinha et al., 2015). Strong (weak) ISM periods are characterized by enhanced (reduced) flux of isotopically depleted Bay of Bengal moisture and reduced (enhanced) flux of isotopically enriched Arabian Sea moisture (Sinha et al., 2015; Kaushal et al., 2018). As stalagmites are ultimately fed by rainwater, δ18O reflects such changes in ISM circulation dynamics (Kaushal et al., 2018). The precession cycle of speleothem δ18O series is obvious, which accords with the classical solar insolation driving theory of summer monsoon, and is also supported by the simulation results of different models (Liu et al., 2014; Tabor et al., 2018; Kutzbach et al., 2020). In addition, δ13C values of lacustrine archive from India were used to determine the past plant (C3/C4 plants) variability driven by ISM (; Kumar et al., 2022). Although it is relatively easy to obtain the samples, due to the limitation of the chronological sequence, it can only reflect the high resolution of millennial-scale variability.

It is remarkable that almost all new, high-resolution archives of paleo-monsoon variability are associated with precipitation rather than wind processes (Wang et al., 2014). However, the extent to which these proxies act as a strongly constrained indicator of summer monsoon intensity remains unclear.

2.2 Indian Monsoon variability since late quaternary

Since late Quaternary, many paleoclimate records show significant warming in the North Hemisphere and unconventionally stronger ISM (Yin and Guo, 2007; Ziegler et al., 2010a; ). However, Ziegler et al. (2010b) conducted a comprehensive analysis of sediment record based on the core MD 04–2881, the high primary productivity in MIS 13 was not the result of an increase in the ISM, but of the strengthening of AMOC. The αAlK and smectite/(illite + chlorite) from IODP Site U1456 all indicate the enhancement of chemical weathering in provenance during MIS 13, confirming stronger ISM () (Figure 2). These interglacial periods (e.g., MIS 11, 9, and 5) are characterized by higher values of αAlK (), further confirming the coupling between chemical weathering and ISM (; ). Those proxies (δ15N, grain size, Ba counts, Opal flux and G. bulloides %) of ISM indicate that the intensity of ISM increased firstly and reached a high value at about 300 ka, and then decreased during 300–250 ka (; Ziegler et al., 2010a; Gupta et al., 2010; ). Saraswat et al. (2019) studied the δ18O data of foraminifers in the eastern Arabian Sea over the past 350 ka, and observed an intense upwelling between MIS 7 (243–191 ka) and the early of MIS six caused by the intensification of ISM. To the late Pleistocene, the δ18O records of two stalagmites from Tianmen Caves, the first cave records from the Tibetan Plateau, indicate the ISM strengthened significantly during MIS 5a, 5c, and 5e (Figure 3) (, ). During warm sub-stages of MIS 5 (115–80 ka), the smectite/(illite + chlorite) maxima in the Bay of Bengal may be associated with intensification of ISM rainfall (Joussain et al., 2016). During 80–30 ka, the ISM intensity oscillated at intermediate levels between the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and Holocene (Kudrass et al., 2001). The LGM is characterized by high seawater δ18O values, low gradient and low Ba/Ca which indicate the weaker ISM (Duplessy, 1982; Kudrass et al., 2001; Gebregiorgis et al., 2016). The proxy of humidity for sediments in the western continental margin of India indicates that the ISM in general was weaker during the late glaciation, with distinct events of intensification during 28–22 ka and 15.7–14.8 ka (Thamban et al., 2002). The depleted δ18O values during early Holocene indicate the stronger ISM (Yuan et al., 2004; ; Dutt et al., 2015; Kathayat et al., 2016, 2017). Early to mid-Holocene ISM variability is characterized by a gradual intensification of monsoon rainfall (Rawat et al., 2012, 2015a, 2015b; Mishra et al., 2015a, 2015b; Gebregiorgis et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2020). The late Holocene witnessed a reduced rainfall activity and weak ISM (Thamban et al., 2002; Morrill et al., 2003; Dixit et al., 2014, 2018; Prasad et al., 2014, 2020; Dutt et al., 2018; Giesche et al., 2019; Phartiyal et al., 2020).

FIGURE 2

) and ODP722 (), respectively. July 21 insolation at 65°N (grey) is plotted for comparison; (C) Ba counts record of MD04-2881 (Loulergue et al., 2008); (D) Variations in αAlK at Site U1456 (); (E) Site 758 δ18O(r-d) record (); (F) Ice volume corrected δ18Osw of SK 168 (Gebregiorgis et al., 2016); (G) Core 22 variation in Magnetic Susceptibility (MS) (Weber et al., 2003); (H) Temporal variations in Smectite/(Chlorite + Illite) (S/C + I) values (Joussain et al., 2016).

FIGURE 3

); (C) δ18O from Hulu Cave (purple) (Wang et al., 2001), Dongge Caves (dark blue) (Yuan et al., 2004), Sanbao Cave [light green (Wang et al., 2008), dark green ()] and Linzhu Cave (yellow-green) ().

2.2.1 Orbital-scale variability

Solar insolation is the main external forcing factor of global climate change, and the interactions of the Earth’s different layers modulated the amplitude and phase of climate response to solar insolation at different spatial and temporal scales through various physical, chemical and biological processes and feedback mechanisms (; Wang et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2017). According to Milankovitch’s astronomical climatology theory (Milankovitch, 1969), the periodic variation of solar radiation with latitude and season caused by changes in Earth’s orbital parameters (eccentricity, obliquity and precession) is the fundamental driving force of climate change and ice age cycles at the 103–104 years scale. The influence of Earth orbital forcing on the long-term evolution of Indian monsoon has been recorded in deep-sea cores, lake sediments and stalagmites (Ziegler et al., 2010a; ; ). Previous researches demonstrated that the climate evolution of Indian monsoon is dominated by precession (∼23 ka), obliquity (∼41 ka) and eccentricity (∼100 ka) cycles (e.g., ; ; Kelly et al., 2005; Kunkelova et al., 2018; Lindhorst et al., 2019; Lu et al., 2020).

Previous orbital-scale studies of the ISM mainly used proxies of phytoplankton (G. bulloides) from the northern Arabian Sea (Prell et al., 1984; Prell and Van Campo, 1986; Clemens and Prell, 1991), grain size (Clemens and Prell, 1990; Krissek and Clemens, 1992), Ti/Al and excess Ba MAR (Shimmield et al., 1990), biogenic opal and organic carbon MAR (Murray and Prell, 1991). In addition, various physical, chemical and biological parameters (e.g., dust flux, organic carbon content, planktonic and benthic foraminifera) are also used to indicate the intensity of ISM (Ziegler et al., 2010a, 2010b; ; ; Saraswat et al., 2019). Upwelling caused by the strong ISM controls marine primary productivity and contributes to the flourishing of unique plant and animal species in the northern Indian Ocean (e.g., G. Bulloides %). Productivity changes are associated with low-latitude processes in the Indian Ocean, independent of ice sheet growth and decline (Reichart et al., 1998; ). Information about monsoon variability and its seasonality is thus preserved in these marine biotas (e.g., planktonic and benthic foraminifera) (Ziegler et al., 2010a; Saraswat et al., 2019).

Comprehensive information on multiple proxies from marine sediments and terrestrial materials all indicate that ISM is dominated by a precession cycle in the long-term evolution (; Yuan et al., 2004; , , ; ; Dutt et al., 2015; Kathayat et al., 2016, 2017), and thus the ISM co-varies with the solar insolation in the Northern Hemisphere summer on the precession scale (e.g., ; Clemens et al., 2008, 2010; , ; Kathayat et al., 2016, 2017). However, solar insolation at low latitudes varies not only in precession cycles, but also in eccentricity and obliquity cycles. found that the obliquity and precession accounted for 26% and 18% of the variability of ISM, respectively, for the past 350 ka. Thus, it was proposed that obliquity is the driving force of the ISM rather than precession. A high-resolution record from Heqing Basin of southwestern China demonstrates that the Pleistocene ISM showed the orbital cycle signals of both eccentricity and precession. This may be because that the interhemispheric pressure gradient plays an important role in driving the ISM on glacial-interglacial cycles (). The changes of clay mineral recorded in the Bay of Bengal and the eastern Arabian Sea since late Quaternary are relatively synchronous with the evolution of ISM, indicating that ISM is an important factor controlling weathering/erosion in South Asia on a millennium time scale (Thamban et al., 2002; Pandarinath, 2009; Das et al., 2013). Some proxies studied on the Bengal and India Fan provide palaeoclimatic evidence of monsoonal rainfall dynamics from provenance and their response to orbital forcing documented in the eccentricity (; Lu et al., 2020) and obliquity band (Weber et al., 2018), but not obvious precession. The climate information recorded in marine sediments may be complicated due to the “Thermohaline Circulation” and the changes of nutrients in the glacial cycle caused by local ocean currents and the transport of shelf materials, and thus cannot display a pure precession cycle (Ziegler et al., 2010a; Lu et al., 2020). Unlike marine sediments, speleothem δ18O provides a “fossil” record of rain, with relatively straightforward monsoon information (Wang et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2017).

In conclusion, the Indian monsoon may be controlled by many factors (e.g., AMOC, insolation, ice volume, and latent heat export, etc.). Different proxies for monsoon may provide conflicting understandings of the ISM evolution, leading to multiple points on the dynamic properties. Therefore, the combination of a variety of geological records and proxies is the key for a better understanding of the evolution and dynamics of the ISM on orbital-scale (e.g., Prell and Kutzbach, 1992; Clemens et al., 2008, 2010; , ; ; Rawat et al., 2021). Moreover, numerical simulation is also an indispensable method to verify the causal relationship between orbital forcing and ISM (Prell and Kutzbach, 1992; Kutzbach et al., 2008; Ziegler et al., 2010a, b).

2.2.2 Sub-orbital variations

The complexity of monsoon variability is also influenced by the high latitude climate to some extent, which is highlighted in the sub-orbital scale. Global monsoon variations in the sub-orbital scale are punctuated by a series of millennial-scale events (e.g., Heinrich, YD, Bǿlling/Allerǿd, etc.) at least over the past several glacial-interglacial cycles (Figure 4) (Demske et al., 2009; Paul et al., 2012; Rawat et al., 2012; Mishra et al., 2015; ; Wang et al., 2017; Misra et al., 2019). These events have been recorded in speleothems, lake and marine sediments from the Indian monsoon affected areas (Miriyala et al., 2017; ; Gupta et al., 2021; Kumar et al., 2022), and it is consistent with the δ18O record of Greenland ice cores (Yuan et al., 2004; Kelly et al., 2005). The variation of AMOC is also often used to explain millennial-scale monsoon events (Wang et al., 2008; ). Likewise, speleothems in southern Tibetan plateau also record some ISM mutation events. Geochemical records of Cariaco Basin and the temperature record of Greenland during the early to mid-Holocene indicate that a relationship exists between the variability of ISM and high latitude climate at the millennium scale (). Additionally, the climate change in the southern hemisphere also has an important influence on the Indian monsoon through trans-equatorial air flow and water vapor transport ().

FIGURE 4

; Rasmussen et al., 2006).

3 Precessional phase difference and its possible mechanisms

The controversy about the phase difference between the Indian monsoon variability and the NHSI in precession-band began in the early 1990s (Figure 5), which was first detected based on the monsoon upwelling tracer (G. bulloides %) correspond to the precession period, but with an 8 kyr phase lag relative to NHSI (Clemens et al., 1991). Later, the composite curve of ISM for the past 350 ka, based on other biological proxies (such as foraminifera assemblages, opal fluxes, etc.), further confirms the existence of this phase difference (Reichart et al., 1998; ; Clemens et al., 2008, 2010). Therefore, it was deduced that the Indian monsoon is controlled not only by NHSI, but also by other factors, such as the thermal difference between the north and south hemisphere, ice sheets, etc. (Clemens et al., 1991, 2010; ). The Indian monsoon water vapor cycle is accompanied by the release of latent heat from the southern Indian Ocean to the Indo-Asia. Thus, the release of latent heat may be the main mechanism of the ∼8 ka lag of ISM in the precession-band (Clemens et al., 1991, 2010). However, the reliability of this phase difference is still disputed. The marine upwelling (or related indexes of productivity) in the Arabian Sea may be associated with the late phase of ISM in August-September, while the ∼8 ka lag may be a response to this late summer insolation (Reichart et al., 1998). Therefore, it is believed that there is actually no phase difference between the insolation change caused by precession and the response of ISM. The ISM proxies used by Clemens et al. (2010) are not tightly coupled to the monsoon intensity. This so-called “phase difference” phenomenon may be affected by other geological processes (Ruddiman, 2006), e.g., the AMOC (Ziegler et al., 2010a), the breeze from the Arabian Sea (Conroy and Overpeck, 2011). The AMOC can control the nutrient transport in the euphotic zone of the Arabian Sea, and further influence the primary productivity and Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZs) intensity. Therefore, it was deduced that AMOC dominates the precession lag of the maximum productivity in the Arabian Sea sediments (Ziegler et al., 2010a; 2010b), and the phase difference may not reflect the typical ISM records, but the breeze from the Arabian Sea (Conroy and Overpeck, 2011). Simulation results also confirmed the non-existence of the 8 kyr phase difference but a ∼2 kyr lag between the ISM and the NHSI, which is consistent with the stalagmite δ18O record in the Asian continent (Kutzbach et al., 2008).

FIGURE 5

). Obliquity is the axial tilt of Earth’s rotation axis with respect to the orbital plane. In the phase wheel representation, the 12 o’clock position is set to precession minima (p min; ω = 90°, 21st June perihelion) obliquity maxima (O max), respectively. Negative/positive phases are measured in the clockwise/anticlockwise direction and represent phase lags/leads relative to p min or O max. Published records plotted (with shaded phase estimate errors) are the Arabian Sea summer monsoon stacks 1 () and 2 (), composite cave δ18O records from China (; ), corrected δ18Osw records from the Andaman Sea (Gebregiorgis et al., 2018), Δδ18O records form Site 758 (), and winter and summer monsoon maxima (Clemens et al., 2008).

In order to further verify this issue, the grain size proxy from the cores nearby, which is independent of the AMOC, was investigated and confirmed that the ISM proxies lag the NHSI by 9 ± 1 kyr in the precession-band (). Subsequently, this phase difference was also found in the sediments of the equatorial eastern Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea. proposed that the phase lag might reflect multiple forcing mechanisms, e.g., insolation, ice volume and latent heat export, based on the gradient of the δ18O difference between two different foraminifera at ODP Site 758. Gebregiorgis et al. (2018) found this phase lag of 9 kyr in the Andaman Sea over the past 1 Ma, which implied that the NHSI may not be the major forcing for the ISM. However, this phenomenon has not been found in the sediments of the Bay of Bengal (Weber et al., 2018; Lauterbach et al., 2020). In the stalagmite records from the northern India and the southwest China, the ISM is almost contemporaneous with the NHSI without phase lag (, ; Kathayat et al., 2016, 2017).

As a complex subsystem of the global monsoon, there must be “no real paradox” between the records of the ISM, whatever lands or seas. In the phase lag records of the Arabian Sea, the complexity caused by interaction of the African summer monsoon with the ISM may not be negligible. And in the southwest China, the relationship between the ISM and the EASM also needs to be considered. In addition, the role of Indian winter monsoon (northeast winds) is unclear. Therefore, different proxies (winds/rainfalls) may reflect different parts of the Indian monsoon system. With further research, it is time to reveal the real truth of this phase difference and to confirm its reliability and inherent mechanism(s) from a global perspective (, ; ).

4 Environmental magnetism contribution to monsoon investigations

4.1 Applications, advantages and limitations

Compared to other analyses (such as mineralogy and geochemistry), environmental magnetic method is rapid, easy, nondestructive, and cost-effective (Thompson and Oldfield, 1986; Evans and Heller, 2004). On Earth, the formation and transformation mechanisms of magnetic minerals are complex. Iron oxides, iron oxyhydroxides and iron sulfides can be converted into each other with many pathways (Dunlop and Özdemir, 1997; Michel et al., 2010; Jiang et al., 2022). The magnetic minerals in sediments and soils are sensitive to the formation environments (e.g., aridity/humidity, warm/cold) and transport process (e.g., wind, current). It is estimated that each iron atom in the sediments undergoes as many as 100 cycles of reduction and oxidation before being permanently buried (Thamdrup, 2000). Therefore, magnetic minerals are used to provide evidence for a wide range of environmental processes (Thompson and Oldfield, 1986; Evans and Heller, 2004; Liu et al., 2012). For example, hematite and goethite are formed under opposite climate conditions (dry and warm for hematite, wet and cool for goethite) and their formation processes are competitive (Schwertmann 1993). The presence and characteristics of goethite are indicators for soil-weathering conditions and burial history (). The hematite to (hematite + goethite) ratio [Hm/(Hm + Gt)] is controlled by the pedogenetic formation rate and depends primarily on the parent minerals, soil environment and the duration of pedogenesis (Cornell et al., 2003). Furthermore, the magnetofossil is an important source of fine magnetic minerals in sediments, with strong and stable magnetic properties, which can effectively record the changes of magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) ecological environment affected by climate (e.g., Hess, 1994; Snowball et al., 2002). In addition, the magnetic properties of the initial ferromagnetic minerals (e.g., magnetite and titanomagnetite) in the parent material actually determine the magnetic background values in the sediments dominated by detrital magnetic minerals. The later transport process may sort those magnetic particles, and the particle size decreases with the distance between source and depositional areas (Hatfield and Maher, 2009). During post-deposition, magnetic minerals may experience diagenetic process. In oxic environments, the most important diagenetic processes involve surface oxidation of detrital minerals (e.g., Torii, 1997; Liu et al., 2007; ), and precipitation of Fe(III)-bearing minerals from solution (e.g., ; ). In ferruginous environments, the most reactive detrital and authigenic iron oxides undergo dissolution, often mediated by dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria, which releases Fe(II) that becomes available for other reactions (Poulton et al., 2004; Roberts, 2015). In sulphidic environments, Hydrogen sulphide reacts with the Fe(II) released from iron mineral dissolution or directly with solid iron (oxyhydr-)oxide minerals to form iron sulphide minerals (Poulton et al., 2004; Roberts, 2015).

Those environmental magnetic parameters (e.g., magnetic susceptibility (χ), saturated isothermal remanence (SIRM), coercivity (Bc), SIRM/χ, ARM/SIRM, χARM/χ, etc.) proxies of the concentration, mineralogy, and magnetic grain size, can reflect the environmental and climatic information recorded in the sediments (Thompson and Oldfield, 1986; Evans and Heller, 2004). In the early stage, only the contribution of a single magnetic susceptibility parameter was considered in the study of paleoclimate (Heller et al., 1993). With the deepening of research, more and more magnetic proxies have been proposed. In recent years, scholars added many kinds of characteristic information such as mineralogy and spectroscopy with magnetic parameters to quantitatively study the changes of paleo-precipitation and paleo-temperature (e.g., ; Orgeira et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2013; Maxbauer et al., 2016). These quantitative methods, along with earlier more qualitative interpretations, hold enormous potential for understanding environmental variability in the deep past. Therefore, environmental magnetic method has been successfully used to assess the paleoclimate fluctuations recorded by loess/paleosol sequences, lacustrine and marine sediments (e.g., Deng et al., 2001; Liu et al., 2012; ; Liu et al., 2021). In particular, environmental magnetic parameters are used to reconstruct the Asian monsoon evolution successfully. For example, Nie et al. (2017) established an EASM record since the Late Miocene using the lacustrine sediments in the Qaidam Basin, northern China, which exhibits a dominant 100-ky periodicity similar to the EASM records during the Late Quaternary. Liu et al. (2021) showed that the environmental magnetic records from the Tengger Desert, China reveal wet–dry cycles at a dominant frequency of 405 kyr, with drier intervals corresponding to eccentricity minima. These findings are consistent with previous reconstructions of East Asian summer and North African summer monsoon precipitation variability. These results challenge the traditional view that high-latitude ice sheets are the primary driver of East Asian monsoon precipitation during the Quaternary based on Chinese loess records (Figure 6). In marine sediments, the variations of magnetic parameters are also widely used for establishing chronological framework, tracking provenances, current paths, and exploring global climate changes at orbital scale in the global marine sediments (e.g., ; Jiang and Liu, 2016; Yang et al., 2016).

FIGURE 6

); (C) Normalized χ records from the Chinese Loess Plateau (Nie et al., 2017); (D)χARM/SIRM records from core NGC65, North Pacific Ocean (Zhang et al., 2019); (E) ARM/SIRM records from core MD 77–169, the Andaman Sea (Colin et al., 1998).

In addition, several limitations should be considered when using environmental magnetic methods in paleoclimate studies. Firstly, the magnetic particles may still be mobile after deposition in the water-filled substrate. During this depositional process, the remanent magnetization will eventually be locked in at some depth. And this complex “lock-in” manner can cause some troubles for sediment dating by using magnetic method (Evans and Heller, 2004). Secondly, a single magnetic parameter (e.g., χ) may contain complex magnetic mineral information (e.g., components, contents, particles, etc.). It is crucial to select the suitable combination of parameters to separate the information for better understand its implications. Thirdly, different sediments compositions, provenances and post-deposition processes may result in the different interpretations for the magnetic parameters variability (Liu et al., 2012). Therefore, the transformation between different magnetic minerals should be considered for the environmental magnetic interpretation (Jiang et al., 2022). Therefore, more cautions are needed as using environmental magnetism for paleoclimatic studies.

4.2 Studies in the Indian Monsoon regions

In the Indian monsoon regions, although magnetic studies are relatively scarce, the environmental magnetic studies have still provided important evidence for the evolution of ISM. Phartiyal et al. (2003) established the climatic implications of the magnetic clusters and zones from Late Quaternary lacustrine sediments at Pithoragarh palaeolake, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, India, with the correlations of pollen results. Kumar et al. (2020, 2021) first portrayed the moisture sources based on the high-resolution multi-proxy analyses (including environmental magnetism) from India and nearby regions. Their results indicated that the ISM controlled the glacier fluctuations in the Western Himalaya during Late Quaternary. A detailed magnetic analysis of ODP 722B demonstrated that fluctuations in the volume magnetic susceptibility was controlled by carbonate dilution, and the upper ferrimagnetic signal reflected the source area aridity (Hounslow and Maher, 1999). Magnetic susceptibility of the semi-abyssal sediments near the Bengal Fan decreased with the increase of CaCO3 content, indicating the glacial-interglacial climate change, and the variation of magnetic susceptibility has 41 kyr cycles, which may be related to high-latitude forcing (Weber et al., 2003). Colin et al. (1998) studied the magnetic properties of cores MD77-169 and MD77-180 in the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, respectively, which shows a strong 23 kyr magnetic grain-size periodicity related to the chemical weathering driven by ISM rainfall in the past 280 ka. The magnetic grain size parameters (χARM/SIRM, SIRM/χLF, χARM/χLF) can track the variations of chemical weathering and ISM rainfall in the Andaman Sea. The fining of magnetic grain size manifests the associated intensification in chemical weathering during the strong ISM periods. While cold and dry periods are marked by an increase in magnetic grain size indicating the shift from chemical to physical weathering in the source regions (Sebastian et al., 2019). evaluated the sedimentary (rock magnetic, sedimentological, mineralogical and inorganic geochemistry) records of the NGHP-01-17A core to elucidate the tectonic control on the sedimentation and diagenesis in the Andaman Sea over the past ∼1 Ma. They proposed that rock magnetic properties effectively recorded the geological processes that controlled sedimentation over ∼1 Ma in the Andaman Sea. In addition, A comparison of the GISP2 ice core isotopic record shows that rapid temperature variations (e.g., D-O, Heinrich and YD events) during the last glacial period, are also present in magnetic parameters, which reveals a remote correlation between the ISM and the North Atlantic climate (Colin et al., 1998; Li et al., 2006; Sebastian et al., 2019). Therefore, environmental magnetism is an indispensable method for further understanding the evolution of the ISM, especially in combination with other techniques (e.g., mineralogy, isotopic, geochemistry, sedimentology, and foraminiferal, etc.).

5 Conclusion and the way forward

Although a lot of work have been done on the Indian monsoon, there are still some deficiencies and disputes about the evolution of Indian Monsoon on orbital-scale since late Pleistocene, for example, whether the alternative indicators of monsoon in different sea areas can truly reflect the monsoon information? And what is the main forcing mechanism(s) for the phase difference between the Indian monsoon and NHSI? Specifically, at least some new work should be carried out in the following aspects.

1) More records from different regions. Records from different regions response to the Indian monsoon diversely. The ISM is characterized by strong winds and remarkable upwellings in the Arabian Sea, while it is characterized by heavy precipitations in the Bay of Bengal. In order to systematically study the evolution characteristics of the Indian monsoon, it is necessary to carry out systematic research in the Indian monsoon affecting regions. Previous studies mainly focused on the marginal sea of the Indian Ocean (e.g., Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, etc.) and the stalagmite records in the land monsoon regions. However, different conclusions were obtained, e.g., with 8 kyr phase lag in Arabian Sea sediments (Clemens et al., 1991, 2010; ), and without phase lag in Bay of Bengal (Weber et al., 2018; Lauterbach et al., 2020). The equatorial Indian Ocean region is also affected by the Indian monsoon (Figure 1) (e.g., Tomczak and Godfrey, 2003; ; Lüdmann et al., 2013; ; ), but there is a lack of discussion on the phase difference between ISM and NHSI. Therefore, in order to demonstrate whether this phase difference is unique to the sedimentary records of the Indian Ocean, it is necessary to find evidence in wider Indian monsoon control regions, especially in the equatorial Indian Ocean (e.g., Ninetyeast ridge and Maldives).

2) Evidence of other proxies. Most of the proxies used in the previous studies on this precession phase paradox are based on the relevant of marine primary productivity (e.g., planktonic foraminifera abundances, opal fluxes, etc.). There are few tests on physical parameters, especially on magnetism. Environmental Magnetism can trace the formations, transportations and post deposition processes of the magnetic minerals in sediments (Liu et al., 2012; Colombo et al., 2017; Jiang et al., 2022). It is widely used to study large-scale climate and environmental processes. A lot of environmental magnetism works have been carried out in the inner Asia (Deng et al., 2006; Nie et al., 2017; ; Liu et al., 2021), the Pacific Ocean (Zhang et al., 2019), the Japan Sea (), the South China Sea (Yang et al., 2016; Li et al., 2018). The periodic evolution of East Asian Monsoon on different scales and its teleconnection with ice sheets also have been studied. In particular, the methods of environmental magnetism have provided important evidence for sediment provenances and evolutions of the Indian monsoon in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. All these works provided a methodological basis for the paleoclimatic studies in the sediments of the Indian Ocean. Thus, the Environmental Magnetism is one of the effective methods to study the evolutions of Indian monsoon, which is hopeful to make contributions for the question of phase lag between ISM and NHSI.

3) The mechanism of phase difference. Many mechanisms have been proposed for the phase lag between the ISM variability and the NHSI, e.g., the cross equatorial latent heat transfer between the southern Indian Ocean and the Asian continent (; ), the prolonged summer monsoon season related to higher insolation at the end of the summer (Reichart et al., 1998), or those summer monsoon proxies not tightly coupled with the monsoon intensity, but affected by other processes (Ruddiman, 2006; Ziegler et al., 2010a). Therefore, the mechanism of this time lag still needs more discussions.

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Author contributions

LC, YG, LZ, and ZJ designed the study and wrote the paper. All authors provided significant input to the final manuscript.

Funding

This research was funded by the Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao) (No. 2022QNLM050302-5) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 41922026 and 4212005), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (202072001 and 201941007), Taishan Scholars (ts20190918).

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indian monsoon, northern hemisphere summer insolation (NHSI), phase differences, indian ocean, environmental magnetism

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Chen L, Guan Y, Zhou L, Yin Z and Jiang Z (2022) Variability of indian monsoon and its forcing mechanisms since late quaternary. Front. Earth Sci. 10:977250. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.977250

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24 June 2022

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19 August 2022

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12 September 2022

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10 - 2022

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Luigi Jovane, University of São Paulo, Brazil

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Firoz Badesab, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India

Juan Cruz Larrasoaña, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Spain

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