Speleothem records of changes in tropical hydrology over the Holocene and possible implications for atmospheric methane

Recent speleothem records from the tropics of both hemispheres document a gradual decrease in the intensity of the monsoons in the Northern Hemisphere and increase in the Southern Hemisphere monsoons over the Holocene. These changes are a direct response of the monsoons to precession-driven insolation variability. With regard to atmospheric methane, this shift should result in a decrease in Northern Hemisphere tropical methane emissions and increase in Southern Hemisphere emissions. It is plausible that that overall tropical methane production experienced a minimum in the mid-Holocene because of decreased seasonality in rainfall at the margins of the tropics. Changes in tropical methane production alone might, therefore, explain many of the characteristics of Holocene methane concentrations and isotopic chemistry

Atmospheric methane · Atmospheric sciences · Climatology · Geography · Greenhouse gas · Holocene · Meteorology · Methane · Monsoon · Northern Hemisphere · Precipitation · Southern Hemisphere · Speleothem · Temperate climate · Tropics · Environmental Science · Geological formations and processes · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography

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