“…Rather than involving a subtle change, monsoon circulation was more substantially affected, leading to reversed seasonal temperature gradients in the eastern Arabian Sea (sensu (Anand et al, 2008)). Principal support for the notion of large changes in monsoonal circulation during MIS3 comes from the west Pacific warm pool (Stott et al, 2002), north China (Wang et al, 2021) and the Japan Sea (Sagawa et al, 2023), suggesting that the wider Asian monsoon circulation displayed significant variability during MIS 3/4.…”