Whether during past climate stages or into a progressively warming world, changes in
precipitation constitute a key component of climatic change. Quantitative proxies for palaeo …

Dust transport by the wind is not a uniform process but may occur in different modes
according to source area conditions and transport height and distance. Subsequently, these …

The Asian monsoon (AM) played an important role in the dynastic history of China, yet it
remains unknown whether AM-mediated shifts in Chinese societies affect earth surface …

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a
vital component of the environment. This is because of their role in biogeochemical cycling …

Permafrost is a distinct feature of the terrestrial Arctic and is vulnerable to climate warming.
Permafrost degrades in different ways, including deepening of a seasonally unfrozen …

Asian dust storms have long been a major environmental concern in China, affecting the
lives of about one billion people. However, it is unclear whether the mechanisms …

Grain size analyses of three hilltop, primary eolian loess sequences in the Negev desert,
southern Israel, show a bimodal grain-size distribution at 50–60 μm and 3–8 μm. Using …

The grain-size distributions (GSDs) of loess–paleosol sequences may provide valuable
information on provenance, transport and paleoclimate variability, and consequently, a wide …

AMS14C dating and grain-size analysis for Core PC-6, located in the middle of a mud area
on the inner shelf of the East China Sea (ECS), were used to rebuild the Holocene history of …

Uncertainty about the geological processes that deposited syngenetically frozen ice‐rich silt
(yedoma) across hundreds of thousands of square kilometres in central and northern Siberia …