Holocene moisture changes in western China, Central Asia, inferred from stalagmites

Y Cai, JCH Chiang, SFM Breitenbach, L Tan… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Central Asia lies at the convergence between the Mediterranean and Asian monsoon
climates, and there is a complex interaction between the westerlies with the monsoon to …

Spatio-temporal distribution of Quaternary loess across Central Asia

Y Song, Y Li, L Cheng, X Zong, S Kang… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Central Asia (CA) is one of the main loess regions in the world and provides important
information for the understanding of paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental changes …

[HTML][HTML] Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road

L Tan, G Dong, Z An, RL Edwards, H Li, D Li… - Science bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Arid Central Asia (ACA), with its diverse landscapes of high mountains, oases, and
deserts, hosted the central routes of the Silk Roads that linked trade centers from East Asia …

A new method for the quantitative assessment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a case study on Central Asia

Y Huan, H Li, T Liang - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Regarding the sustainable development goals (SDGs) formulated by the United Nations
(UN), how to effectively measure, assess and compare the progress and trends of these …

Hydroclimatic changes on multiple timescales since 7800 y BP in the winter precipitation–dominated Central Asia

L Tan, H Cheng, D Li, R Orozbaev… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Central Asia (CA) is one of the world's most significant arid regions, which is markedly
impacted by global warming. A better understanding of the dynamical processes governing …

Atmospheric blocking induced by the strengthened Siberian High led to drying in west Asia during the 4.2 ka BP event–a hypothesis

A Perşoiu, M Ionita, H Weiss - Climate of the Past, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
Causal explanations for the 4.2 ka BP event are based on the amalgamation of seasonal
and annual records of climate variability that was manifest across global regions dominated …

Eolian dust dispersal patterns since the last glacial period in eastern Central Asia: insights from a loess-paleosol sequence in the Ili Basin

Y Li, Y Song, KE Fitzsimmons, H Chang… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
The extensive loess deposits of the Eurasian mid-latitudes provide important terrestrial
archives of Quaternary climatic change. As yet, however, loess records in Central Asia are …

High-altitude agro-pastoralism in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan: New excavations of the chap farmstead (1065–825 cal bc)

G Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, K Tabaldiev… - Journal of Field …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The highlands of Central Asia posed considerable challenges to early
agriculturalists, yet the processes of human subsistence strategies there remain poorly …

Late Holocene hydroclimatic variation in central Asia and its response to mid-latitude Westerlies and solar irradiance

J Lan, J Zhang, P Cheng, X Ma, L Ai… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydroclimatic variations in central Asia are widely recognized to be tele-connected with the
North Atlantic climate via the mid-latitude Westerlies. However, the long-term hydroclimatic …

Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene

EM Finestone, PS Breeze, SFM Breitenbach, N Drake… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin
dispersal during the Middle Pleistocene. However, the scarcity of stratified and dated …