Climate change, vegetation history, and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review

F Chen, J Zhang, J Liu, X Cao, J Hou, L Zhu… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerous studies of changes in the climate, vegetation and landscape responses of the
Tibetan Plateau (TP) during the Holocene have been published in recent decades …

A persistent Holocene wetting trend in arid central Asia, with wettest conditions in the late Holocene, revealed by multi-proxy analyses of loess-paleosol sequences in …

F Chen, J Jia, J Chen, G Li, X Zhang, H **e… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
There are significant differences in the interpretation of the moisture (precipitation) history of
arid central Asia (ACA) during the Holocene, as inferred on one hand from speleothem …

Collapse of the Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in the lower Yangtze region in response to climate change

H Zhang, H Cheng, A Sinha, C Spötl, Y Cai, B Liu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The Liangzhu culture in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) was among the world's most
advanced Neolithic cultures. Archeological evidence suggests that the Liangzhu ancient city …

The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

H Cheng, RL Edwards, A Sinha, C Spötl, L Yi, S Chen… - nature, 2016 - nature.com
Oxygen isotope records from Chinese caves characterize changes in both the Asian
monsoon and global climate. Here, using our new speleothem data, we extend the Chinese …

Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics

H Cheng, H Zhang, C Spötl, J Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Younger Dryas (YD), arguably the most widely studied millennial-scale extreme climate
event, was characterized by diverse hydroclimate shifts globally and severe cooling at high …

[HTML][HTML] East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

F Chen, Q Xu, J Chen, HJB Birks, J Liu, S Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The lack of a precisely-dated, unequivocal climate proxy from northern China, where
precipitation variability is traditionally considered as an East Asian summer monsoon …

A reconstruction of regional and global temperature for the past 11,300 years

SA Marcott, JD Shakun, PU Clark, AC Mix - science, 2013 - science.org
Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is
unprecedented in that time. Here we provide a broader perspective by reconstructing …

Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka

Z An, SM Colman, W Zhou, X Li, ET Brown, AJT Jull… - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
Two atmospheric circulation systems, the mid-latitude Westerlies and the Asian summer
monsoon (ASM), play key roles in northern-hemisphere climatic changes. However, the …

Reconstructing chemical weathering, physical erosion and monsoon intensity since 25 Ma in the northern South China Sea: a review of competing proxies

PD Clift, S Wan, J Blusztajn - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the changing strength of the East Asian summer monsoon has been
controversial because different proxies, many being indirect measures of rainfall, tell …

Chinese cave records and the East Asia summer monsoon

Z Liu, X Wen, EC Brady, B Otto-Bliesner, G Yu… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Speleothem records in southeastern China provide key evidence for past environmental
changes. However, the climatic interpretation of these proxies has remained a great …