Westerlies Asia and monsoonal Asia: Spatiotemporal differences in climate change and possible mechanisms on decadal to sub-orbital timescales

F Chen, J Chen, W Huang, S Chen, X Huang, L **… - Earth-science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The 'westerlies-dominated climatic regime'(WDCR) in the present interglacial period was
proposed because precipitation/moisture variations between arid central Asia and mid …

Hydroclimatic changes in China and surroundings during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age: spatial patterns and possible mechanisms

J Chen, F Chen, S Feng, W Huang, J Liu… - Quaternary science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Investigating hydroclimatic changes during key periods such as the Medieval Climate
Anomaly (MCA, 1000–1300 AD) and the Little Ice Age (LIA, 1400–1900 AD) is of …

High resolution monsoon precipitation changes on southeastern Tibetan Plateau over the past 2300 years

L Tan, Y Cai, H Cheng, LR Edwards, J Lan… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Climate changes on Southeastern Tibetan Plateau have important impacts on
social and economic development, as well as the ecosystem of southwestern China and …

n-Alkane distributions and concentrations in algae, submerged plants and terrestrial plants from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

H Liu, W Liu - Organic geochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Long chain n-alkanes (C 27–C 33) in lake sediment records are commonly considered to be
terrestrial plant biomarkers when reconstructing paleoclimatic and paleolimnological history …

Time marker of 137Cs fallout maximum in lake sediments of Northwest China

J Lan, T Wang, S Chawchai, P Cheng, K Yu… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Caesium-137 (137 Cs) has no natural source and is commonly employed in
establishing the chronology of recent lake sediments in the Anthropocene epoch. Because …

Spatial patterns of Holocene temperature changes over mid-latitude Eurasia

J Jiang, B Meng, H Wang, H Liu, M Song, Y He… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The Holocene temperature conundrum, the discrepancy between proxy-based Holocene
global cooling and simulated global annual warming trends, remains controversial …

Holocene high-resolution quantitative summer temperature reconstruction based on subfossil chironomids from the southeast margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

E Zhang, J Chang, Y Cao, W Sun, J Shulmeister… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reports the first quantitative summer (mean July) temperature reconstruction
based on subfossil chironomids from the southeast margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau …

Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change

EL McClymont, H Mackay… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To reconstruct past environmental changes, a range of indirect or proxy approaches can be
applied to Quaternary archives. Here, we review the complementary and novel insights that …

Dramatic weakening of the East Asian summer monsoon in northern China during the transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age

J Lan, H Xu, Y Lang, K Yu, P Zhou, S Kang… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Changes in the intensity of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) are critical for
regulating the regional hydrology, ecology, and human civilization, especially in the vicinity …

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 …