Reorganization of the Asian climate from one dominated by global planetary wind systems
to a regional monsoon climate is closely related to the surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau …

The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central
Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It …

Knowledge of the topographic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau is essential for
understanding its construction and its influences on climate, environment, and biodiversity …

The uplift of eastern Tibet, Asian monsoon development and the evolution of globally
significant Asian biodiversity are all linked, but in obscure ways. Sedimentology …

The drivers of the evolution of the South Asian Monsoon remain widely debated. An
intensification of monsoonal rainfall recorded in terrestrial and marine sediment archives …

The Asian monsoons are triggered by complex interactions between the atmosphere, Asian
and African orography, and the surrounding oceans, resulting in highly seasonal climate …

Falling atmospheric CO2 levels led to cooling through the Eocene and the expansion of
Antarctic ice sheets close to their modern size near the beginning of the Oligocene, a period …

Within the ongoing controversy regarding the orogeny of the Tibetan Plateau region, two
directly conflicting endmember frameworks have emerged in which either:(1) a high central …

Asian Monsoon rainfall supports the livelihood of billions of people, yet the relative
importance of different drivers remains an issue of great debate. Here, we present 30 million …

Southeastern (SE) Tibet forms the transition zone between the high interior Tibetan Plateau
and the lowlands of southwest China. So understanding the elevation history of SE Tibet, a …