The dust cycle is an integral part of the Earth system. Each year, an estimated 2000 Mt dust
is emitted into the atmosphere, 75% of which is deposited to the land and 25% to the ocean …

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 …

Tracing pedogenic processes is fundamental for reconstructing climatic and environmental
changes using loess deposits. Lithium isotopes can serve as a sensitive tracer to unravel …

The last glacial period was characterized by abrupt, millennial-scale climate change. These
climate fluctuations are particularly pronounced in records of the East Asian monsoon …

The regional monsoons of the world have long been viewed as seasonal atmospheric
circulation reversal—analogous to a thermally-driven land-sea breeze on a continental …

Loess deposits are recorders of aeolian activity during past glaciations. Since the size
distribution of loess deposits depends on distance to the dust source, and environmental …

Abstract The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) utilises benchmark
chronostratigraphies to divide geologic time. The reliability of these records is fundamental …

The dynamics of glacial–interglacial monsoon variability can be attributed to orbitally
induced changes in summer insolation and internal boundary conditions. However, the …

The complicity of long-term land surface temperature (LST) changes has been under
investigated and less understood, hindering our understanding of the history and …

Chinese loess and stalagmites are two classic terrestrial archives that have been intensively
studied to reconstruct the characteristics and dynamics of orbital-and millennial-scale …