Poleward and weakened westerlies during Pliocene warmth

JT Abell, G Winckler, RF Anderson, TD Herbert - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The prevailing mid-latitude westerly winds, known as the westerlies, are a fundamental
component of the climate system because they have a crucial role in driving surface ocean …

Magnetic polarity stratigraphy, provenance, and paleoclimate analysis of Cenozoic strata in the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

J Nie, X Ren, JE Saylor, Q Su, BK Horton… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The growth and deformation history of the Qilian-Nan Shan thrust belt bounding the NE
Qaidam Basin figures importantly in testing models of Tibetan Plateau uplift during the India …

Climatic and environmental conditions during the Pleistocene in the Central Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from GDGTs, stable isotopes and major and …

J Qiao, R Littke, S Grohmann, C Zhang, Z Jiang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Sediments in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region of NW China provide sensitive
records of climate change and its impact on past ecosystems. The Qaidam Basin, located in …

Intensified Central Asian aridification accompanied with strengthened Asian summer monsoons at the 400-kyr band during 4–2 Ma

Q Su, J Nie - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2024 - Elsevier
Central Asian wetting has been accompanied with East Asian precipitation decrease in
recent decades, but whether this is the case on longer timescales is not entirely clear. Here …

Late Cenozoic tectonic activity of the Altyn Tagh range: Constraints from sedimentary records from the Western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

T Zhang, X Fang, Y Wang, C Song, W Zhang, M Yan… - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Altyn Tagh range (ATR) is the northern geological boundary of the Tibetan
Plateau and plays a key role in accommodating its Cenozoic lithospheric deformation …

Obliquity forcing of Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene aridification in the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

Q Su, J Nie, W Han, CN Garzione, P Gao - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the variations of aridification during past warm periods can help
predict future aridification trends. However, the variation of aridity during the warm Pliocene …

June insolation gradient and ice sheet forcing on Qaidam precipitation during the middle Piacenzian warm period

Z Luo, H Wang, RV Heermance, J Nie, J Yang… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Whether the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) migrated westward into the
Asian interior during past warm periods is still unclear but is important for predicting …

Central Asian drying at 3.3 Ma linked to tropical forcing?

Q Su, J Nie, Q Meng, R Heermance… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The processes controlling middle‐latitude environmental changes are poorly understood.
Both high‐latitude ice sheets and tropical oceans can affect climate and environments in …

Chlorite chemical composition change in response to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

C Ye, Y Yang, X Fang, H Hong, C Wang, R Yang… - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eocene-Oligocene climate transition (EOCT) at~ 34 Ma is a pronounced
environmental reorganization that occurred in the Cenozoic era and has been extensively …

Mid-Pleistocene formation of modern-like desert landscape in North China

H Zhao, Y Sun, X Qiang - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
The formation and evolution of the deserts in North China have been extensively studied
over the past three decades. However, due to the complexity of proxy interpretation and …