supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grants Nos. 2010CB833400, 2004CB720200);Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-Q09-04);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 41072142, 40921120406 and 40772116);State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology (SKLLQG)
The expansion of inland Asia deserts has considerably influenced the environmental, social and economic activities in Asia. Aridification of inland Asia, especially timing of the initiation of Asian desertification, i...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2004CB720200 and 2010CB833405);the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-SW-133);the National Natu-ral Science Foundation of China (40872111)
The application of rock magnetism methods to investigating the variations of magnetic minerals in the sediments is an important approach to the reestablishment of paleoclimate evolution. Thus we performed fine magneti...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40525004, 40599420, 40890051);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2007BAC30B00, 2004CB720200, 2006CB400503);the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA, Grant to Hans W. Linderholm)
By combining living trees and archaeological wood, the annual mean temperatures were reconstructed based on ring-width indices of the mid-eastern Tibetan Plateau for the past 2485 years. The climate variations reveale...