supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2012CB 955301);the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.41175134 and 41305060);the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (Grant No.IRT1018)
A comparison of observations with 20 climate model simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 (CMIP5) revealed that observed dryland expansion amounted to 2.61 × 10^6 km^2 during the 58 yea...
jointly supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB 955301);the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41175134 and 41305060);a China 111 project (Grant No. B13045)
This study examines the expansion of drylands and regional climate change in northern China by analyzing the variations in aridity index (AI), surface air temperature (SAT), precipitation and potential evapotransp...
National Basic Research Program of China,No.2012CB955304
Detecting variation trend in dry-wet conditions can provide information for devel- oping strategic measures to mitigate the impacts of global warming, particularly in dry regions Taking the hilly region of northern Sh...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40325007 and 40121303);the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2004CBT20201);the Outstanding Overseas Chinese Scholars Fund of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2003-1-7);CAS(Grant No.KZCX2-SW-118).
The Red Earth deposit around Xining, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, has beenstudied in terms of soil micro-structure, grain-size distribution, major- and trace-elementchemistry and magne-tostratigraphy. Field investiga...