supported by the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China(Grant No.2018YFA0606403)。
Paleoclimate reconstructions show that the arid Central Asia(ACA)is characterized by a wetting trend from the midHolocene(MH)to the Preindustrial period(PI),which has been acknowledged to be a result of increased mean...
supported by the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program (Grant No. XDA05120400)
The stable carbon isotope composition(δ13 C) of lacustrine sediments, which can record changes in past environmental conditions such as the C4/C3 terrestrial vegetation composition, has been widely used for the recon...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41690115 & 41572150);the Strategic Priority Research Program (A) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA20070103);supported by the U.K. National Centre for Atmospheric Science-Climate (NCAS-Climate) at the University of Reading;supported by the University of San Diego (FRG # 2017-18)
Monsoon and arid regions in the Asia-Africa-Australia(A-A-A) realm occupy more than 60% of the total area of these continents. Geological evidence showed that significant changes occurred to the A-A-A environments of ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41501016,41530752,and 91125010);the Scherer Endowment Fund of Department of Geography,Western Michigan University;the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.LZUJBKY-2017-224)
Assessment of the suitability of satellite soil moisture products at large scales is urgently needed for numerous climatic and hydrological researches, particularly in arid mountainous watersheds where soil moisture p...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB429901);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31170667 and 40971283)
Soil moisture is the key resource constraint in arid ecosystems, and has been a focus of research on restoration. However, quantitative studies on the contribution of rainfall to deep soil rainfall infiltration are la...
supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2010CB950202);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40971056 and 41021091);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. LZUJBKY-2009-82)
This study analyzed the temporal precipitation variations in the arid Central Asia (ACA) and their regional differences during 1930-2009 using monthly gridded precipitation from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU). O...
the National Key Program for Developing Basic Sciences (Grant No. 2005CB422001);the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40334038, 40421101);the President Fund of Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Eocene palaeovegetation landscape and palaeoclimate reconstructed from the pollen records in the Jiuquan Basin, northwest China provide some important information on the early uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40575043 and 40233034);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX3-SW-229)
It is very important to develop a universal soil model with higher simplicity and more accuracy, which can be widely applied to very general cases such as wet or dry soil, frozen or unfrozen soil and homogeneous or he...
the NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China);National Innovation Research Team Project (Grant No. 40421101);the NSFC Research Projects (Grant Nos. 40301050 and 40301051)
Detailed examination of sedimentary cores retrieved from Sugan Lake in the northern Qaidam Basin of northwest China’s Tibetan Plateau reveal that fine laminated beddings form in the sediments where water depth exceed...
Short sediment cores retrieved from Bosten Lake, the largest inland freshwater lake in China, were used to explore humidity and precipitation variations in arid central Asia during the past millennium. The chronology ...