Continental drift, plateau uplift, and the evolutions of monsoon and arid regions in Asia, Africa, and Australia during the Cenozoic

Multiple shifts to open habitats in Melastomateae (Melastomataceae) congruent with the increase of African Neogene climatic aridity

(2018) Marie Claire Veranso-Libalah et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The monsoon system: Land–sea breeze or the ITCZ?

(2018) Sulochana Gadgil   Journal of Earth System Science

Global cooling and enhanced Eocene Asian mid-latitude interior aridity

(2018) J. X. Li et al.   Nature Communications

Monsoonal upwelling in the western Arabian Sea since the middle Miocene

(2017) Guangsheng Zhuang et al.   GEOLOGY

A Cenozoic terrestrial paleoclimate record from He dating and stable isotope geochemistry of goethites from Western Australia

(2017) Hayden B.D. Miller et al.   GEOLOGY

Paleogene monsoons across India and South China: Drivers of biotic change

(2017) Robert Spicer et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Post-Eocene climate change across continental Australia and the diversification of Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae)

(2017) Michael G. Rix et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

What enhanced the aridity in Eocene Asian inland: Global cooling or early Tibetan Plateau uplift?

(2017) Xiangyu Li et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Continental drift and plateau uplift control origination and evolution of Asian and Australian monsoons

(2017) Xiaodong Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

The Neogene de-greening of Central Asia

(2016) Jeremy K. Caves et al.   GEOLOGY

Out of Africa: biogeographic history of the open-habitat chats (Aves, Muscicapidae: Saxicolinae) across arid areas of the old world

(2016) Niloofar Alaei Kakhki et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Interactions between fluvial and eolian geomorphic systems and processes: Examples from the Sahara and Australia

(2015) Martin Williams   CATENA

Onset of aridification by 34 Ma across the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Central Asia

(2015) Jimin Sun et al.   GEOLOGY

An Eocene–Miocene continuous rock magnetic record from the sediments in the Xining Basin, NW China: indication for Cenozoic persistent drying driven by global cooling and Tibetan Plateau uplift

(2015) Xiaomin Fang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Evolution of the South Asian monsoon wind system since the late Middle Miocene

(2015) Anil K. Gupta et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Late Miocene stepwise aridification in the Asian interior and the interplay between tectonics and climate

(2015) Jimin Sun et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Impacts of uplift of northern Tibetan Plateau and formation of Asian inland deserts on regional climate and environment

(2015) Xiaodong Liu et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Where were the monsoon regions and arid zones in Asia prior to the Tibetan Plateau uplift?

(2015) Xiaodong Liu et al.   National Science Review

The Andean-type Gangdese Mountains: Paleoelevation record from the Paleocene–Eocene Linzhou Basin

(2014) Lin Ding et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Asian monsoons in a late Eocene greenhouse world

(2014) A. Licht et al.   NATURE

Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene

(2014) Zhongshi Zhang et al.   NATURE

Cool equatorial terrestrial temperatures and the South Asian monsoon in the Early Eocene: Evidence from the Gurha Mine, Rajasthan, India

(2014) Anumeha Shukla et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Late Miocene to early Pliocene climate variability off NW Africa (ODP Site 659)

(2014) Christophe Colin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Uplift of the Central Andes of NW Argentina associated with upper crustal shortening, revealed by multiproxy isotopic analyses

(2014) Barbara Carrapa et al.   TECTONICS

Late Cretaceous-early Eocene Laramide uplift, exhumation, and basin subsidence in Wyoming: Crustal responses to flat slab subduction

(2014) Majie Fan et al.   TECTONICS

Outward-growth of the Tibetan Plateau during the Cenozoic: A review

(2014) Chengshan Wang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Linking Tarim Basin sea retreat (west China) and Asian aridification in the late Eocene

(2013) R. Bosboom et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Influence of the Tibetan Plateau uplift on the Asian monsoon-arid environment evolution

(2013) XiaoDong Liu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Objective Identification of the Intertropical Convergence Zone: Climatology and Trends from the ERA-Interim

(2013) Gareth Berry et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Tertiary evolution of the western Tarim basin, northwest China: A tectono-sedimentary response to northward indentation of the Pamir salient

(2013) Hong-Hong Wei et al.   TECTONICS

Lower-tropospheric humidity: climatology, trends and the relation to the ITCZ

(2013) Alexander Läderach et al.   TELLUS SERIES A-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

The last glacial cycle: transient simulations with an AOGCM

(2012) Robin S. Smith et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

The longest voyage: Tectonic, magmatic, and paleoclimatic evolution of the Indian plate during its northward flight from Gondwana to Asia

(2012) Sankar Chatterjee et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tracing the history and biogeography of the Australian blindsnake radiation

(2012) Julie Marin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Eocene monsoon prevalence over China: A paleobotanical perspective

(2012) Cheng Quan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Thermal Controls on the Asian Summer Monsoon

(2012) Guoxiong Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Simulated variations of eolian dust from inner Asian deserts at the mid-Pliocene, last glacial maximum, and present day: contributions from the regional tectonic uplift and global climate change

(2011) Zhengguo Shi et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Recent change of the global monsoon precipitation (1979–2008)

(2011) Bin Wang et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Plate tectonic reconstructions with continuously closing plates

(2011) Michael Gurnis et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

Eocene monsoons

(2011) Matthew Huber et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Early Eocene Asian climate dominated by desert and steppe with limited monsoons

(2011) Zhongshi Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Climatology of the ITCZ derived from ERA Interim reanalyses

(2011) N. Žagar et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Convergent Cenozoic CO2 history

(2011) David J. Beerling et al.   Nature Geoscience

Orbital timing of the Indian, East Asian and African boreal monsoons and the concept of a ‘global monsoon’

(2011) Thibaut Caley et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A revised picture of the structure of the “monsoon” and land ITCZ over West Africa

(2009) Sharon E. Nicholson   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Neogene desertification of Africa

(2009) Brigitte Senut et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Paleoaltimetry of the Tibetan Plateau from D/H ratios of lipid biomarkers

(2009) Pratigya J. Polissar et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics

(2009) Peter Molnar et al.   TECTONICS

Middle Miocene tectonic boundary conditions for use in climate models

(2008) N. Herold et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS