Northern hemisphere ice sheet expansion intensified Asian aridification and the winter monsoon across the mid-Pleistocene transition

Three modes of climate change since the Last Glacial Maximum in arid and semi-arid regions of the Asian continent

(2022) Yuxin Zhang et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of the Xining loess in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2022) Zongyao Li et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Provenance of Quaternary aeolian silts in western China and its spatial difference with source of the Yellow River sediments

(2022) Guangliang Yang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Large-number detrital zircon U-Pb ages reveal global cooling caused the formation of the Chinese Loess Plateau during Late Miocene

(2022) Hanzhi Zhang et al.   Science Advances

Spatial variation of East Asian winter monsoon evolution between northern and southern China since the last glacial maximum

(2021) Qin Li et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Diverse Regional Sensitivity of Summer Precipitation in East Asia to Ice Volume, CO 2 and Astronomical Forcing

(2021) A. Q. Lyu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

On the Cause of the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition

(2021) C. J. Berends et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Sea level and deep-sea temperature reconstructions suggest quasi-stable states and critical transitions over the past 40 million years

(2021) Eelco J. Rohling et al.   Science Advances

Evidence for a Northern Hemispheric trigger of the 100,000-y glacial cyclicity

(2021) Maayan Yehudai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asian inland wildfires driven by glacial–interglacial climate change

(2020) Yongming Han et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Onset of permanent Taklimakan Desert linked to the mid-Pleistocene transition

(2020) Weiguo Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

The Early-Middle Pleistocene transition of Asian summer monsoon

(2020) Xianzhe Peng et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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(2020) Kenneth G. Miller et al.   Science Advances

The 3.6-Ma aridity and westerlies history over midlatitude Asia linked with global climatic cooling

(2020) Xiaomin Fang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diverse manifestations of the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

(2019) Youbin Sun et al.   Nature Communications

Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

(2019) Paul Kapp et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Joint influence of surface erosion and high-latitude ice-sheet extent on Asian dust cycle during the last glacial maximum

(2019) Xinzhou Li et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Mid-Pleistocene transition in glacial cycles explained by declining CO2 and regolith removal

(2019) M. Willeit et al.   Science Advances

Acycle: Time-series analysis software for paleoclimate research and education

(2019) Mingsong Li et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

A Transient Modeling Study of the Latitude Dependence of East Asian Winter Monsoon Variations on Orbital Timescales

(2019) Xiaoxun Xie et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Regional and global signals in seawater δ18O records across the mid-Pleistocene transition

(2019) Heather L. Ford et al.   GEOLOGY

Two-million-year-old snapshots of atmospheric gases from Antarctic ice

(2019) Yuzhen Yan et al.   NATURE

Source-to-sink fluctuations of Asian aeolian deposits since the late Oligocene

(2019) Youbin Sun et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A multi-proxy climatic record from the central Tengger Desert, southern Mongolian Plateau: Implications for the aridification of inner Asia since the late Pliocene

(2018) Zaijun Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Simulated precipitation changes in Central Asia since the Last Glacial Maximum

(2018) Xiaojian Zhang et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

A new correlation between Chinese loess and deep-sea δ18O records since the middle Pleistocene

(2018) Chunsheng Jin et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Expansion of Dust Provenance and Aridification of Asia Since ~7.2 Ma Revealed by Detrital Zircon U-Pb Dating

(2018) Hanzhi Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

(2017) Thomas B. Chalk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paleomagnetic chronology and paleoenvironmental records from drill cores from the Hetao Basin and their implications for the formation of the Hobq Desert and the Yellow River

(2017) Baofeng Li et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Simulating the mid-Pleistocene transition through regolith removal

(2016) Clay R. Tabor et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Eolian cannibalism: Reworked loess and fluvial sediment as the main sources of the Chinese Loess Plateau

(2016) A. Licht et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Available data point to a 4-km-high Tibetan Plateau by 40 Ma, but 100 molecular-clock papers have linked supposed recent uplift to young node ages

(2016) Susanne S. Renner   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years

(2016) Carolyn W. Snyder   NATURE

Palaeoclimatic records of the loess/palaeosol sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau

(2016) Barbara A. Maher   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Modelling the enigmatic Late Pliocene Glacial Event — Marine Isotope Stage M2

(2015) Aisling M. Dolan et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Warming-induced northwestward migration of the East Asian monsoon rain belt from the Last Glacial Maximum to the mid-Holocene

(2015) Shiling Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Plio-Pleistocene humidity fluctuations in the western Qaidam Basin (NE Tibetan Plateau) revealed by an integrated magnetic–palynological record from lacustrine sediments

(2015) Christian Herb et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

The concept of global monsoon applied to the last glacial maximum: A multi-model analysis

(2015) Dabang Jiang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment

(2015) Junsheng Nie et al.   Nature Communications

Paleoaltimetry reconstructions of the Tibetan Plateau: progress and contradictions

(2015) Tao Deng et al.   National Science Review

Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years

(2014) E. J. Rohling et al.   NATURE

Thermohaline circulation crisis and impacts during the mid-Pleistocene transition

(2014) L. D. Pena et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2014) Chengshan Wang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Improved dust representation in the Community Atmosphere Model

(2014) S. Albani et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Paleoclimate simulations of the mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum by FGOALS

(2013) Weipeng Zheng et al.   ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

The Community Earth System Model: A Framework for Collaborative Research

(2013) James W. Hurrell et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Evolving sources of eolian detritus on the Chinese Loess Plateau since early Miocene: Tectonic and climatic controls

(2013) Zhong Chen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

High regional climate sensitivity over continental China constrained by glacial-recent changes in temperature and the hydrological cycle

(2013) R. A. Eagle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Magnetic parameter variations in the Chaona loess/paleosol sequences in the central Chinese Loess Plateau, and their significance for the middle Pleistocene climate transition

(2013) Yougui Song et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Pliocene–Pleistocene stepwise drying of Central Asia: Evidence from paleomagnetism and sporopollen record of the deep borehole SG-3 in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Maotang Cai et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Delayed build-up of Arctic ice sheets during 400,000-year minima in insolation variability

(2012) Qingzhen Hao et al.   NATURE

Two-phase growth of high topography in eastern Tibet during the Cenozoic

(2012) E. Wang et al.   Nature Geoscience

Evolution of Ocean Temperature and Ice Volume Through the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition

(2012) H. Elderfield et al.   SCIENCE

La2010: a new orbital solution for the long-term motion of the Earth

(2011) J. Laskar et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Southern Ocean dust–climate coupling over the past four million years

(2011) Alfredo Martínez-Garcia et al.   NATURE

Seasonally asymmetric transition of the Asian monsoon in response to ice age boundary conditions

(2010) Hiroaki Ueda et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Absolute chronology for major Pleistocene advances of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

(2010) Greg Balco et al.   GEOLOGY

Changing color of Chinese loess: Geochemical constraint and paleoclimatic significance

(2010) Youbin Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The Last Glacial Termination

(2010) G. H. Denton et al.   SCIENCE

Links between iron supply, marine productivity, sea surface temperature, and CO2over the last 1.1 Ma

(2009) Alfredo Martínez-Garcia et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Rapid and cyclic aeolian deposition during the Last Glacial in European loess: a high-resolution record from Nussloch, Germany

(2009) Pierre Antoine et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Early onset and origin of 100-kyr cycles in Pleistocene tropical SST records

(2007) Zhonghui Liu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS