Solar activity and the westerlies dominate decadal hydroclimatic changes over arid Central Asia

D Yan, H Xu, J Lan, K Zhou, Y Ye, J Zhang, Z An… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydroclimatic changes over arid central Asia (ACA) are not fully understood, primarily due to
the paucity of accurate, high-resolution climatic records. Here we reconstruct hydroclimatic …

Holocene solar activity imprint on centennial‐to multidecadal‐scale hydroclimatic oscillations in arid central Asia

X Liu, Z Rao, CC Shen, J Liu, J Chen… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have been conducted on the Holocene climatic evolution of arid central
Asia (ACA) using various geological proxies. However, the quality of the age control and the …

[HTML][HTML] Solar activity dominated the multidecadal-to centennial-scale humidity oscillations during the Little Ice Age in arid central Asia

X Mao, X Liu, S Feng, J Li, X Li, G Jiang, L Liu - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Climatic instability has major impacts on water resources and catastrophic effects on fragile
ecosystems in arid Central Asia (ACA). Short-term (decadal to centennial) climate …

Abrupt climate change in arid central Asia during the Holocene: A review

X Liu, J Chen, S Chen, H Wang, W Huang, S Feng… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike the long-term (eg, Earth orbital-scale) climatic trend, abrupt climate changes in
westerlies-dominated arid central Asia (ACA) during the Holocene remain unclear. We …

Moisture changes over the last millennium in arid central Asia: a review, synthesis and comparison with monsoon region

FH Chen, JH Chen, J Holmes, I Boomer… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
There is a strong chance that 20th century warming will cause differences in precipitation
distribution, hydrological cycle and effective moisture changes over the globe. Arid central …

Holocene summer temperature in arid central Asia linked to millennial-scale North Atlantic climate events and driven by centennial-scale solar activity

C Huang, Z Rao, Y Li, W Yang, L Liu, X Zhang… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
The millennial-and centennial-scale variability of Holocene climate in arid central Asia
(ACA) is poorly understood, due to the lack of high-resolution records, especially of …

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

Y Zhang, Y Li - Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2022 - Springer
The westerly winds and East Asian summer monsoon play a leading role in climate change
of southwestern North America and eastern Asia since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) …

Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history

F Chen, Z Yu, M Yang, E Ito, S Wang… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
We synthesize palaeoclimate records from the mid-latitude arid Asian region dominated
today by the Westerlies (“arid central Asia”(ACA)) to evaluate spatial and temporal patterns …

[HTML][HTML] Climate variations of Central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales

H Cheng, C Spötl, SFM Breitenbach, A Sinha… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The extent to which climate variability in Central Asia is causally linked to large-scale
changes in the Asian monsoon on varying timescales remains a longstanding question …

[HTML][HTML] Arid central Asia saw mid-Holocene drought

H Xu, J Lan, G Zhang, X Zhou - Geology, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The mid-Holocene hydroclimates and the forcing mechanisms over arid Central Asia (ACA)
are hotly debated in the context of global climate change. It is widely assumed that ACA …