Global warming promotes glacier retreat, snow melting, and permafrost thawing, thereby
increasing landslide activity in alpine mountain regions. However, our understanding of the …

Northwest China has experienced a warming-wetting climate featured by increasing
temperature and precipitation during the past six decades. Recent studies suggested that …

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 …

A comprehensive understanding of groundwater dynamics and its interaction with surface
water under the influence of agricultural activities is essential for local agriculture, ecology …

Arid and semiarid regions account for∼ 40% of the world's land area. Rivers and lakes in
these regions provide sparse, but valuable, water resources for the fragile environments …

In the last two decades, agricultural irrigation areas expanded rapidly in arid Northwest
China (NWC, including North and South Xinjiang and Hexi Corridor) and altered local and …

As an important agricultural and gathering area in arid inland areas of China, the ecological
environments of oasis areas are more sensitive to regional climate change and human …

An increasing number of palaeo-climatic records have been reported to identify the
Holocene climate history in the arid Xinjiang region of northwest China. However, few …

Based on the data on land-use change in Xinjiang from 1990 to 2020, this study uses a
combination of land-use dynamics, the equivalence factor method, the sensitivity index, and …

Abstract Climate variation in Central Asia is examined using changes of climate
classification to obtain geographically specific information of the variation across the region …