The arid and semi-arid (ASA) region of Asia occupies a large area in the middle latitudes of
the Northern Hemisphere, of which the main body is the ASA region of Central and East Asia …

The ecosystem and societal development over arid Central Asia, the core connecting region
of the Silk Road Economic Belt, are highly sensitive to climate change. The results derived …

Abstract The Taklimakan Desert, the largest sand sea in China, is one of the most important
sources of dust in the world. Millennial-scale abrupt climate changes during the last glacial …

Based on historical and RCP8. 5 experiments, along with 25 Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models, we evaluate the skills of the CMIP5 …

Abstract The “Karakoram Vortex”(KV), hereafter also referred to as the “Western Tibetan
Vortex”(WTV), has recently been recognized as a large-scale atmospheric circulation system …

The availability of freshwater has been and remains a crucial concern in westerlies-
dominated arid Central Asia. Understanding precipitation changes in this area and the …

Multiple studies have reported a shift in the trend of warm season rainfall over arid eastern–
central Asia (AECA) around the turn of the new century, from increasing over the second half …

The precipitation over arid regions may be low, but its environmental impacts can be very
dramatic. The decadal variability in precipitation can also effectively disturb climatic …

Two annually resolved ice core records, one drilled on Mutztagata (7,000 m above sea
level) on the western slope (dated 1952–2002) and the other drilled on Kuokuosele (5,600 …

Moisture sources and transport paths for precipitation are of primary importance for forecasts
and early warning, but are rarely studied in the arid region of China. Our study employed the …