Liangcheng Tan, Hai Cheng, Dong Li, Rustam Orozbaev, Yanzhen Li, Hai Xu, R Lawrence Edwards, Yougui Song, Le Ma, Fangyuan Lin, Ashish Sinha, Zhisheng An
Central Asia (CA) is one of the world's most significant arid regions, which is markedly impacted by global warming. A better understanding of the dynamical processes governing its Holocene climate variability is critical for a better understanding of possible future impacts of climate change in the region. To date, most of the existing CA paleoclimate records are from the summer precipitation-dominated eastern CA (ECA), with few records from the winter precipitation-dominated western CA (WCA). Here, we present a precisely dated (~6‰) and highly resolved (<4-y) record of hydroclimatic variations from the WCA covering the period between 7,774 and 656 y BP...
April 2, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America