Paleoclimatic evolution of Holocene loess and discussion of the sensitivity of magnetic susceptibility and median diameter

Nonlagged Response of Vegetation to Climate Change During the Younger Dryas: Evidence from High‐Resolution Multiproxy Records from an Alpine Lake in Northern China

“…Moreover, the quantitative monsoon precipitation record of Chen, Lu, et al (2015), from northern China, also reveals a weakened EASM during the YD (Figure 4d). In the western extremity of the modern EASM region, an MS record also indicates a weak EASM during the YD, within the range of the dating error (Figure 4e; Zhao et al, 2013).…”

“…Climate records from Northern China indicating a weak EASM during the Younger Dryas (YD). (a) Pollen‐based annual precipitation reconstruction from Gonghai Lake (Chen, Xu, et al, ); (b) reconstructed humidity record from Moon Lake (Wu et al, ); (c) magnetic records from Dali Lake (Liu et al, ); (d) estimated precipitation from Zhenbeitai in the sandy land of northern China (Chen, Lu, et al, ); and (e) magnetic record from Baicaoyuan, on the northwestern edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau (Zhao et al, ). Gray bar corresponds to YD.…”

“…Over the past two decades, many palaeoclimatic records from northern China, focused on the evolution of the EASM, have been published. The archives include lake sediments (Chen, Xu, et al, ; Liu et al, ; Tang et al, ; Wu et al, ), loess‐sand sequences (An et al, ; Chen, Lu, et al, ; Zhao et al, ; Zhou et al, ), peat deposits (Hong et al, , ), and speleothems (Dong et al, ). However, within these studies there are large disparities in sample resolution and age control and in the fidelity of the proxies used.…”

Reconciliation of hydroclimate sequences from the Chinese Loess Plateau and low-latitude East Asian Summer Monsoon regions over the past 14,500years

“…9d) from the Baicaoyuan Section ( Fig. 1b) but is not shown in the nearby (~50 km) Jingyuan Section in the western CLP Zhao et al, 2013;Fig. 9d).…”

“…The hydroclimate in the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), located in northern China, is associated with the EASM variability (e.g., Xiao et al, 2002;Li et al, 2004;Chen et al, 2006;Zhao et al, 2013). An intensification in the southerly monsoonal airflow results in an extension of the rainfall belt into the arid interior of the continent and a complementary reduction in desert coverage in northern China (e.g., Liu and Ding, 1998;Yang and Scuderi, 2010;Lu et al, 2013).…”