Chengbang An

TL;DR: In this article, the authors 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 of moisture changes during the Holocene.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a synthesis of multiple lines of evidence for the occurrence of the Westerlies-dominated climatic regime on multi-millennial (sub-orbital) to decadal timescales during the Holocene.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that dramatic environmental change in the Western Loess Plateau of China corresponded with substantial changes in human demography ca. 4000 cal yr B.P.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of measurements of climatically sensitive magnetic properties and soil color from four well-dated loess-paleosol sequences from the northern slopes of the Tienshan Mountains and the Yili River valley, Xinjiang, China, in the core area of arid central Asia (ACA) were presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the literature on the Holocene changes in Chinese and search for regional patterns of Holocene change useful in depicting global patterns, and propose that the middle Holocene Climatic Optimum (8-5 ka BP) in arid to semi-arid China was primarily a delayed response of the low latitude oceans to high latitude peak insolation (9-8 ka BP).