Huayu Lu

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the evolution of the climate and precipitation δ18O for the last 21,000 years in models and observations, and proposed an interpretation of the Chinese ǫ18O record that reconciles its representativeness of the East Asia Summer Monsoon (EASM) and its driving mechanism of upstream depletion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the fine-grained Nd-Sr isotopes of the 10 major deserts and sandy lands in North China and the loess in Chinese Loess Plateau were systematically investigated.

TL;DR: This finding revises the understanding of the origin of the Chinese Loess Plateau and provides a potential solution for mismatches between late Cenozoic terrestrial sedimentation and marine geochemistry records, as well as between global CO2 and erosion records.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used paleoclimatic indexes from Chinese loess deposits, which have clear climatic implications and are independently dated, to reconstruct the monsoon precipitation since 21 ka.

TL;DR: Grain-size analysis indicates that Chinese loess generally shows a bimodal distribution with a coarse and a fine component, which is interpreted to be the product of dust storms generated by low-altitude northwesterly winds as discussed by the authors.