scholarly journals Miocene climate change on the Chinese Loess Plateau: Possible links to the growth of the northern Tibetan Plateau and global cooling

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 2097-2108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youbin Sun ◽  
Long Ma ◽  
Jan Bloemendal ◽  
Steven Clemens ◽  
Xiaoke Qiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Chinese Loess Plateau ◽  
Chinese Loess ◽  
Northern Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Global Cooling ◽  
The Chinese Loess Plateau

Qaidam Basin and northern Tibetan Plateau as dust sources for the Chinese Loess Plateau and paleoclimatic implications

Geology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 1031-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pullen ◽  
P. Kapp ◽  
A. T. McCallister ◽  
H. Chang ◽  
G. E. Gehrels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Chinese Loess Plateau ◽  
Chinese Loess ◽  
Northern Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Dust Sources ◽  
The Chinese Loess Plateau

Population history and its relationship with climate change on the Chinese Loess Plateau during the past 10,000 years

The Holocene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 1144-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hu Li ◽  
Chengbang An ◽  
Wenjie Fan ◽  
Weimiao Dong ◽  
Yongtao Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Population History ◽  
Chinese Loess Plateau ◽  
Chinese Loess ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Chinese Loess Plateau

Impacts of land use change and climatic effects on streamflow in the Chinese Loess Plateau: a meta-analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Luuk Fleskens ◽  
Jantiene Baartman ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Simon Moolenaar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Chinese Loess Plateau ◽  
Land Restoration ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
Chinese Loess ◽  
The Chinese Loess Plateau

<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Land use and climate change are recognized as two major drivers affecting surface streamflow. On the Chinese Loess Plateau, implementation of several land restoration projects has changed land cover in recent decades. The main objectives of this study were to understand how streamflow evolved on the Loess Plateau and how land use and climate change have contributed to this change. In this study, we selected 22 hydrological modelling studies covering 25 different watersheds in the Loess Plateau and we performed a meta-analysis by using the hydrological and metrological data collected from these studies. The results indicate a streamflow decrease in 41 of a total of 52 case studies whereas precipitation change was found to be non-significant in the majority of the cases. Streamflow reduction was estimated to be -0.46mm/year by meta-analysis across all case studies. Land use change was estimated to have 63.52% impact on the streamflow reduction whereas climate change accounted for 36.48% of the impact. Using meta-regression, an increasing soil and water conservation area was found to be positively correlated to streamflow reduction. We conclude that in the Chinese Loess Plateau, streamflow shows a decreasing trend and land restoration is the major cause of this reduction. To the knowledge of the authors, this is the first study that estimates streamflow dynamics across many watersheds on the entire Loess Plateau.</p>

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