Recent centennial drought on the Tibetan Plateau is outstanding within the past 3500 years.

ABSTRACT: Given growing concerns about global climate change, it is critical to understand both historical and current shifts in the hydroclimate, particularly in regions critically entwined with global circulation. The Tibetan Plateau, the Earth's largest and highest plateau, is a nexus for global atmospheric processes, significantly influencing East Asian hydroclimate dynamics through the synergy of the Asian Monsoon and the Westerlies. Yet, understanding historical and recent hydroclimate fluctuations and their wide-ranging ecological and societal consequences remains challenging due to short instrumental observations and partly ambiguous proxy reconstructions. Here, we present a precisely-dated 3476-year precipitation reconstruction derived from tree-ring δ¹⁸O data on the Tibetan Plat

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11790959 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature