An increasing body of palaeobotanical data demonstrates a series Pliocene and Pleistocene extirpations extinctions plant lineages in western Eurasia, which are believed to have been determined by the climatic properties their related East Asian North American sister lineages. We investigated diversity widespread northern hemispheric family, Fagaceae, during Late Portugal. found high Fagaceae co...

Abstract This study investigates the relationship between central tropical Pacific (CTP) sea surface temperature (SST) and air (SAT) variability un-related to canonical El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over mid-to-high latitude Eurasia during boreal summers past half-century. The results show that their experienced a decadal shift around early 1980s. Before 1980s, Eurasian SAT-CTP SST connec...

[1] We have analyzed the mean climate response pattern following large tropical volcanic eruptions back to the beginning of the 17th century using a combination of proxybased reconstructions and modern instrumental records of cold-season surface air temperature. Warm anomalies occur throughout northern Eurasia, while cool anomalies cover northern Africa and the Middle East, extending all the wa...

Northwestern Russia remains the only region in Northern Eurasia where no regional chironomid-based inference model for quantitative palaeoclimatic reconstructions has been developed. Using palaeolimnological methods, we investigated subfossil chironomid surface sediments from a data set of 98 lakes nine subregions European part Russia. We identified 143 taxa lakes. Multivariate statistical anal...

This article presents the results of a comparative study personal ornaments from Xiaogushan Cave in interregional and regional context formation modern behavior. is Paleolithic Neolithic site Northeast China. In Upper layers site, apart tools, were found— pendants made animal teeth, decorated bone disc. The date matter debate; 2 3 to ~30 ka BP. Like other artifacts (harpoon, needles, point), to...

Before its collision with Eurasia1–5, the Indian Plate moved rapidly, at rates exceeding 140mmyr−1 for a period of 20 million years1,3–7. This motion is 50 to 100% faster than the maximum sustained rate of convergence of themain tectonic plates today8. The cause of such high rates of convergence is unclear and not reproduced by numerical models9,10. Here we show that existing geological data11,...

Abstract Seasonal to decadal variations in Northern Hemisphere jet stream latitude and speed over land (Eurasia, North America) oceanic (North Atlantic, Pacific) regions are presented for the period 1871–2011 from Twentieth Century Reanalysis dataset. Significant regional differences seen on seasonal timescales. Seasonally, range is lower oceans compared land, reduced 20° Eurasia 10° Atlantic w...