[1] Asian monsoon climate variability at geological time scales is modulated by both the Earth’s orbital changes and tectonic uplift of the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Here, using bandpass-filtered versions of previously-published highresolution geological records from Chinese loess, we show that the orbital-scale variability of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) has increased dramatically since th...

Taking the two typical tributaries in the loess plateau as an example, the hydrological effects of water and soil conservation measures were studied with parallel comparative analysis method. The results show that water and soil conservation measures can reduce annual runoff and sediment module, cut down flood peak discharge and lower sediment concentration efficiently. And meanwhile, it also c...

This study proposes the use of marginal abatement cost curves to calculate environmental damages of agricultural systems in China's Loess Plateau. Total system costs and revenues, management characteristics and pollution attributes are imputed into a directional output distance function, which is then used to determine shadow prices and abatement cost curves for soil and nitrogen loss. Marginal...

1 School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China. 2 The CAS/Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Process, Yantai Institute of Costal ZoneResearch, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Yantai 264003,China. 3 State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil ...

In a series of papers published between 1923 and 1932, J Harlen Bretz described an enormous plexus of proglacial stream channels eroded into the loess and basalt of the Columbia Plateau, eastern Washington. He argued that this region which he called the Channeled Scabland, was the product of a cataclysmic flood, which he called the Spokane flood. Considering the nature and vehemence of the oppo...

The frequency of mudflow disasters induced by rainfall in the Loess Plateau is increasing with occurrence global warming. initial water content one basic properties soil, which affects initiation loess mudflow. In this work, field study debris flow gullies Yan’an City, Shaanxi Province, China, was conducted, and main factors that induce gully were summarized. Based on investigation results, a f...

Natural and laboratory ESR dose response curves (DRCs) of [AlO4/h]0 [TiO4/M+]0 were investigated for samples quartz from the Luochuan loess-palaeosol master section, Chinese Loess Plateau. The natural DRCs show a clear divergence above ∼1000 Gy, with much lower D0 values saturation levels observed DRCs, which is in agreement previous study by Tsukamoto et al. (2018). Young (<15 ka) Jingbian – a...