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Eolian dust dispersal patterns since the last glacial period in eastern Central Asia: insights from a loess-paleosol sequence in the Ili Basin
Yue Li
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth
Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710061, China
Research Group for Terrestrial Palaeoclimates, Max Planck Institute for
Chemistry, Mainz, 55128, Germany
College of Earth Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth
Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710061, China
Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons
Research Group for Terrestrial Palaeoclimates, Max Planck Institute for
Chemistry, Mainz, 55128, Germany
Hong Chang
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth
Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710061, China
Rustam Orozbaev
Institute of Geology, National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic,
Bishkek, 720040, Kyrgyzstan
Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi, 830011, China
Xinxin Li
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth
Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710061, China
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Short summary
This paper finds a close tie between loess magnetic susceptibility and wind strength in the Ili Basin, eastern Central Asia, and identifies three distinct aerodynamic environments with end-member modeling analysis of grain size. The Siberian High is the dominant influence on wind dynamics, resulting in loess deposition, and acts as a teleconnection between the climatic systems of the North Atlantic and East Asia in the high northern latitudes, but not for the mid-latitude westerlies.
This paper finds a close tie between loess magnetic susceptibility and wind strength in the Ili...
