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Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP

The Asian monsoon (AM) played an important role in the dynastic history of China, yet it remains unknown whether AM-mediated shifts in Chinese societies affect earth surface processes to the point of exceeding natural variability. Here, we present a dust storm intensity record dating back to the fir...

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Autores principales: Chen, Fahu, Chen, Shengqian, Zhang, Xu, Chen, Jianhui, Wang, Xin, Gowan, Evan J., Qiang, Mingrui, Dong, Guanghui, Wang, Zongli, Li, Yuecong, Xu, Qinghai, Xu, Yangyang, Smol, John P., Liu, Jianbao
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32080182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14765-4
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author Chen, Fahu
Chen, Shengqian
Zhang, Xu
Chen, Jianhui
Wang, Xin
Gowan, Evan J.
Qiang, Mingrui
Dong, Guanghui
Wang, Zongli
Li, Yuecong
Xu, Qinghai
Xu, Yangyang
Smol, John P.
Liu, Jianbao
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Chen, Shengqian
Zhang, Xu
Chen, Jianhui
Wang, Xin
Gowan, Evan J.
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Wang, Zongli
Li, Yuecong
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Xu, Yangyang
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Liu, Jianbao
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description The Asian monsoon (AM) played an important role in the dynastic history of China, yet it remains unknown whether AM-mediated shifts in Chinese societies affect earth surface processes to the point of exceeding natural variability. Here, we present a dust storm intensity record dating back to the first unified dynasty of China (the Qin Dynasty, 221–207 B.C.E.). Marked increases in dust storm activity coincided with unified dynasties with large populations during strong AM periods. By contrast, reduced dust storm activity corresponded to decreased population sizes and periods of civil unrest, which was co-eval with a weakened AM. The strengthened AM may have facilitated the development of Chinese civilizations, destabilizing the topsoil and thereby increasing the dust storm frequency. Beginning at least 2000 years ago, human activities might have started to overtake natural climatic variability as the dominant controls of dust storm activity in eastern China.
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spelling pubmed-70330972020-03-04 Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP Chen, Fahu Chen, Shengqian Zhang, Xu Chen, Jianhui Wang, Xin Gowan, Evan J. Qiang, Mingrui Dong, Guanghui Wang, Zongli Li, Yuecong Xu, Qinghai Xu, Yangyang Smol, John P. Liu, Jianbao Nat Commun Article The Asian monsoon (AM) played an important role in the dynastic history of China, yet it remains unknown whether AM-mediated shifts in Chinese societies affect earth surface processes to the point of exceeding natural variability. Here, we present a dust storm intensity record dating back to the first unified dynasty of China (the Qin Dynasty, 221–207 B.C.E.). Marked increases in dust storm activity coincided with unified dynasties with large populations during strong AM periods. By contrast, reduced dust storm activity corresponded to decreased population sizes and periods of civil unrest, which was co-eval with a weakened AM. The strengthened AM may have facilitated the development of Chinese civilizations, destabilizing the topsoil and thereby increasing the dust storm frequency. Beginning at least 2000 years ago, human activities might have started to overtake natural climatic variability as the dominant controls of dust storm activity in eastern China. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7033097/ /pubmed/32080182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14765-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Chen, Shengqian
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Chen, Jianhui
Wang, Xin
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Dong, Guanghui
Wang, Zongli
Li, Yuecong
Xu, Qinghai
Xu, Yangyang
Smol, John P.
Liu, Jianbao
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title_short Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033097/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14765-4
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