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Guoqiang Chu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has a research focus primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Anthropology.

Research topics covered by Guoqiang Chu include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications in a variety of respected venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Quaternary International
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Holocene

Selected recent papers by Guoqiang Chu include:

  • Seasonal drought events in tropical East Asia over the last 60,000 y, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Sihailongwan Maar Lake, northeastern China as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series, 2023, The Anthropocene Review
  • Evaluation of the sources and seasonal production of brGDGTs in lake Sihailongwan (N.E. China) and application to reconstruct paleo-temperatures over the period 60-8 ka BP, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Asynchronous 500-year summer monsoon rainfall cycles between Northeast and Central China during the Holocene, 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • General Holocene warming trend in arid Central Asia indicated by soil isoprenoid tetraethers, 2022, Global and Planetary Change

Guoqiang Chu collaborates frequently with other researchers including Luo Wang, Patrick Rioual, Zeyang Zhu, Qing Sun, and Jiaqi Liu. These collaborations have resulted in multiple coauthored publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Reconstruction of climate and vegetation changes of Lake Bayanchagan (Inner Mongolia): Holocene variability of the East Asian monsoon

    Wenying Jiang;Wenying Jiang;Zhengtang Guo;Xiangjun Sun;Haibin Wu

  • The East Asian winter monsoon over the last 15,000 years: its links to high-latitudes and tropical climate systems and complex correlation to the summer monsoon

    Luo Wang;Jingjing Li;Houyuan Lu;Zhaoyan Gu

  • Distributions and temperature dependence of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in recent lacustrine sediments from China and Nepal

    Qing Sun;Guoqiang Chu;Meimei Liu;Manman Xie

  • The ‘Mediaeval Warm Period’ drought recorded in Lake Huguangyan, tropical South China:

    Guoqiang Chu;Jiaqi Liu;Qing Sun;Houyuan Lu

  • Synchronous 500-year oscillations of monsoon climate and human activity in Northeast Asia.

    Deke Xu;Houyuan Lu;Houyuan Lu;Guoqiang Chu;Guoqiang Chu;Li Liu

  • Biogeochemical evidence of Holocene East Asian summer and winter monsoon variability from a tropical maar lake in southern China

    Guodong Jia;Yang Bai;Xiaoqiang Yang;Luhua Xie

  • Long-chain alkenone distributions and temperature dependence in lacustrine surface sediments from China

    Guoqiang Chu;Qing Sun;Shengqiang Li;Mianping Zheng

  • Natural and anthropogenic forest fires recorded in the Holocene pollen record from a Jinchuan peat bog, northeastern China

    Wenying Jiang;Suzanne A.G. Leroy;Neil Ogle;Guoqiang Chu

  • 500-year climate cycles stacking of recent centennial warming documented in an East Asian pollen record

    Deke Xu;Houyuan Lu;Guoqiang Chu;Naiqin Wu

  • Holocene cyclic climatic variations and the role of the Pacific Ocean as recorded in varved sediments from northeastern China

    Guoqiang Chu;Qing Sun;Manman Xie;Yuan Lin

  • Calibration of alkenone unsaturation index with growth temperature for a lacustrine species, Chrysotila lamellosa (Haptophyceae)

    Qing Sun;Guoqiang Chu;Guoxiang Liu;Song Li

  • Sediment Fluxes and Varve Formation in Sihailongwan, a Maar Lake from Northeastern China

    Guoqiang Chu;Jiaqi Liu;G. Schettler;Jiaying Li

  • Millennial-scale Asian summer monsoon variations in South China since the last deglaciation

    Xisheng Wang;Guoqiang Chu;Mei Sheng;Shuqin Zhang

  • Diatom-based inference of variations in the strength of Asian winter monsoon winds between 17,500 and 6000 calendar years B.P

    Luo Wang;Houyuan Lu;Jiaqi Liu;Zhaoyan Gu

  • Periodicity of Holocene climatic variations in the Huguangyan Maar Lake

    Jiaqi Liu;Houyuan Lü;J. Negendank;J. Mingram

  • An improved methodology of the modern analogues technique for palaeoclimate reconstruction in arid and semi-arid regions

    Wenying Jiang;Joel Guiot;Guoqiang Chu;Haibin Wu

  • Seasonal temperature variability during the past 1600 years recorded in historical documents and varved lake sediment profiles from northeastern China

    Guoqiang Chu;Qing Sun;Xiaohua Wang;Meimei Liu

  • Vegetation and Climate Change during the Last Deglaciation in the Great Khingan Mountain, Northeastern China

    Jing Wu;Qiang Liu;Luo Wang;Guo-qiang Chu

  • Dust records from varved lacustrine sediments of two neighboring lakes in northeastern China over the last 1400 years

    Guoqiang Chu;Qing Sun;Gu Zhaoyan;Patrick Rioual

  • A 1600 year multiproxy record of paleoclimatic change from varved sediments in Lake Xiaolongwan, northeastern China

    Guoqiang Chu;Qing Sun;Xiaohua Wang;Dong Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiaqi Liu
Jiaqi Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Houyuan Lu
Houyuan Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jörg F. W. Negendank
Jörg F. W. Negendank University of Potsdam
Tungsheng Liu
Tungsheng Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoping Yang
Xiaoping Yang China Earthquake Administration
Anson W. Mackay
Anson W. Mackay University College London
Qingzhen Hao
Qingzhen Hao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhengtang Guo
Zhengtang Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Dabang Jiang
Dabang Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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