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Jianhui Chen

Jianhui Chen

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
12034
World Ranking
4891
National Ranking
510

Overview

Jianhui Chen is a researcher affiliated with Lanzhou University in China, with a scholarly focus spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad fields, Chen's work concentrates notably on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Molecular Biology.

Their research topics cover:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Climate variability and models
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Chen has contributed research articles to several publication venues, with repeated publications found in:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Science Bulletin
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Chen include:

  • Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP (2020), Nature Communications
  • New insights on Chinese cave δ18O records and their paleoclimatic significance (2020), Earth-Science Reviews
  • Integrated Molecular Characterization of Fumarate Hydratase-deficient Renal Cell Carcinoma (2021), Clinical Cancer Research
  • Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road (2020), Science Bulletin
  • Holocene dust storm variations over northern China: transition from a natural forcing to an anthropogenic forcing (2021), Science Bulletin

Frequent coauthors within Chen's research network include:

  • Fahu Chen
  • Shengqian Chen
  • Aifeng Zhou
  • Haipeng Wang
  • Shuai Ma

Best Publications

  • Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history

    Fahu Chen;Zicheng Yu;Zicheng Yu;Meilin Yang;Emi Ito

  • East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

    Fahu H. Chen;Qinghai H. Xu;Jianhui H. Chen;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • 238 U, 234 U and 232 Th in seawater

    J. H. Chen;R. Lawrence Edwards;G. J. Wasserburg

  • Westerlies Asia and monsoonal Asia: Spatiotemporal differences in climate change and possible mechanisms on decadal to sub-orbital timescales

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Jianhui Chen;Wei Huang;Shengqian Chen

  • Moisture changes over the last millennium in arid central Asia: a review, synthesis and comparison with monsoon region

    Fa-Hu Chen;Jian-Hui Chen;Jonathan Holmes;Ian Boomer

  • Hydroclimatic changes in China and surroundings during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age: spatial patterns and possible mechanisms

    Jianhui Chen;Fahu Chen;Song Feng;Wei Huang

  • A persistent Holocene wetting trend in arid central Asia, with wettest conditions in the late Holocene, revealed by multi-proxy analyses of loess-paleosol sequences in Xinjiang, China

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Jia Jia;Jianhui Chen;Guoqiang Li

  • Holocene East Asian summer monsoon records in northern China and their inconsistency with Chinese stalagmite δ18O records

    Jianbao Liu;Jianhui Chen;Xiaojian Zhang;Yu Li

  • Spatiotemporal precipitation variations in the arid Central Asia in the context of global warming

    FaHu Chen;Wei Huang;LiYa Jin;JianHui Chen

  • Humid Little Ice Age in arid central Asia documented by Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China

    Fahu Chen;Xiaozhong Huang;Jiawu Zhang;J. A. Holmes

  • Holocene vegetation history, precipitation changes and Indian Summer Monsoon evolution documented from sediments of Xingyun Lake, south-west China

    Fahu Chen;Xuemei Chen;Jianhui Chen;Aifeng Zhou

  • Holocene moisture and East Asian summer monsoon evolution in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau recorded by Lake Qinghai and its environs: A review of conflicting proxies

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Duo Wu;Duo Wu;Jianhui Chen;Aifeng Zhou

  • Physical Mechanisms of Summer Precipitation Variations in the Tarim Basin in Northwestern China

    Wei Huang;Song Feng;Jianhui Chen;Fahu Chen

  • Definition of the core zone of the “westerlies-dominated climatic regime”, and its controlling factors during the instrumental period

    Wei Huang;JianHui Chen;XiaoJian Zhang;Song Feng

  • Interannual precipitation variations in the mid-latitude Asia and their association with large-scale atmospheric circulation

    Wei Huang;FaHu Chen;Song Feng;Song Feng;JianHui Chen

  • Palaeosol development in the Chinese Loess Plateau as an indicator of the strength of the East Asian summer monsoon: Evidence for a mid-Holocene maximum

    Haipeng Wang;Jianhui Chen;Xiaojian Zhang;Fahu Chen

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

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Shengqian Chen;Xu Zhang;Xu Zhang;Xu Zhang;Jianhui Chen

  • Rapid warming in mid-latitude central Asia for the past 100 years

    Fahu Chen;Jinsong Wang;Liya Jin;Qiang Zhang

  • Aerosol-weakened summer monsoons decrease lake fertilization on the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Jianbao Liu;Jianbao Liu;Kathleen M. Rühland;Jianhui Chen;Yangyang Xu

  • Decoupled early Holocene summer temperature and monsoon precipitation in southwest China

    Duo Wu;Xuemei Chen;Feiya Lv;Mark Brenner

  • East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

    Fahu Chen;Qinghai Xu;Jianhui Chen;H. John B. Birks

  • Holocene moisture and East Asian summer monsoon evolution in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau recorded by Lake Qinghai and its environs: A review of conflicting proxies

    F. Chen;D. Wu;J. Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Aifeng Zhou
Aifeng Zhou Lanzhou University
Qinghai Xu
Qinghai Xu Hebei Normal University
Song Feng
Song Feng University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Yan Zhao
Yan Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mingrui Qiang
Mingrui Qiang South China Normal University
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Xianyong Cao
Xianyong Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences
David B. Madsen
David B. Madsen University of Nevada Reno
Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences

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