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Overview

Jun Tian is affiliated with Tongji University in China and focuses their research on Earth and planetary sciences, with an emphasis on environmental science. Their academic contributions span multiple subfields including atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, ecology, oceanography, and astronomy and astrophysics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably geology and paleoclimatology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, isotope analysis in ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological and geophysical studies, as well as seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Jun Tian has published extensively in a range of scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Jun Tian include:

  • An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years, 2020, Science
  • Dole effect as a measurement of the low-latitude hydrological cycle over the past 800 ka, 2020, Science Advances
  • Phytoplankton Community Structure at Subsurface Chlorophyll Maxima on the Western Arctic Shelf: Patterns, Causes, and Ecological Importance, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Millennial atmospheric CO2 changes linked to ocean ventilation modes over past 150,000 years, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • CNN-LSTM based incremental attention mechanism enabled phase-space reconstruction for chaotic time series prediction, 2024, Journal of Electronic Science and Technology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Jun Tian's research activity. Frequent co-authors include Enqing Huang, Jinlong Du, Mitchell W Lyle, Wentao Ma, and Ann Holbourn.

Best Publications

  • An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years.

    Thomas Westerhold;Norbert Marwan;Norbert Marwan;Anna Joy Drury;Anna Joy Drury;Diederik Liebrand

  • A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

    Heiko Pälike;Mitchell W. Lyle;Hiroshi Nishi;Isabella Raffi

  • Deep-sea pollen from the South China Sea: Pleistocene indicators of East Asian monsoon

    Xiangjun Sun;Xiangjun Sun;Yunli Luo;Fei Huang;Jun Tian

  • Astronomically tuned Plio–Pleistocene benthic δ 18 O record from South China Sea and Atlantic–Pacific comparison

    Jun Tian;Pinxian Wang;Xinrong Cheng;Qianyu Li

  • Obscuring of long eccentricity cyclicity in Pleistocene oceanic carbon isotope records

    Pinxian Wang;Jun Tian;Lucas J. Lourens

  • Carbon reservoir changes preceded major ice-sheet expansion at the mid-Brunhes event

    Pinxian Wang;Jun Tian;Xinrong Cheng;Chuanlian Liu

  • A 4-Ma record of thermal evolution in the tropical western Pacific and its implications on climate change

    Li Li;Qianyu Li;Qianyu Li;Jun Tian;Pinxian Wang

  • Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years

    James A. Collins;Enno Schefuß;David Heslop;David Heslop;Stefan Mulitza

  • Millennial-scale dynamics of the winter cold tongue in the southern South China Sea over the past 26 ka and the East Asian winter monsoon

    Enqing Huang;Jun Tian;Stephan Steinke;Stephan Steinke

  • Major Pleistocene stages in a carbon perspective: The South China Sea record and its global comparison

    Pinxian Wang;Jun Tian;Xinrong Cheng;Chuanlian Liu

  • Evolution of the South China Sea and monsoon history revealed in deep-sea records

    Pinxian Wang;Zhimin Jian;Quanhong Zhao;Qianyu Li

  • Thirty million year deep-sea records in the South China Sea

    Pinxian Wang;Quanhong Zhao;Zhimin Jian;Xinrong Cheng

  • X-ray fluorescence core scanning records of chemical weathering and monsoon evolution over the past 5 Myr in the southern South China Sea

    Jun Tian;Xin Xie;Wentao Ma;Haiyan Jin

  • Milankovitch theory and monsoon

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  • A 33 Ma lithostratigraphic record of tectonic and paleoceanographic evolution of the South China Sea

    Qianyu Li;Qianyu Li;Pinxian Wang;Quanhong Zhao;Lei Shao

  • Astronomically modulated Neogene sediment records from the South China Sea

    Jun Tian;Quanhong Zhao;Pinxian Wang;Qianyu Li;Qianyu Li

  • Long-term cycles in the carbon reservoir of the Quaternary ocean: a perspective from the South China Sea

    PinXian Wang;QianYu Li;Jun Tian;ZhiMin Jian

  • East Asian winter monsoon variability over the last glacial cycle: Insights from a latitudinal sea-surface temperature gradient across the South China Sea

    Jun Tian;Enqing Huang;Dorothy K. Pak

  • Simulation of long eccentricity (400‐kyr) cycle in ocean carbon reservoir during Miocene Climate Optimum: Weathering and nutrient response to orbital change

    Wentao Ma;Jun Tian;Qianyu Li;Qianyu Li;Pinxian Wang

  • Evolution and variability of the East Asian summer monsoon during the Pliocene: Evidence from clay mineral records of the South China Sea

    Shiming Wan;Jun Tian;Stephan Steinke;Anchun Li

  • Development of the East Asian monsoon and Northern Hemisphere glaciation: oxygen isotope records from the South China Sea

    Jun Tian;Jun Tian;Pinxian Wang;Xinrong Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitchell W Lyle
Mitchell W Lyle Oregon State University
Roy H Wilkens
Roy H Wilkens University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant
Thomas Westerhold
Thomas Westerhold University of Bremen
Pinxian Wang
Pinxian Wang Tongji University
Qianyu Li
Qianyu Li Tongji University
Stephan Steinke
Stephan Steinke Xiamen University
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Cédric M. John
Cédric M. John Imperial College London
Zhimin Jian
Zhimin Jian Tongji University
Mahyar Mohtadi
Mahyar Mohtadi University of Bremen

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