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Mingrui Qiang is affiliated with South China Normal University in China, contributing extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio spans 40 publications, with significant work in Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The scientist's primary focus encompasses topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Aeolian processes and effects, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geological formations and processes, Marine and environmental studies, Tree-ring climate responses, and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Mingrui Qiang's recent publications include:

  • "Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Holocene dust storm variations over northern China: transition from a natural forcing to an anthropogenic forcing" (2021) published in Science Bulletin
  • "Long-term herbivore population dynamics in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its implications for early human impacts" (2020) published in Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • "Hominin occupation of the Tibetan Plateau during the Last Interglacial Complex" (2021) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Lateglacial and Holocene climate change in the NE Tibetan Plateau: Reconciling divergent proxies of Asian summer monsoon variability" (2020) published in CATENA

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mingrui Qiang include Xiaozhong Huang, Fahu Chen, Lixiong Xiang, Jun Zhang, and Yuan Li.

The scientist often publishes in recognized scientific venues such as Quaternary Science Reviews, CATENA, Geophysical Research Letters, Frontiers in Earth Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

Best Publications

  • Holocene monsoon climate documented by oxygen and carbon isotopes from lake sediments and peat bogs in China: a review and synthesis

    Jiawu Zhang;Fahu Chen;Jonathan A. Holmes;Hui Li

  • Dust storms and their horizontal dust loading in the Sistan region, Iran

    A. Rashki;A. Rashki;D.G. Kaskaoutis;C.J.deW. Rautenbach;P.G. Eriksson

  • 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

  • Late Quaternary aeolian activity in Gonghe Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

    Mingrui Qiang;Fahu Chen;Lei Song;Xingxing Liu

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene aeolian sedimentation in Gonghe Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Variability, processes, and climatic implications

    Mingrui Qiang;Yanxiang Jin;Xingxing Liu;Lei Song

  • Holocene record of eolian activity from Genggahai Lake, northeastern Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau, China

    Mingrui Qiang;Yingying Liu;Yanxiang Jin;Lei Song

  • A 2000-year dust storm record from Lake Sugan in the dust source area of arid China

    Fahu Chen;Mingrui Qiang;Aifeng Zhou;Shun Xiao

  • Do fine-grained components of loess indicate westerlies: Insights from observations of dust storm deposits at Lenghu (Qaidam Basin, China)

    M. Qiang;L. Lang;Z. Wang

  • A 16-ka lake-level record inferred from macrofossils in a sediment core from Genggahai Lake, northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (China)

    Mingrui Qiang;Lei Song;Fahu Chen;Mingzhi Li

  • Grain size in sediments from Lake Sugan: a possible linkage to dust storm events at the northern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Mingrui Qiang;Fahu Chen;Jiawu Zhang;Ruiping Zu

  • History and possible mechanisms of prehistoric human migration to the Tibetan Plateau

    DongJu Zhang;GuangHui Dong;Hui Wang;XiaoYan Ren

  • Holocene dust storm variations over northern China: transition from a natural forcing to an anthropogenic forcing

    Shengqian Chen;Shengqian Chen;Jianbao Liu;Jianbao Liu;Xin Wang;Shuang Zhao

  • Temporal Change of Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in Sugan Lake, Northwest China during the Late Holocene

    Ai-feng Zhou;Fa-hu Chen;Zong-li Wang;Mei-lin Yang

  • Paleoenvironmental changes recorded in a luminescence dated loess/paleosol sequence from the Tianshan Mountains, arid central Asia, since the Penultimate Glaciation

    Guoqiang Li;Zhiguo Rao;Yanwu Duan;Dunsheng Xia

  • Stable East Asian monsoon climate during the Last Interglacial (Eemian) indicated by paleosol S1 in the western part of the Chinese Loess Plateau

    F.H. Chen;M.R. Qiang;Z.D. Feng;H.B. Wang

  • Early human impacts on vegetation on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during the middle to late Holocene:

    Xiao-zhong Huang;Si-si Liu;Guang-hui Dong;Ming-rui Qiang

  • Aeolian deposits at the southeastern margin of the Tengger Desert (China): Implications for surface wind strength in the Asian dust source area over the past 20,000years

    Mingrui Qiang;Fahu Chen;Zhenting Wang;Guangming Niu

  • Paleoclimatic implications of an 850-year oxygen-isotope record from the northern Tibetan Plateau

    Jonathan A. Holmes;Jiawu Zhang;Fahu Chen;Mingrui Qiang

  • Assessment of the difference between mid- and long chain compound specific δDn-alkanes values in lacustrine sediments as a paleoclimatic indicator

    Zhiguo Rao;Guodong Jia;Mingrui Qiang;Yan Zhao

  • A Tianshan Mountains loess-paleosol sequence indicates anti-phase climatic variations in arid central Asia and in East Asia

    Guoqiang Li;Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Dunsheng Xia;He Yang

  • Impacts of wind velocity on sand and dust deposition during dust storm as inferred from a series of observations in the northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China

    Mingrui Qiang;Fahu Chen;Aifeng Zhou;Shun Xiao

Frequent Co-Authors

Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Aifeng Zhou
Aifeng Zhou Lanzhou University
Xunming Wang
Xunming Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianhui Chen
Jianhui Chen Lanzhou University
Yan Zhao
Yan Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jonathan A. Holmes
Jonathan A. Holmes University College London
Guodong Jia
Guodong Jia Tongji University
Jimin Sun
Jimin Sun Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Qinghai Xu
Qinghai Xu Hebei Normal University
Huizheng Che
Huizheng Che China Meteorological Administration

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