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Shiming Wan is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a total of 174 publications within this primary field. Their subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Recent publications by this scientist include the following papers:

  • "Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0 ka BP," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Birth of the Pearl River at 30 Ma: Evidence from sedimentary records in the northern South China Sea," 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Climate-Driven Weathering Shifts Between Highlands and Floodplains," 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Expansion of C4 plants in South China and evolution of East Asian monsoon since 35 Ma: Black carbon records in the northern South China Sea," 2023, Global and Planetary Change
  • "A synthesis of monsoon exploration in the Asian marginal seas," 2022, Scientific Drilling

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with this researcher include:

  • Anchun Li
  • Debo Zhao
  • Zhaojie Yu
  • Christophe Colin
  • Zehua Song

Their work has been published in a variety of venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Best Publications

  • Reconstructing chemical weathering, physical erosion and monsoon intensity since 25 Ma in the northern South China Sea: A review of competing proxies

    Peter D. Clift;Peter D. Clift;Shiming Wan;Jerzy Blusztajn

  • Development of the East Asian monsoon: Mineralogical and sedimentologic records in the northern South China Sea since 20 Ma

    Shiming Wan;Anchun Li;Peter D. Clift;Jan Berend W. Stuut

  • Yangtze- and Taiwan-derived sediments on the inner shelf of East China Sea

    Kehui Xu;John D. Milliman;Anchun Li;J. Paul Liu

  • Provenance, structure, and formation of the mud wedge along inner continental shelf of the East China Sea: A synthesis of the Yangtze dispersal system

    Kehui Xu;Anchun Li;J. Paul Liu;John D. Milliman

  • Rapid transition from continental breakup to igneous oceanic crust in the South China Sea

    H. C. Larsen;H. C. Larsen;G. Mohn;M. Nirrengarten;Z. Sun

  • Development of the East Asian summer monsoon: Evidence from the sediment record in the South China Sea since 8.5 Ma

    Shiming Wan;Anchun Li;Peter D. Clift;Hengyi Jiang

  • Deep sea records of the continental weathering and erosion response to East Asian monsoon intensification since 14 ka in the South China Sea

    Dengke Hu;Dengke Hu;Philipp Böning;Cornelia M. Köhler;Stephen Hillier

  • Holocene evolution in weathering and erosion patterns in the Pearl River delta

    Dengke Hu;Dengke Hu;Peter D. Clift;Peter D. Clift;Philipp Boning;Robyn E. Hannigan

  • Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of weathering and erosion in southwest China

    Shiming Wan;Samuel Toucanne;Peter D. Clift;Debo Zhao

  • Increased contribution of terrigenous supply from Taiwan to the northern South China Sea since 3 Ma

    Shiming Wan;Anchun Li;Peter D. Clift;Shiguo Wu

  • Enhanced silicate weathering of tropical shelf sediments exposed during glacial lowstands: A sink for atmospheric CO2

    Shiming Wan;Shiming Wan;Peter D. Clift;Peter D. Clift;Debo Zhao;Niels Hovius

  • History of Asian eolian input to the West Philippine Sea over the last one million years

    Shiming Wan;Shiming Wan;Zhaojie Yu;Peter D. Clift;Hanjie Sun

  • Sensitive grain-size records of Holocene East Asian summer monsoon in sediments of northern South China Sea slope

    Jie Huang;Anchun Li;Shiming Wan

  • Extreme weathering/erosion during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Evidence from sediment record in the South China Sea

    Shiming Wan;Wolfram M. Kürschner;Peter D. Clift;Anchun Li

  • History of Yellow River and Yangtze River delivering sediment to the Yellow Sea since 3.5 Ma: Tectonic or climate forcing?

    Jin Zhang;Shiming Wan;Shiming Wan;Peter D. Clift;Jie Huang

  • Pyrite sulfur isotopes constrained by sedimentation rates: Evidence from sediments on the East China Sea inner shelf since the late Pleistocene

    Xiting Liu;David Fike;Anchun Li;Jiang Dong

  • 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

  • Synchronicity of Kuroshio Current and climate system variability since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Xufeng Zheng;Anchun Li;ShuhJi Kao;Xun Gong

  • ITCZ and ENSO pacing on East Asian winter monsoon variation during the Holocene: Sedimentological evidence from the Okinawa Trough

    Xufeng Zheng;Anchun Li;Shiming Wan;Fuqing Jiang

  • History of Asian eolian input to the Sea of Japan since 15 Ma: Links to Tibetan uplift or global cooling?

    Xingyan Shen;Shiming Wan;Shiming Wan;Christian France-Lanord;Peter D. Clift

  • ENHANCED SILICATE WEATHERING OF TROPICAL SHELF SEDIMENTS EXPOSED DURING GLACIAL LOWSTANDS: A SINK FOR ATMOSPHERIC CO2

    Peter D. Clift;Shiming Wan;Debo Zhao;Niels Hovius

Frequent Co-Authors

Anchun Li
Anchun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter D. Clift
Peter D. Clift University College London
Tiegang Li
Tiegang Li Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Christophe Colin
Christophe Colin University of Paris-Saclay
Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Xuefa Shi
Xuefa Shi First Institute of Oceanography
Christian France-Lanord
Christian France-Lanord University of Lorraine
Shuh-Ji Kao
Shuh-Ji Kao Hainan University
Samuel Toucanne
Samuel Toucanne French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Zhifei Liu
Zhifei Liu Tongji University

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