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Weiguo Liu is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to geology and paleoclimatology, isotope analysis in ecology, geological formations and processes, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, tree-ring climate responses, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Liu has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent journals publishing their work include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Chemical Geology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Significant recent papers authored by or involving Liu include:

  • "Pedogenic processes in loess-paleosol sediments: Clues from Li isotopes of leachate in Luochuan loess" (2021), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage" (2020), published in Science Bulletin
  • "Calibrating bacterial tetraether distributions towards in situ soil temperature and application to a loess-paleosol sequence" (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Salinity-controlled isomerization of lacustrine brGDGTs impacts the associated MBT5ME terrestrial temperature index" (2021), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue" (2022), published in Nature Communications

Liu collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Huanye Wang, Zhonghui Liu, Yunning Cao, Jing Hu, and Hongxuan Lu, reflecting ongoing partnerships across multiple projects.

Best Publications

  • Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka

    Zhisheng An;Zhisheng An;Steven M. Colman;Weijian Zhou;Xiaoqiang Li

  • Glacial-Interglacial Indian Summer Monsoon Dynamics

    An Zhisheng;An Zhisheng;Steven C. Clemens;Ji Shen;Xiaoke Qiang

  • New eolian red clay sequence on the western Chinese Loess Plateau linked to onset of Asian desertification about 25 Ma ago

    Xiaoke Qiang;Zhisheng An;Yougui Song;Hong Chang

  • A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Yongjin Wang;Xinggong Kong

  • Multiple expansions of C4 plant biomass in East Asia since 7 Ma coupled with strengthened monsoon circulation

    An Zhisheng;An Zhisheng;Huang Yongsong;Liu Weiguo;Guo Zhengtang

  • Large-scale hydrological change drove the late Miocene C4 plant expansion in the Himalayan foreland and Arabian Peninsula

    Yongsong Huang;Steven C. Clemens;Weiguo Liu;Yi Wang

  • Summer monsoon intensity controls C4/C3 plant abundance during the last 35 ka in the Chinese Loess Plateau: Carbon isotope evidence from bulk organic matter and individual leaf waxes

    Weiguo Liu;Yongsong Huang;Zhisheng An;Steven C. Clemens

  • Astronomical and glacial forcing of East Asian summer monsoon variability

    Youbin Sun;John Kutzbach;Zhisheng An;Steven Clemens

  • Diverse manifestations of the mid-Pleistocene climate transition.

    Youbin Sun;Qiuzhen Yin;Michel Crucifix;Steven C. Clemens

  • Southwest monsoon changes indicated by oxygen isotope of ostracode shells from sediments in Qinghai Lake since the late Glacial

    XingQi Liu;Ji Shen;SuMin Wang;YongBo Wang

  • Compound specific D/H ratios and molecular distributions of higher plant leaf waxes as novel paleoenvironmental indicators in the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Weiguo Liu;Yongsong Huang

  • Multiple controls for the variability of hydrogen isotopic compositions in higher plant n‐alkanes from modern ecosystems

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  • High-resolution absolute-dated Indian Monsoon record between 53 and 36 ka from Xiaobailong Cave, southwestern China

    Yanjun Cai;Zhisheng An;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards

  • Hydrogen isotopic compositions of n-alkanes from terrestrial plants correlate with their ecological life forms

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  • Last deglaciation in the Okinawa Trough: Subtropical northwest Pacific link to Northern Hemisphere and tropical climate

    Youbin Sun;Youbin Sun;Delia W. Oppo;Rong Xiang;Weiguo Liu

  • Total organic carbon isotopes: A novel proxy of lake level from Lake Qinghai in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

    Weiguo Liu;Xiangzhong Li;Zhisheng An;Liming Xu

  • Carbon isotope composition of long chain leaf wax n-alkanes in lake sediments: A dual indicator of paleoenvironment in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Weiguo Liu;Hong Yang;Huanye Wang;Zhisheng An

  • n-Alkane distributions and concentrations in algae, submerged plants and terrestrial plants from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Hu Liu;Weiguo Liu

  • 800-kyr land temperature variations modulated by vegetation changes on Chinese Loess Plateau

    Hongxuan Lu;Weiguo Liu;Weiguo Liu;Hong Yang;Huanye Wang;Huanye Wang

  • Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage

    Cheng Zhao;Cheng Zhao;Eelco J. Rohling;Eelco J. Rohling;Zhengyu Liu;Xiaoqiang Yang

  • Late Miocene episodic lakes in the arid Tarim Basin, western China.

    Weiguo Liu;Zhonghui Liu;Zhisheng An;Zhisheng An;Jimin Sun

  • Pedogenic processes in loess-paleosol sediments: Clues from Li isotopes of leachate in Luochuan loess

    Mao-Yong He;Mao-Yong He;Ji-Bao Dong;Ji-Bao Dong;Zhangdong Jin;Zhangdong Jin;Zhangdong Jin;Chun-Yao Liu

  • Late Holocene coupled moisture and temperature changes on the northern Tibetan Plateau

    Yuxin He;Cheng Zhao;Zheng Wang;Huanye Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhisheng An
Zhisheng An Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhonghui Liu
Zhonghui Liu University of Hong Kong
Chuanlun L. Zhang
Chuanlun L. Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
Weijian Zhou
Weijian Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hong Chang
Hong Chang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Youbin Sun
Youbin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yougui Song
Yougui Song Chinese Academy of Sciences
Junji Cao
Junji Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hailiang Dong
Hailiang Dong China University of Geosciences
Jimin Sun
Jimin Sun Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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