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59
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12879
World Ranking
2014
National Ranking
130

Overview

Youbin Sun is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, Global and Planetary Change, and Molecular Biology.

Their primary research topics focus on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geological formations and processes, Cryospheric studies and observations, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Landslides and related hazards, and Climate variability and models.

The scientist has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Direct astronomical influence on abrupt climate variability (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Centennial- to millennial-scale monsoon changes since the last deglaciation linked to solar activities and North Atlantic cooling (2020, Climate of the Past)
  • Asian inland wildfires driven by glacial-interglacial climate change (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • A Global Assessment of Copper, Zinc, and Lead Isotopes in Mineral Dust Sources and Aerosols (2020, Frontiers in Earth Science)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Youbin Sun include:

  • Xingxing Liu
  • Zhisheng An
  • Yuming Liu
  • Steven C. Clemens
  • Fei Guo

The scientist has published in various venues, often contributing to:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • CATENA
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Climate of the Past

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

  • Astronomical timescale and palaeoclimatic implication of stacked 3.6-Myr monsoon records from the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Youbin Sun;Steven C. Clemens;Zhisheng An;Zhiwei Yu

  • Influence of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on the East Asian winter monsoon

    Youbin Sun;Steven C. Clemens;Carrie Morrill;Xiaopei Lin

  • Glacial-Interglacial Indian Summer Monsoon Dynamics

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

  • Nd and Sr isotopic characteristics of Chinese deserts: Implications for the provenances of Asian dust

    Jun Chen;Gaojun Li;Jiedong Yang;Wenbo Rao

  • Orbital‐scale timing and mechanisms driving Late Pleistocene Indo‐Asian summer monsoons: Reinterpreting cave speleothem δ18O

    Steven C. Clemens;Warren L. Prell;Youbin Sun

  • 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

  • Seven million years of wind and precipitation variability on the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Youbin Sun;Zhisheng An;Steven C. Clemens;Jan Bloemendal

  • Improved provenance tracing of Asian dust sources using rare earth elements and selected trace elements for palaeomonsoon studies on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Marion Ferrat;Dominik J. Weiss;Dominik J. Weiss;Stanislav Strekopytov;Shuofei Dong

  • Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoclimatic significance of Late Tertiary aeolian sequences in the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Sun Donghuai;An Zhisheng;J. Shaw;J. Bloemendal

  • Late Pliocene‐Pleistocene changes in mass accumulation rates of eolian deposits on the central Chinese Loess Plateau

    Youbin Sun;Youbin Sun;Youbin Sun;Zhisheng An

  • Preferential dust sources: A geomorphological classification designed for use in global dust-cycle models

    Joanna E. Bullard;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Matthew C. Baddock;Nick Drake

  • 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

  • Millennial-scale oscillations of the westerly jet path during the last glacial period

    Kana Nagashima;Ryuji Tada;Atsushi Tani;Youbin Sun

  • Zr/Rb ratio in the Chinese loess sequences and its implication for changes in the East Asian winter monsoon strength

    Jun Chen;Yang Chen;Lianwen Liu;Junfeng Ji

  • Southern Hemisphere forcing of Pliocene δ18O and the evolution of Indo‐Asian monsoons

    Steven C. Clemens;Warren L. Prell;Youbin Sun;Zhengyu Liu

  • Impacts of post-depositional processes on rapid monsoon signals recorded by the last glacial loess deposits of northern China

    Youbin Sun;Xulong Wang;Qingsong Liu;Steven C. Clemens

  • Amplitude and timing of sea-surface temperature change in the northern South China Sea: Dynamic link to the East Asian monsoon

    Delia W. Oppo;Youbin Sun

  • East Asian monsoon variability over the last seven glacial cycles recorded by a loess sequence from the northwestern Chinese Loess Plateau

    Youbin Sun;Youbin Sun;Youbin Sun;Jun Chen;Steven C. Clemens;Qingsong Liu

  • Tracing the provenance of fine‐grained dust deposited on the central Chinese Loess Plateau

    Youbin Sun;Ryuji Tada;Jun Chen;Qingsong Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhisheng An
Zhisheng An Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven C. Clemens
Steven C. Clemens Brown University
Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Huayu Lu
Huayu Lu Nanjing University
Weiguo Liu
Weiguo Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Weijian Zhou
Weijian Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhangdong Jin
Zhangdong Jin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dominik J. Weiss
Dominik J. Weiss Imperial College London
Qingsong Liu
Qingsong Liu Southern University of Science and Technology
Jun Chen
Jun Chen Nanjing University

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