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Zhimin Jian

Zhimin Jian

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
6261
World Ranking
6416
National Ranking
404

Overview

Zhimin Jian is affiliated with Tongji University in China. Their research activity spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Geology.

Their main research topics cover a variety of areas such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Climate variability and models

Zhimin Jian has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhimin Jian include:

  • Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean-continent moisture transport, 2022, published in Nature
  • Half-precessional cycle of thermocline temperature in the western equatorial Pacific and its bihemispheric dynamics, 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Additional relevant papers co-authored by Zhimin Jian's collaborators include:

  • The microbial carbon pump and climate change, 2024, published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Pacific warm pool subsurface heat sequestration modulated Walker circulation and ENSO activity during the Holocene, 2020, published in Science Advances
  • Permanent closure of the Tethyan Seaway in the northwestern Iranian Plateau driven by cyclic sea-level fluctuations in the late Middle Miocene, 2020, published in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Frequent co-authors of Zhimin Jian include:

  • Haowen Dang
  • Yue Wang
  • Wolfgang Kuhnt
  • C. Làj
  • Anchun Li

Best Publications

  • Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon system: state of the art and outstanding issues.

    Pinxian Wang;Steven Clemens;Luc Beaufort;Pascale Braconnot

  • Holocene variability of the Kuroshio Current in the Okinawa Trough, northwestern Pacific Ocean

    Zhimin Jian;Zhimin Jian;Pinxian Wang;Yoshiki Saito;Jiliang Wang

  • Late Quaternary paleoceanography of the South China Sea: surface circulation and carbonate cycles

    Pinxian Wang;Luejiang Wang;Yunhua Bian;Zhimi Jian

  • Geochemical and Nd isotopic variations in sediments of the South China Sea: a response to Cenozoic tectonism in SE Asia

    Xian-hua Li;Gangjian Wei;Lei Shao;Ying Liu

  • Changes in terrestrial ecosystem since 30 Ma in East Asia: Stable isotope evidence from black carbon in the South China Sea

    Guodong Jia;Ping'an Peng;Quanhong Zhao;Zhimin Jian

  • Late Quaternary Upwelling Intensity and East Asian Monsoon Forcing in the South China Sea

    Zhimin Jian;Baoqi Huang;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Hui-Ling Lin

  • The microbial carbon pump and climate change

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  • Changes in the thermocline structure of the Indonesian outflow during Terminations I and II

    Jian Xu;Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Zhimin Jian

  • Modern distribution patterns of planktonic foraminifera in the South China Sea and western Pacific: a new transfer technique to estimate regional sea-surface temperatures

    Uwe Pflaumann;Zhimin Jian

  • Benthic foraminiferal paleoceanography of the South China Sea over the last 40,000 years

    Zhimin Jian;Luejiang Wang;Markus Kienast;Michael Sarnthein

  • Past dynamics of the East Asian monsoon: No inverse behaviour between the summer and winter monsoon during the Holocene

    Stephan Steinke;Cornelia Glatz;Mahyar Mohtadi;Jeroen Groeneveld

  • Orbitally paced paleoproductivity variations in the Timor Sea and Indonesian Throughflow variability during the last 460 kyr

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Hiroshi Kawamura;Zhimin Jian

  • The role of magmatism in the thinning and breakup of the South China Sea continental margin

    Zhen Sun;Jian Lin;Jian Lin;Ning Qiu;Zhimin Jian

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

    Pinxian Wang;Zhimin Jian;Quanhong Zhao;Qianyu Li

  • Pulleniatina obliquiloculata as a paleoceanographic indicator in the southern Okinawa trough during the last 20,000 years

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  • Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean–continent moisture transport

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  • Foraminiferal responses to major Pleistocene paleoceanographic changes in the southern South China Sea

    Zhimin Jian;Pinxian Wang;Min-Pen Chen;Baohua Li

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

    Pinxian Wang;Quanhong Zhao;Zhimin Jian;Xinrong Cheng

  • 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

  • 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

  • Quantitative composition of benthic foraminiferal assemblages as a proxy indicator for organic carbon flux rates in the South China Sea

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Silvia Hess;Zhimin Jian

  • Pliocene–Pleistocene stable isotope and paleoceanographic changes in the northern South China Sea

    Zhimin Jian;Quanhong Zhao;Xinrong Cheng;Jiliang Wang

  • Deep water exchanges between the South China Sea and the Pacific since the last glacial period

    Sui Wan;Zhimin Jian

  • Foraminiferal isotopic evidence for monsoonal activity in the South China Sea: a present-LGM comparison

    Xinrong Cheng;Baoqi Huang;Zhimin Jian;Quanhong Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Pinxian Wang
Pinxian Wang Tongji University
Qianyu Li
Qianyu Li Tongji University
Jun Tian
Jun Tian Tongji University
Wolfgang Kuhnt
Wolfgang Kuhnt Kiel University
Carlo Laj
Carlo Laj École Normale Supérieure
Ann Holbourn
Ann Holbourn Kiel University
Frank Bassinot
Frank Bassinot University of Paris-Saclay
Tiegang Li
Tiegang Li Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Uwe Pflaumann
Uwe Pflaumann Kiel University
Helmut Erlenkeuser
Helmut Erlenkeuser Kiel University

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