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Atmospheric Forcing of Dust Source Activation across East Asia Open

Lingle Chen, Kerstin Schepanski, Anya J. Crocker, Chuang Xuan, Paul A. Wilson · 2025

East Asian dust storms impact the health and livelihoods of millions but the atmospheric processes responsible are far from fully understood because suitable observations are lacking. Here we analyse dust source activation (DSA) frequency …

Supplementary material to "Atmospheric Forcing of Dust Source Activation across East Asia" Open

Lingle Chen, Kerstin Schepanski, Anya J. Crocker, Chuang Xuan, Paul A. Wilson · 2025

Deciphering West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics through statistical magnetostratigraphy: A 3.3-Myr record of Ross Embayment sedimentation responses to global climate transitions Open

Saiko T. Sugisaki, Xiangyu Zhao, Tim E. van Peer, Yûsuke Suganuma, Chuang Xuan , et al. · 2025

The interaction between the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and Plio-Pleistocene climate cooling remains pivotal yet poorly constrained due to fragmented Antarctic-proximal records. To resolve this, International Ocean Discovery Program (I…

Studies of the boron erosion and deposition in shadowed areas in EAST Open

Yuming Liu, Rong Yan, Lei Mu, Chuang Xuan, Baoguo Wang , et al. · 2025

Boronization is a widely employed technique for oxygen gettering and impurity suppression. It is expected to be an initial routine wall conditioning method for tungsten (W) plasma-facing components (PFCs) in ITER. To assess boron (B) perfo…

Depth Fluctuations of Mediterranean Outflow Water Along Its Northward Propagation During the Late Pleistocene Open

Xinyang Chen, Jiawang Wu, Xiaolei Pang, Haowen Dang, L. Zhong , et al. · 2025

Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) critically influences the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, yet its northward transport dynamics along the Iberian Margin remain unclear. Using terrigenous grain‐size sortable silt and benthic f…

Late Quaternary inundation and desiccation of Megalake Chad traced in dust records from the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean Open

Anya J. Crocker, Christopher W. Kinsley, Amy Jewell, Paul S. Breeze, Nicholas Drake , et al. · 2025

Dust source activation frequency across East Asia Open

Lingle Chen, Kerstin Schepanski, Anya J. Crocker, Chuang Xuan, Paul A. Wilson · 2025

Plumes of mineral dust in East Asia deleteriously impact the health and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people in Mongolia, China, Korea, and Japan and perturb Earth’s energy balance and climate. However, the sources of this dust ar…

Increased North African Dust Fluxes and Higher Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean Linked to Stronger Trade Winds From About 2.7 Million Years ago Open

Anya J. Crocker, Amy Jewell, Bryce Mitsunaga, Solana Buchanan, Anieke Brombacher , et al. · 2025

For at least the last 11 million years, the North African landscape has repeatedly oscillated on astronomical timescales between the dry dusty conditions of today and more humid, vegetated conditions such as those documented for the mid‐Ho…

Eccentricity pacing and rapid termination of the early Antarctic ice ages Open

Tim E. van Peer, Diederik Liebrand, Victoria Taylor, Swaantje Brzelinski, Iris Wolf , et al. · 2024

Analysis of Permanent Magnet Demagnetization during the Starting Process of a Line-start Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Open

Tuan Le Anh, Thuy Trinh Bien, Chuang Xuan, Do Anh Tuan, Nhu Y · 2024

Neodymium (NdFeB) rare earth Permanent Magnets (PMs) are widely used in the manufacturing of Line-Start Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (LSPMSMs). During the initial startup of LSPMSMs, irreversible PM demagnetization often occurs. Thi…

Expedition 397 summary Open

David A Hodell, Fatima F Abrantes, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Hannah L. Brooks, W. B. Clark , et al. · 2024

During International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 397, we recovered a total of 6176.7 m of core (104.2%recovery) at four sites (U1586, U1587, U1385, and U1588) from the Promontório dos Príncipes de Avis, a plateau located on the Port…

Site U1385 Open

David A Hodell, Fatima F Abrantes, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Hannah L. Brooks, W. B. Clark , et al. · 2024

Site U1587 Open

David A Hodell, Fatima F Abrantes, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Hannah L. Brooks, W. B. Clark , et al. · 2024

Site U1588 Open

Fatima F Abrantes, David A Hodell, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Hannah L. Brooks, W. B. Clark , et al. · 2024

Expedition 397 methods Open

Fatima F Abrantes, David A Hodell, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Hannah L. Brooks, W. B. Clark , et al. · 2024

Common coring-induced deformation includes the concave-downward appearance of originally horizontal bedding.Piston action may result in fluidization (flow-in) at the bottom of, or sometimes in, APC cores.Retrieval of unconsolidated (APC) c…

Site U1586 Open

Fatima F Abrantes, David A Hodell, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Hannah L. Brooks, W. B. Clark , et al. · 2024

Generation of High‐Order Laguerre‐Gaussian Modes from an Optical Vortex Pumped Diamond Raman Laser Open

Chuang Xuan, Yuxia Zhou, Xining Yang, Yuanyuan Ma, A. Srinivasa Rao , et al. · 2024

This work report the generation of high‐order Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) modes from a nanosecond, optical vortex pumped diamond Raman laser. This system is capable of generating first‐Stokes ( λ 1st = 1240 nm) LG modes with topological charge …

East Asian winter monsoon variability during the last 500 thousand years recorded by environmental magnetism of sediments in the Japan Sea Open

Jiachun Wang, Chuang Xuan, P. Wilson · 2024

The East Asian Winter Monsoon (EAWM) is driven by the dry and cold north-westerly winds blowing from central Asia towards the Western Pacific Ocean as atmospheric high-pressure cell develops over Siberia and Mongolia due to low continental…

Palaeo-conditioning a coupled climate model to reproduce the Holocene greening of the Sahara and the warm poles of the Eocene Open

Peter O. Hopcroft, Paul A. Wilson, Anya J. Crocker, Chuang Xuan, Paul J. Valdes · 2024

General circulation models (GCMs) often fail to reproduce two key aspects of palaeoclimate states: the Holocene Greening of the Sahara and the warm poles of the Early Eocene. These biases are systematic across many generations of GCMs and …

Westerly jet shifts over the last glacial cycle revealed by provenance of Japan Sea dust   Open

Lingle Chen, Chuang Xuan, Anya J. Crocker, Paul A. Wilson · 2024

Asian deserts are major sources of dust loading to the atmosphere, second only to those of North Africa. Today, dust activation in central and eastern Asia and convective rainfall over eastern China are preconditioned by the seasonal weake…

A radiogenic isotope framework to study palaeoaridity in the Middle East Open

Kai Zhang, Tereza Kunkelová, Anya J. Crocker, Amelia Gale, Chuang Xuan , et al. · 2024

Dust plays a vital role in global climate and environmental change by influencing the Earth’s radiation budget and providing nutrients to marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Modern dust emissions are dominated by North Africa, the Mid…

Evaluation of geomagnetic relative palaeointensity as a chronostratigraphic tool in the Southern Ocean: Refined Plio-/Pleistocene chronology of IODP Site U1533 (Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica) Open

Becky Hopkins, Chuang Xuan, Claus‐Dieter Hillenbrand, Tim E. van Peer, Yuxi Jin , et al. · 2024

Did the North Atlantic Ocean play a role driving Green Sahara conditions during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene? Open

Anya J. Crocker, Amy Jewell, Bryce Mitsunaga, Solana Buchanan, Thomas Westerhold , et al. · 2023

North Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions on Earth to anthropogenically-driven climate change, but also one of the least equipped to deal with the consequences. Predictions of precipitation levels over the forthcoming centuries di…

Astronomically controlled aridity in the Sahara since at least 11 million years ago Open

Anya J. Crocker, B. David A. Naafs, Thomas Westerhold, Rachael H. James, Matthew J. Cooper , et al. · 2022

What don't we understand about past rainfall changes in Africa and Arabia during the Pliocene? Open

Kai Zhang, Tereza Kunkelová, Paul A. Wilson, Chuang Xuan, Anya J. Crocker · 2022

<p>Past hydroclimate change in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula plays a vital role in early human evolution and dispersal. Although arid today, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula experienced periodic humid intervals, during which…

Astronomically controlled aridity in the Sahara since at least 11 million years ago: Dataset Open

Anya J. Crocker, B. David A. Naafs, Thomas Westerhold, Rachael H. James, Matthew J. Cooper , et al. · 2022

This data is associated with the manuscript: Crocker, A.J., Naafs, B.D.A., Westerhold, T. et al. Astronomically controlled aridity in the Sahara since at least 11 million years ago. Nat. Geosci. (2022). https://doi.org/10…

Astronomically controlled aridity in the Sahara since at least 11 million years ago: Dataset Open

Anya J. Crocker, B. David A. Naafs, Thomas Westerhold, Rachael H. James, Matthew J. Cooper , et al. · 2022

This data is associated with the manuscript: Crocker, A.J., Naafs, B.D.A., Westerhold, T. et al. Astronomically controlled aridity in the Sahara since at least 11 million years ago. Nat. Geosci. (2022). https://doi.org/10…

Green Sahara Periods in a warmer world: a proxy-based reconstruction of the last 11 Myr Open

Anya J. Crocker, B. David A. Naafs, Thomas Westerhold, Rachael H. James, Matthew J. Cooper , et al. · 2022

<p>The Sahara is a vast, bare, intensely arid, dust exporting landscape today. Yet, in the early Holocene, the Sahara was green; a well-vegetated landscape crosscut by a network of rivers and lakes, populated by hippopotamuses, other…

A comparison study on patient-psychologist voice diarization Open

Rachid Riad, Hadrien Titeux, Chuang Xuan, Emmanuel Dupoux, Laurie Lemoine , et al. · 2022

Rachid Riad, Hadrien Titeux, Laurie Lemoine, Justine Montillot, Agnes Sliwinski, Jennifer Bagnou, Xuan Cao, Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Levi, Emmanuel Dupoux. Ninth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT-20…

IODP Expedition 346, Hole U1427A - Well Logging Data Open

Ryuji Tada, Richard W. Murray, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Johanna Lofi, William T. Anderson , et al. · 2021

Logging data are measurements of physical properties of the formation surrounding a borehole, acquired in situ after completion of coring (wireline logging) or during drilling (Logging-While-Drilling, LWD). The range of data (resistivity, …

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