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Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-343-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-343-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
Research article
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03 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 03 Feb 2025

Towards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation based on tetraether membrane lipids in Chinese loess

Jingjing Guo, Martin Ziegler, Louise Fuchs, Youbin Sun, and Francien Peterse

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In this study, we use the distribution of soil bacterial membrane lipids stored on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) to quantitatively reconstruct variations in precipitation amount over the past 130 kyr. The precipitation record shows orbital- and millennial-scale variations and varies at precession and obliquity scale. The application of this precipitation proxy across the CLP indicates a more pronounced spatial gradient during glacials, when the western CLP experiences more arid conditions.
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