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ArticleNature communications2025

Recent centennial drought on the Tibetan Plateau is outstanding within the past 3500 years.

Yu Liu, Huiming Song, Zhisheng An, Qiang Li, Steven W Leavitt, Ulf Büntgen, Qiufang Cai, Ruoshi Liu, Congxi Fang, Changfeng Sun and 23 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

33 authors.

Yu LiuThe State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China. liuyu@loess.llqg.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1402-0737
Huiming SongInstitute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. songhm@xjtu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-7726-4591
Zhisheng AnThe State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9538-9826
Qiang LiInstitute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7763-8115
Steven W LeavittThe Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7291-208X
Ulf BüntgenDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Qiufang CaiThe State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2964-6553
Ruoshi LiuInstitute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Congxi FangInstitute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6106-904X
Changfeng SunInstitute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8648-8120
Kerstin TreydteResearch Unit Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8399-6517
Meng RenXi'an Institute for Innovative Earth Environment Research, Xi'an, China.
Lidong MoInstitute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3805-7638
Yi SongThe State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Wenju CaiCentre for Southern Hemisphere Ocean Research (CSHOR), CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6520-0829
Quan ZhangThe State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.
Weijian ZhouThe State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9641-5734
Achim BräuningInstitute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4229
Jussi GrießingerInstitute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6103-2071
Deliang ChenDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0288-5618
Hans W LinderholmDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1522-8919
Ashish SinhaDepartment of Earth Science, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5700-2451
Hai ChengInstitute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5305-9458
Lu WangInstitute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, China.
Ying LeiThe State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9909-7006
Junyan SunThe State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3189-1227
Wei GongSchool of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Xuxiang LiInstitute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8001-5573
Linlin CuiCollege of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China.
Liang NingKey Laboratory for Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Lingfeng WanInstitute for Advanced Ocean Study (IAOS), Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
Thomas W CrowtherInstitute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5674-8913
Constantin M ZohnerInstitute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8302-4854

Funding

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) XDB40010300National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42361144712 and U1803245Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) #PZ00P3_193646
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Given growing concerns about global climate change, it is critical to understand both historical and current shifts in the hydroclimate, particularly in regions critically entwined with global circulation. The Tibetan Plateau, the Earth's largest and highest plateau, is a nexus for global atmospheric processes, significantly influencing East Asian hydroclimate dynamics through the synergy of the Asian Monsoon and the Westerlies. Yet, understanding historical and recent hydroclimate fluctuations and their wide-ranging ecological and societal consequences remains challenging due to short instrumental observations and partly ambiguous proxy reconstructions. Here, we present a precisely-dated 3476-year precipitation reconstruction derived from tree-ring δ

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