The mountains of High Mountain Asia serve as an important source water for roughly one billion people living downstream. This research uses 15 years dynamically downscaled precipitation produced by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to delineate contrasts in characteristics events between regions dominated Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) versus westerly disturbances during cool season...

Abstract Precipitation is crucial for life and the ecological environment in Asian drylands. This study investigated precipitation trends drylands previous four decades simulated its possible linkage with snow cover reduction over Tibetan Plateau. The results show that has been increasing contributing to wetter conditions can be attributed deepened quasi-stationary wave trough around Lake Balkh...

The Zang-Yi Corridor is of pivotal significance for the interactions between northwest China, southwest and mainland Southeast Asia. It has been hypothesized that formation mixed farming in this region its surrounding areas was based on multiple waves crop dispersal, with foxtail millet broomcorn arriving first from China around 5,300 cal. BP rice middle Yangtze valley after 4,700 BP. Based sys...

Rare mitochondrial lineages with relict distributions can sometimes be disproportionately informative about deep events in human prehistory. We have studied one such lineage, haplogroup R0a, which uniquely is most frequent in Arabia and the Horn of Africa, but is distributed much more widely, from Europe to India. We conclude that: (1) the lineage ancestral to R0a is more ancient than previousl...