Ozone is an important pollutant and greenhouse gas, and tropospheric ozone variations are generally associated with both natural and anthropogenic processes. As one of the most pristine and inaccessible regions in the world, the Tibetan Plateau 15 has been considered as an ideal region for studying processes of the background atmosphere. Due to the vast area of the Tibetan Plateau, sites in the...

This paper reports the fossil zokors (Myospalacinae) collected from the lower Pliocene (~4.4 Ma) of Zanda Basin, southwestern Tibet, which is the first record in the hinterland of Tibetan Plateau within the Himalayan Range. Materials include 29 isolated molars belonging to Prosiphneus eriksoni (Schlosser, 1924) by having characters including large size, highly fused roots, upper molars of ortho...

The Late Cenozoic East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) enhancement has been attributed to several factors, such as uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, retreat of the Paratethys Sea, and global cooling related to polar ice volume increment. However, the fundamental forcing factors remain enigmatic due to the absence of long and continuous climate records and sensitive indicators. Here we reanalyzed the p...

The Ontong Java, Manihiki, and Shatsky oceanic plateaus are among the Earth’s largest igneous provinces and are commonly believed to have erupted rapidly during the surfacing of giant heads of initiating mantle plumes. We investigate this hypothesis by using sediment descriptions of Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) drill cores to constrain plateau subsidence his...

The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) during late Cenozoic is thought to be one crucial factors controlling Asian climate. However, complex interaction between tectonics and climate change remains unclear. carbon oxygen isotopes elementary geochemistry rocks from early Eocene Lulehe Formation Miocene Youshashan in northern margin Qaidam Basin, shows important variations Rb/Sr, MgO/CaO, Sr/Cu, ...

Using hourly rain gauge records and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission 3B42 from 1998 to 2006, the authors present an analysis of the diurnal characteristics of summer rainfall over subtropical East Asia. The study shows that there are four different regimes of distinct diurnal variation of rainfall in both the rain gauge and the satellite data. They are located over the Tibetan Plateau with l...

Drug use tends to follow cycles. Monitoring may be used to establish the trends over time and to analyse their dynamics. An approach is described which establishes the stage of adoption or discontinuance of drug use in the community and a method for the prediction of future trends. Monitoring in New South Wales from 1971 to 1973 provided data which are analysed to show that alcohol was in the p...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether contrast enhancement features on 3D volumetric gradient-recalled echoMR images allow differentiation of benign from malignant solitary pulmonary nodules. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty patients with solitary pulmonary nodules (range of greatest diameter, 7-40 mm) detected on CT underwent unenhanced MRI and contrast-enhanced MRI perform...

Secondary succession is the process by which a community develops into climax over time. However, knowledge on mechanisms, relating to soil legacy effects (soil chemistry and enzyme activity) plant—soil feedback (PSF), driving remains limited. In this work, we examined PSF associated with three stage species through 2-year greenhouse experiment. Setaria viridis, Stipa bungeana, Bothriochloa isc...

Growth of the Tibetan Plateau, Earth’s broadest and highest elevation collisional system, shapes orographic barriers, reorganizes drainage networks, influences surface erosion sediment delivery, whose changes in space provenance feed back to intracontinental tectonic processes. Studies interior basins within northern Plateau provide new accumulation, provenance, paleodrainage, deformation timin...