Major Increase in Winter and Spring Precipitation During the Little Ice Age in the Westerly Dominated Northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau


Jiaju Zhao1,2, Elizabeth K Thomas3, Yuan Yao1, Jody DeAraujo2 and Yongsong Huang4, (1)Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Xi'an, China, (2)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)University at Buffalo, Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States, (4)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States