Professor Gou Xiaohua, from Research School of Arid Environment & Climate Change of LZU, was awarded the third prize by SCIENCE CHINA Earth Science for her paper “Asymmetric variability between maximum and minimum temperatures in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from tree rings”.
Based on tree-ring samples at the headwaters of the Yellow River in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Professor Gou Xiaohua reconstructed the minimum temperatures in the winter half year over the last 425 years and the maximum temperatures in the summer half year over the past 700 years in this region. There exist similar variation patterns between the minimum and maximum temperatures. However, the minimum temperatures vary about 25 years earlier compared to the maximum temperatures, which is called asymmetric variation pattern. It is the first time that the research team used tree-ring samples to reconstruct the extreme temperature to study the asymmetric variation pattern. The research method and findings are widely cited by the researchers at home and abroad.
Professor Gou and her research team use tree-ring widths to study climatic change in arid and semi-arid regions of northwestern China and have published more than 100 research papers on domestic and foreign core journals, including 56 SCI papers. Thanks to her achievements, Professor Gou won 7 science awards including “China Young Women Scientists' Award”, “Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Youth Science and Technology Award”, “Gansu Youth Science and Technology Award”, etc.
News background:
SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, an academic journal cosponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and published by Science China Press and Springer, is committed to publishing high-quality, original findings in both basic and applied research. It is the first time for the journal commission to select “the best papers” and “the popular papers”. The best papers are selected from 1001 papers published on SCIENCE CHINA Earth Science (English version) from 2008 to 2012, including one first prize, three second prizes and six third prizes. The popular papers are selected from 384 papers published on SCIENCE CHINA Earth Science (English version) from 2011 to 2012, including three second prizes and six third prizes (no first prize).
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(Translated by Ren Lina, Proofread by Lawrence Xu)
