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Huang Wei’s paper wins “2017 Hot Papers Awards” from Science China: Earth Sciences

The first session of the 11th editorial committee of Science China: Earth Sciences was held recently. Complying with the principles that combining scientific quantitative evaluation on measuring indexes with quantitative assessment of peer experts, the committee selected only one hot paper from each discipline. Academician Chen Fahu and Huang Wei, from Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education (MOE) of the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, have published a paper titled with “Definition of the core zone of the “westerlies-dominated climatic regime”, and its controlling factors during the instrumental period” in 2015, which was selected as one of the “2017 Hot Papers Awards”. This is the second time the paper has been awarded since it won the first prize of the best papers in 2016. 

Arid central Asia (ACA) area is an important part of pan-third-level core areas, and the core region in the construction of green Silk Road. The climate and environment change in this area is of regional characteristics and global significance, which has been a frontier issue gained broad attention from international academia. Academician Chen Fahu with his team have suggested that the existence of an opposing pattern of the humidity and precipitation variations between ACA on the Holocene suborbital to decadal scales and mid-latitude monsoon-dominated East Asia, which is called “westerlies-dominated climatic regime”, while they still lack a systematic study of the specific range of “westerlies-dominated climatic regime” and the dynamic mechanism on different time scales. 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11430-015-5057-y

 

(Translated by Li Rui; proofread by Song Rong; edited by Zhang Yuyuan)