2025

Shihao Lei, Hanying Li*, Youwei Li*, Rui Zhang, Mei He, Xiyu Dong, Xiaowen Niu, Jian Wang, Haiwei Zhang, Zhengguo Shi, Youfeng Ning, Hai Cheng, Screening speleothem U/Th ages through crystal petrography analysis: A case study from Rige cave in the Southeast Tibetan Plateau, Quaternary International, 742, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109902.

Hanying Li , Shihao Lei , Lijuan Sha , Qiong Zhang , Haiwei Zhang , Jingyao Zhao , Kexin Wang , Hai Cheng, Hydroclimate dipole pattern in the eastern South African monsoon domain on various timescales. Global and Planetary Change, 253, 2025. 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.104963

Sinha A., Steiger N. J., Tan L., Hanying L., Gayatri K., Hai C. (2025). On Indian summer monsoon droughts and teleconnections over the past millennium. The Innovation Geoscience 3:100108. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2024.100108

Dong Xiyu, Zhang Xu*, Zhang Haiwei*, Zhang Yuao, Rasmussen Sune O., Zhang Rui, Cai Yanjun, Huang Shouyi, Kathayat Gayatri, Pérez-Mejías Carlos, Zong Baoyun, Liu Dianbing, Duan Pengzhen, Svensson Anders, Spötl Christoph, Li Youwei, Niu Xiaowen, Wang Jian, Li Hanying, Ning Youfeng, Xu Yao, Wang Xianfeng, Stríkis Nicolás M., Cruz Francisco W., Sinha Ashish, Werner Martin, Edwards R. Lawrence, Cheng Hai*. (2025). ​​​​​Interstadial diversity of East Asian summer monsoon linked to changes of the Northern Westerlies. Nature Communications 16, 7765. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63057-2.

Xiaowen Niu, Jian Wang, Le Kang, Youwei Li, Haiwei Zhang, Xiyu Dong, Hanying Li, Lijuan Sha, Liang Yi, Ashish Sinha, Youfeng Ning, Xue Jia, Baoyun Zong, Fan Zhang, Yanjun Cai, Jon Woodhead, Feng Liang, Zhuyin Chu, Jinghui Guo, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng,Millennial-scale climate variability of the Asian summer monsoon over the last 690,000 years: insights from cave records, Science Bulletin, 70 (9), 2025, 1513-1522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.02.011.

Lu, J. , Zhao, J. , Zhang, H. , Li, H. , Sha, L. , & Wang, J. , et al. (2025). Decoupling of monsoon dynamics and thermodynamics under global warming: evidence from multi‐proxy records in a single speleothem. Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres, 130(8).

2024：

Duan P, Li H*, Kathayat G, Zhang H, Ning Y, Zhu G, Cheng H. Opposite Hydrological Conditions between the Younger Dryas and the 8.2 ka Event Revealed by Stalagmite from Northwest Madagascar in East Africa. Minerals. 2024; 14(4):348. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14040348

2023：

Cai, Y.J.*, Cheng, H., Cheng, X., Shi, Z,G., Lu, Y.B., Ma, L., Pérez‐Mejías, C., Zhang, H.W., Wei, Y.Y., Xue, G., Li, H.Y., He, M., Wang, T., Edwards, R.L., An, Z.S., Orbital- to millennial-scale variation of the speleothem δ18O record during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3 on the southeast Chinese Loess Plateau and its climatic and environmental implications, Journal of Quaternary Science, 38(3)(2023), 295-307;

Duan, P.Z., Li, H.Y.*, Ma, Z.B., Zhao, J.Y., Sinha, A., Hu, P., Zhang, H.W., Cai, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, Interdecadal to Centennial Climate Variability Surrounding the 8.2 ka Event in North China Revealed Through an Annually Resolved Speleothem Record From Beijing, Geophysical Research Letters, 50(1)(2023), e2022GL101182;

Gao, T., Zhang, P.Z.*, Cheng, H., Zhang, L.L., Li, X.H., Shi, H.Y., Jia, W., Ning, Y.F., Li, H.Y., Edwards, R.L., An annually laminated stalagmite from the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau provides evidence of climate instability during the early MIS5e in the Asian summer monsoon, Science China Earth Sciences, 65(5)(2023), 1147-1164;

高涛, 张平中*, 程海, 张磊磊, 李新虎, 石宏宇, 贾伟, 宁有丰, 李瀚瑛, Edwards, R.L., 青藏高原东部MIS5e早期亚洲夏季风气候不稳定性的年纹层石笋印迹, 中国科学: 地球科学, 53(05)(2023), 1143-1162;

Sha, L.J.*, Wassenburg, J.A., Sha, L.F., Li, Y.W., Zhou, S.L., Liang, Q.S., Zhao, J.Y., Ruan, J.Y., Li, H.Y., Zhao, X.N., Duan, P.Z., Wang, J., Lu, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Kathayat, G., Mahata, S., Ban, F.M., Li, T.Y., Cheng, H.*, Continental-scale variations in triple oxygen isotope of modern speleothems from the Asian monsoon regions, Communications Earth and Environment, Accepted for Publication (2023);

Tian, Y., Fleitmann, D., Zhang, Q., Sha, L.J, Wassenburg, J.A., Axelsson, J., Zhang, H.W., Li, X.L., Hu, J., Li, H.Y., Zhao, L., Cai, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Cheng, H.*, Holocene climate change in southern Oman deciphered by speleothem multi-proxy records and climate model simulations, Nature Communications, 14(2023), 4718;

Yao, Y.*, Wang, L., Li, X.Z.*, Cheng, H., Cai, Y.J., Vachula, R.S., Liang, J., Li, H.Y., Liu, G.X., Zhao, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Li, Q., Unexpected cold season warming during the Little Ice Age on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Communications Earth & Environment, 4 (2023), 182;

Zhao, J.Y., Cheng, H.*, Cao, J.*, Sinha, A., Dong, X.Y., Pan, L.K., Pérez-Mejías, C., Zhang, H.W., Li, H.Y., Wang, J., Wang, K.X., Cui, J.H., Yang, Y., Orchestrated decline of Asian summer monsoon and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in global warming period, The Innovation geoscience, 1(1)(2023), 100011;

Duan, P, Z., Li, H, Y.*, Sinha, A., Voarintsoa, N, R, G., Kathayat, G., Hu, P., Zhang, H, W., Ning, Y, F., Cheng, H.*, 2021. The timing and structure of the 8.2 ka event revealed through high-resolution speleothem records from northwestern Madagascar. Quaternary Science Reviews, 268, 107104.

Li, H. Y., Hu, P., Zhang, Q., Sinha, A., Cheng, H. 2021., Understanding Interannual Variations of the Local Rainy Season over the Southwest Indian Ocean. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 38(11), 1852-1862.

Li, H., Sinha, A., André, A.A., Spötl, C., Vonhof, H.B., Meunier, A., Kathayat, G., Duan, P., Voarintsoa, N.R.G., Ning, Y., Biswas, J., Hu, P., Li, X., Sha, L., Zhao, J., Lawrence Edwards, R., Cheng, H., 2020. A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. Science Advances 6, eabb2459.

Li, H., Spötl, C., Cheng, H., 2020. A high-resolution speleothem proxy record of the Late Glacial in the European Alps: extending the NALPS19 record until the beginning of the Holocene. Journal of Quaternary Science, jqs.3255

Li H, Sinha A, Cheng H, et al. The Younger Dryas Event recorded in a speleothem from Rodrigues, Southwestern Indian Ocean. (in Chinese), Quaternary Sciences, 2019, 39(4): 1006-1017.

Li H.Y., Cheng H., Wang J., et a1. 2018. Applications of laser induced breakdown spectroscopy to paleoclimate research: Reconstructing speleothem trace element records. Quaternary Sciences 38, 1549–1551.

Li, H.Y., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Kathayat, G., Spötl, C., André, A.A., Meunier, A., Biswas, J., Duan, P.Z., Ning, Y.F., Edwards, R.L., 2018. Hydro-climatic variability in the southwestern Indian Ocean between 6000 and 3000 years ago. Climate of the Past 14, 1881–1891.

Lu, J. Y., Zhang, H, W*., Li, H, Y., Sha, L. J., Zhang, R., Zhao, J. Y., Li, Y. W., Wang, J., Dong, X. Y., Edwards, R. L., Qian, Z., Cheng, H*., 2022. Climatic and anthropogenic influence on vegetation in southeastern China during the past 120 years inferred from speleothem. Quaternary International.

Li, Y. W., Pérez-Mejías, C.*, Zhao, J. Y., Li, H. Y., Zhang, H. W., Lu, J. Y., Wang, J., Duan, P. Z., Dong, X. Y., Wang, H. B., Ning, Y. F., Qian, Z., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H.*, 2022. Indian summer monsoon variations during the Younger Dryas as revealed by a laminated stalagmite record from the Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 278, 107375

Niu, X. W., Zhang, H. W*., Li, H. Y., Wang, J., Bao, Y. Y., Cheng, H*., 2022. Spatial variation of precipitation in eastern China over the past 150 years based on speleothem multi-proxy analysis. Quaternary International 622, 89-96.

Lu, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Li, H.Y., Sha, L.J., Zhao, J.Y., Li, Y.W., Wang, J., Dong, X.Y., Edwards, R. L., Zhi Q., Cheng, H., 2021. A 120-year seasonally resolved speleothem record of precipitation seasonality from southeastern China., Quaternary Science Reviews, 264, 107023.

Kathayat, G., Sinha, A., Tanoue, M., Yoshimura, K., Li, H. Y., Zhang, H. W., Cheng, H., 2021. Interannual oxygen isotope variability in Indian summer monsoon precipitation reflects changes in moisture sources. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), 1-10.

Zhang, H. W., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Cai, YJ., Liu, B., Kathayat, G., Li, H. Y., Tian, Y., Li, Y. W., Zhao, J. Y., Sha, L. J., Lu, J. Y., Meng, B. L., Niu, X. W., Dong, X. Y., Liang, Z. Y., Zong, B. Y., Ning, Y. F., Lan, J. H., Edwards, R. L., 2021. Collapse of the Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in the lower Yangtze region in response to climate change. Science Advances, 7(48), eabi9275.

Zhang, H.W., Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Zhang, X., Cruz, F.W., Sinha, A., Auler, A.S., Stríkis, N.M. Wang, X.F., Kathayat, G., Li, X.L., Li, H.Y., Pérez‐Mejías, C., Cai, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Edwards, R.L., 2021. Gradual South‐North Climate Transition in the Atlantic Realm Within the Younger Dryas. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (8), e2021GL092620.

Zhao, J.Y., Tan,L.C., Yang, Y., Perez-Mejias, C., Brahim, Y.A., Lu, J.Y., Wang, J., Li, H.Y., Wang, T.L., Zhang, H.W., Cheng, H., 2021. New insights towards an integrated understanding of NE Asian monsoon during mid to late Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 254, 106793.

Zhao, J.Y., Cheng, H., Yang, Y., Liu, W., Zhang, H.W., Li, X.L., Li, H.Y., Brahim, Y.A., Pérez‐Mejías, C., Qu, X.L., 2021. Role of the summer monsoon variability in the collapse of the Ming dynasty: Evidences from speleothem records. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (11), e2021GL093071.

Cheng, H., Xu, Y., Dong, X. Y., Zhao, J. Y., Li, H. Y., Baker, J., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Zhang, H. W., Du, W. J., Zong, B. Y., Jia, X., Kathayat, G., Liu, D. B., Cai, Y. J., Wang, X. F., Strikis, Nicolás- M., Cruz, F. W., Auler, A. S., Gupta, A. K., Singh, R. L., Jaglan, S., Dutt, S., Liu, Z. Y., Edwards, R. L., 2021. Onset and termination of Heinrich Stadial 4 and the underlying climate dynamics. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), 1-11.

Cheng, H., Li, H., Zhang, X., Zhang H., Yi, L., Cai, Y., Hu, Y., Shi, Z., Peng, Y., Zhao, J., Sinha, A., Kathayat, G., 2020. European-Asian-African continent: An early form of supercontinent and supermonsoon. Quaternary Sciences 40, 1381–1396.

Cheng, H., Zhang, H., Spötl, C., Baker, J., Sinha, A., Li, H., Bartolomé, M., Moreno, A., Kathayat, G., Zhao, J., Dong, X., Li, Y., Ning, Y., Jia, X., Zong, B., Ait Brahim, Y., Pérez-Mejías, C., Cai, Y., Novello, V.F., Cruz, F.W., Severinghaus, J.P., An, Z., Edwards, R.L., 2020. Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 23408–23417.

Sinha, A., Kathayat, G., Weiss, H., Li, H.Y., Cheng, H., Reuter, J., Schneider, A.W., Berkelhammer, M., Adal, S.F., Stott, L.D., Edwards R.L. 2019. Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assy rian Empire. Science Advances 5: eaax6656.

Cheng H, Edwards R L, Southon, J, Matsumoto K, Feinberg J M, Sinha A., Zhou W, Li H, Li X, Xu Y, Chen S, Tan M, Wang Q, Wang Y, Ning Y, Atmospheric ¹⁴C/¹²C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave. Science 2018, 362(6420), 1293-1297.

Sinha A, Kathayat G, Weiss H, Li H, Cheng H, Reuter J, Schneider A W, Berkelhammer M, Adal S F, Stott L D, Edwards R L. Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assy rian Empire. Science Advances. 2019, 5, eaax6656.

Cheng H, Zhang H, Zhao J, Li H, Ning, Y, Kathayat, G, Chinese stalagmite paleoclimate researches: A review and perspective. Science China Earth Sciences, 2019, 1-25.

Cheng H, Springer G S, Sinha A, Hardt B F, Yi L, Li H, Tian Y, Li X, Eastern North American climate in phase with fall insolation throughout the last three glacial-interglacial cycles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2019, 522, 125-134

Sha L, Brahim Y A, Wassenburg J A, Yin J, Peros M, Cruz F W, Cai Y, Li H, Du W, Zhang H, Edwards R L, Cheng H, How far north did the African Monsoon fringe expand during the African Humid Period? - Insights from Southwest Moroccan speleothems.Geophysical Research Letters, 2019, GL084879.

Du W, Cheng H, Xu Y, Yang X, Zhang P, Sha L, Li H, Zhu X, Zhang M, Stríkis N, Cruz F W, Edwards R L, Zhang H W, Ning Y, Timing and structure of the weak Asian Monsoon event about 73,000 years ago. Quaternary Geochronology, 2019, 53, 101003.

Kathayat G, Cheng H, Sinha A, Yi L, Li X, Zhang H, Li H, Ning Y, Edwards R. L, The Indian monsoon variability and civilization changes in the Indian subcontinent. Science Advances, 2017; 3: e1701296.

Kathayat G, Cheng H, Sinha A, Berkelhammer M, Zhang H, Duan P, Li H, Li X, Ning Y, Edwards R L, Evaluating the timing and structure of the 4.2 ka event in the Indian summer monsoon domain from an annually resolved speleothem record from Northeast India. Climate of the Past, 2018, 14(12), 1869-1879.

Li, X.; Cheng, H.; Tan, L.; Ban, F.; Sinha, A.; Duan, W.; Li, H.; Zhang, H.; Ning, Y.; Kathayat, G.; Edwards, R. L. The East Asian Summer Monsoon Variability over the Last 145 Years Inferred from the Shihua Cave Record, North China. Sci Rep 2017, 7 (1), 7078. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07251-3.