Prof. Hai Cheng has published more than 700 papers, citations >95000, h-index 125, including 30 in Science and Nature, and more than 80 in PNAS, Nature and Science Series Journals. More details see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cv3SRfMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Tan, L.C.*, Cheng, H., Li, D., Orozbaev, R., Li, Y.Z., Xu, H., Edwards, R.L., Song, Y,G., Ma, L., Lin, F.Y., Sinha, A., An, Z.S.*, Hydroclimatic changes on multiple timescales since 7800 y BP in the winter precipitation–dominated Central Asia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(4)(2024), e2321645121;
Sha, L.J.*, Dang, H.W*, Wang, Y., Wassenburg, J.A., Baker, J.L., Li, H.Y., Sinha, A., Ait Brahim, Y., Wu, N.P., Lu, Z.Y., Yang, C., Dong, X.Y., Lu, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Mahata, S., Cai, Y.J., Jian, Z.M., Cheng, H.*, Triple oxygen isotope reveals insolation-forced tropical moisture cycles, Science Advances, 10(37) (2024), eadp7855;
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;
Cheng, H.*, Li, H.Y., Sha, L.J., Sinha, A., Shi, Z.G., Yin, Q.Z., Lu, Z.Y., Zhao, D.B., Cai, Y.J., Hu, Y.Y., Hao, Q.Z., Tian, J., Kathayat, G., Dong, X.Y., Zhao, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Milankovitch theory and monsoon, The Innovation, 3(6)(2022), 100338;
Kathayat, G., Sinha, A., Breitenbach, M. F., Tan, L. C., Spötl, C., Li, H. Y., Dong, X. Y., Zhang, H.W., Ning, Y.F., Allan, R.J., Damodaran, V., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, Protracted Indian monsoon droughts of the past millennium and their societal impacts, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(39)(2022), e2207487119;
Dong, X.Y., Kathayat, G.*, Rasmussen, S.O., Svensson, A., Severinghaus, J.P., Li, H.Y., Sinha, A., Xu, Y., Zhang, H.W., Shi, Z.G., Cai, Y.J., Pérez-Mejías, C., Baker, J.L., Zhao, J.Y., Spotl, C., Columbu, A., Ning, Y.F., Stríkis, N.M., Chen, S.T., Wang, X.F., Gupta, A.K., Dutt, S., Zhang, F., Cruz, F.W., An, Z.S., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics during Heinrich Stadial 2, Nature Communications, 13(2022), 1-14;
Cheng, H.*, Zhang, H.W., Cai, Y.J.*, Shi, Z.G., Yi, L., Deng, C.L., Hao, Q.Z., Peng, Y.B., Sinha, A., Li, H.Y., Zhao, J.Y., Tian, Y., Baker, J., Perez-Mejias, C. Orbital-scale Asian summer monsoon variations: Paradox and exploration, Science China Earth Sciences, 64(2021), 529-544;
Cheng, H.*, Zhang, H.W., Spötl, C., Baker, J., Sinha, A., Li, H.Y., Bartolomé, M., Moreno, A., Kathayat, G., Zhao, J.Y., Dong, X.Y., Li, Y.W., Ning, Y.F., Jia, X., Zong, B.Y., Brahim, Y.A., Pérez-Mejías, C., Cai, Y.J., Novello, V.F., Cruz, F.W., Severinghaus, J.P., An, Z.S., Edwards, R.L., Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(2020), 23408-23417;
Sha, L.J., Mahata, S., Duan, P.Z., Luz, B., Zhang, P., Baker, J., Zong, B.Y., Ning, Y.F., Brahim, Y.A., Zhang, H.W., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, A novel application of triple oxygen isotope ratios of speleothems, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 270(2020), 360-378;
Li, H.Y., Sinha, A.*, André, A.A., Spötl, C., Vonhof, H.B., Meunier, A., Kathayat, G., Duan, P.Z., Voarintsoa, N.R.G., Ning, Y.F., Biswas, J., Hu, P., Li, X.L., Sha, L.J., Zhao, J.Y., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands, Science Advances, 6(2020), eabb2459;
Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Southon, J., Matsumoto, K., Feinberg, J.M., Sinha, A., Zhou, W.J., Li, H.Y., Li, X.L., Xu, Y., Chen, S.T., Tan, M., Wang, Q., Wang, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Atmospheric 14C/12C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave, Science, 362(6420)(2018), 1293-1297;
Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Yi, L., Chen, S.T., Kelly, M., Kathayat, G., Wang, X.F., Li, X.L., Kong, X.G., Wang, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Zhang, H.W., The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations, Nature, 534(7609)(2016), 640-646;
Cheng, H.*, Spötl, C., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Sinha, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Jochum, K.P., Scholz, D., Li, X.L., Yi, L., Peng, Y.B., Lv, Y.B., Zhang, P.Z., Votintseva, A., Loginov, V., Ning, Y.F., Kathayat, G., Edwards, R.L., Climate variations of Central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales, Scientific Reports, 6(2016), 36975;
Kathayat, G., Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Zhang, H.W., Li, X.L., Yi, L., Ning, Y.F., Cai, Y.J., LuiLui, W.G., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales, Scientific Reports, 6(2016), 24374;
Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Verheyden, S., Nader, F.H., Li, X.L., Zhang, P.Z., Yin, J.J., Yi, L., Peng, Y.B., Rao, Z.G., Ning, Y.F., Edwards, R.L., The climate variability in northern Levant over the past 20,000 years, Geophysical Research Letters, 42(20)(2015), 8641-8650;
Sinha, A.*, Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Berkelhammer, M., Mudelsee, M., Biswas, J., Edwards, R.L., Trends and Oscillations and Anomalies in the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall over the Last Two Millennia, Nature Communications, 6(2015), 6309;
Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Shen, C.C., Polyak, V.J., Asmerom, Y., Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Spötl, C., Wang, X.F., Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U-Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 371-372(2013), 82-91;
Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Cruz, F.W., Wang, X., Edwards, R.L., d’Horta, F.M., Ribas, C.C., Vuille, M., Stott, L.D., Auler, A.S., Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity, Nature Communications, 4(2013), 1411;
Cheng, H.*, Zhang, P.Z., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Cai, Y.J., Zhang, D.Z., Sang, W.C., Tan, M., An, Z.S., The climate cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years, Geophysical Research Letters, 39(2012), L01705；
Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Wang, X.F., Cruz, F.W., Edwards, R.L., The Global Paleomonsoon as seen through speleothem records from Asia and the Americas, Climate Dynamics, 39(2012), 1045-1062；
Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L.*, Broecker, W.S., Denton, G.H., Kong, X.G., Wang, Y.J., Zhang, R., Wang, X.F., Ice Age Terminations, Science, 326(248)(2009), 248-252;
Cheng, H.*, Fleitmann, D. *, Edwards, R.L., Wang, X.F., Cruz, F.W., Auler, A.S., Mangini, A., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Timing and structure of the 8.2 kyr B.P. event inferred from d18O records of stalagmites from China, Oman and Brazil, Geology, 37(11)(2009), 1007-1010;
Wang, Y.J.*, Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Kong, X.G., Shao, X.H., Wu, J.Y., Jiang, X.Y., Wang, X.F., An, Z.S., Millennial- and orbital- scale changes in the East Asian Monsoon over the past 224,000 years, Nature, 451(2008), 1090-1093;
Zhang, P.Z., Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Chen, F.H., Wang, Y.J., Yang, X.L., Liu, J., Tan, M., Wang, X.F., Liu, J.H., An, C.L., Dai, Z.B., Zhou, J., Zhang, D.Z., Jia, J.H., Jin, L.Y., Johnson, K.R., A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from a 1810-year Chinese Cave record, Science, 322(5903)(2008), 940-942;
Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Ming, Y.F., Kelly, M.J., Wang, X.F., Gallup, C. D., Liu, W.G., A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations, Geology, 34(3)(2006), 217-220;
Wang, Y.J., Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., He, Y.Q., Kong, X.G., An, Z.S., Wu, J.Y., Kelly, M.J., Dykosk, C.A., Li, X.D., The Holocene Asian monsoon: links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate, Science, 308(5723)(2005), 854-857;