Tan et al. (2026) Holocene Climate Changes: Unraveling Processes, Mechanisms, and Impacts Across Spatiotemporal Scales

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Identification

• Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
• Year: 2026
• Date: 2026-03-30
• Authors: Liangcheng Tan, Hai Xu, Xianfeng Wang
• DOI: 10.1029/2025gl120388

Research Groups

Not specified in the abstract, which describes a "special collection" featuring 14 interdisciplinary studies.

Short Summary

This special collection explores Holocene climate changes, focusing on reconstructing variability, elucidating multi-scale mechanisms, and understanding climate-human-environment interactions, revealing that regional climate processes often diverge from global trends, multi-sphere interactions are crucial, and natural and human impacts on regional environments are asynchronous.

Objective

• To understand Holocene climate changes, including variability, extreme events, multi-scale dynamical mechanisms, and climate-human-environment interactions, to provide a critical perspective for comprehending future regional environmental responses under global warming.

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Regional to global, with a focus on regional climate processes and environments.
• Temporal Scale: Holocene period (approximately 11,700 years before present to today), with implications for future climate.

Methodology and Data

• Models used: Not specified in the abstract, which refers to "14 interdisciplinary studies."
• Data sources: Not specified in the abstract.

Main Results

• Regional climate processes frequently diverge from global trends.
• Multi-sphere interactions are fundamental to understanding climate variability and extreme events.
• There is an asynchronicity in the impacts of natural forces and human activities on the regional environment.

Contributions

• Provides crucial insights from Holocene climate dynamics and human-environment interactions to serve as an important reference for predicting how regional environments will respond to future natural and anthropogenic influences.

Funding

Not specified in the abstract.

Citation

@article{Tan2026Holocene,
  author = {Tan, Liangcheng and Xu, Hai and Wang, Xianfeng},
  title = {Holocene Climate Changes: Unraveling Processes, Mechanisms, and Impacts Across Spatiotemporal Scales},
  journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1029/2025gl120388},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2025gl120388}
}