A long-term cooperation has been launched between Professor Shen Ji from Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology.CAS, Professor Kenji Kashiwaya from Kanazawa University of Japan and Ju-Yong Kim from Korea Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources. Their cooperation program “Northeast Asian climate changes and hydrological fluctuations in the past thousand years” has recently published an academic monograph named Earth Surface Processes and Environmental Changes in East Asia---Records From Lake-Catchment Systems on Springer.
This program, through searching the latitude zone synchronously covered by China, Japan and Korea for the ideal sediment records left by climate and environmental changes in the past thousand years, has studied on Lake Khanka, Lake Jingpo and Lake Onuma (as well as other four lakes in Japan and central Korea) and thus rebuilt the picture of Northeast Asian climate and environmental changes in the past. By regional comparison, this research program has investigated the law of climate changes in the past and its driving mechanism, and evaluated how the intensity of human activities in the past affected the climate and environmental changes. Besides, this program has probed into the time-space consistency of regional climate and environmental changes through comparing the records left by East Asian continental monsoon system, ENSO air-sea system in low-latitude tropics and marine current system, which is conducive to the forecast and early warning of climate change for the consideration of regional safety.