Fabiana Richter¹, Carmala N Garzione¹, Zhisheng An², Weiguo Liu³, Xiaoke Qiang⁴, Hong Chang⁴, Aradhna K Tripati⁵ and Xiangzhong Li⁶, (1)University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (3)Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Xi'an, China, (4)IEE Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Yunnan University, Research Center for Earth System Science, Kunming, China