Impact of Climate Warming on Agriculture in Northwest China;

The Mapping and Validation of Land Cover in Northwest China from SPOT4-VEGETATION;

New Development of Arid Climate Research in Northwest China from 2001 to 2005 and Main Scientific Problems;

The Urbanization Effect in Northwestern China and Its Contribution to Temperature Warming;

Studies on cytology of 11 Astragalus species from Northwestern China;

Study on the Lichen Genus Lecidea from Northwestern China;

Estimation of land surface energy flux densities over eastern part of Northwest China with the aid of satellite remote sensing and field observations;

Eleven major humidity proxy records and other supplementary evidences including different natural archives such as ice-cores, sedimentary records, river terraces, lake-level fluctuations as well as historical documents are involved to reconstruct the humidity variability in the arid Northwest China during the Little Ice Age (LIA) from 1400 AD to 1920 AD.

The Climatic Regionalization for Vegetable Production in Energy-saving Solar Greenhouse in Northwest of China;

The annual precipitation variable characteristics and production structure were analyzed using a hundred years annual data of precipitation in the main body of arid and semi-arid area,in Central Asia and northwest of China The results indicated that the spatial distribution and time evolution of annual precipitation in this area not only show unitary features , but also unique feature.

Grain-size Distribution of the Sediments of Dry Lake-bed in the Northwest of China and Sand-dust Weather in East Asia;