“…Owing to the lake's position at the intercept between the extent of the mid-latitude Westerlies, the Siberian Anticyclone and partially also the Asian monsoon system (Aizen et al, 2001;Cheng et al, 2012), the Tian Shan represents a key location to study paleoenvironmental changes at high resolution. Although different types of natural archives, such as speleothems (Cheng et al, 2012;Wolff et al, 2017), tree-rings (Esper et al, 2002), loess sequences (Machalett et al, 2008) and lake sediments (Ricketts et al, 2001;Beer et al, 2007;Lauterbach et al, 2014;Mathis et al, 2014;Schwarz et al, 2017) have been analyzed during the last two decades to understand climatic and environmental fluctuations in Central Asia, knowledge about the regional climate development during the Holocene and the underlying mechanisms is still relatively scarce.…”