Modification and preservation of environmental signals in speleothems

IJ Fairchild, CL Smith, A Baker, L Fuller, C Spötl… - Earth-Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
Speleothems are primarily studied in order to generate archives of climatic change and
results have led to significant advances in identifying and dating major shifts in the climate …

Persistent millennial-scale climatic variability over the past 25,000 years in Southern Africa

K Holmgren, JA Lee-Thorp, GRJ Cooper… - Quaternary Science …, 2003 - Elsevier
Data from stalagmites in the Makapansgat Valley, South Africa, document regional climatic
change in southern Africa in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. A new TIMS U-series dated …

Holocene climate variability

PA Mayewski, EE Rohling, JC Stager, W Karlén… - Quaternary …, 2004 - cambridge.org
Although the dramatic climate disruptions of the last glacial period have received
considerable attention, relatively little has been directed toward climate variability in the …

Southeast African records reveal a coherent shift from high-to low-latitude forcing mechanisms along the east African margin across last glacial–interglacial transition

M Chevalier, BM Chase - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Late Quaternary climate variability in the southern African subtropics is still only poorly
resolved, with significant complexity and apparent contradictions in the regional dataset. To …

[PDF][PDF] Cave sediments and paleoclimate

WB White - Journal of Cave and Karst studies, 2007 - legacy.caves.org
This paper is a review of cave sediments: their characteristics and their application as
paleoclimate archives. Cave sediments can be separated into two broad categories, clastic …

[書籍][B] The World System and the Earth System: global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic

A Hornborg, CL Crumley - 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research
and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding and studying the linkages …

Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem

MS Fletcher, PI Moreno - Quaternary International, 2012 - Elsevier
The prevailing view in the palaeoclimate literature of the last 20 years is that the Southern
Westerly Winds (SWW) were intensified over southern Australia and Tasmania during the …

The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

K Atsawawaranunt, L Comas-Bru… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most
particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and …

The intertropical convergence zone modulates intense hurricane strikes on the western North Atlantic margin

PJ van Hengstum, JP Donnelly, PL Fall, MR Toomey… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Most Atlantic hurricanes form in the Main Development Region between 9° N to 20° N along
the northern edge of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Previous research has …

African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

DJ Nash, G De Cort, BM Chase, D Verschuren… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The African continent is characterised by a wide range of hydroclimate regimes, ranging
from humid equatorial West Africa to the arid deserts in the northern and southern …