Global monsoon dynamics and climate change

A Zhisheng, W Guoxiong, L Jian**… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary

JE Tierney, JM Russell, JSS Damsté, Y Huang… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Both Atlantic and Indian Ocean climate dynamics exert influence over tropical African
hydroclimate, producing complex patterns of convergence and precipitation. To isolate the …

Reversed Holocene temperature–moisture relationship in the Horn of Africa

AJ Baxter, D Verschuren, F Peterse, DG Miralles… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to severely impact the global hydrological cycle,
particularly in tropical regions where agriculture-based economies depend on monsoon …

The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: a synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000–30,000 years ago

MW Blome, AS Cohen, CA Tryon, AS Brooks… - Journal of human …, 2012 - Elsevier
We synthesize African paleoclimate from 150 to 30 ka (thousand years ago) using 85
diverse datasets at a regional scale, testing for coherence with North Atlantic …

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

C Shipton, P Roberts, W Archer, SJ Armitage… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant
shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of …

Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African …

JSS Damsté, J Ossebaar, S Schouten… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The distribution of isoprenoid and branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids
was studied in the sedimentary record of Lake Challa, a permanently stratified, partly anoxic …

Reduced interannual rainfall variability in East Africa during the last ice age

C Wolff, GH Haug, A Timmermann, JSS Damsté… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Interannual rainfall variations in equatorial East Africa are tightly linked to the El Niño
Southern Oscillation (ENSO), with more rain and flooding during El Niño and droughts in La …

Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya

B van Geel, V Gelorini, A Lyaruu, A Aptroot… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2011 - Elsevier
Fossil fungal spores and other non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are powerful
environmental proxies in European palaeoecological and archaeological contexts …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic …

AJ Baxter, LGJ Van Bree, F Peterse… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (isoGDGTs) are membrane lipids of Archaea.
Organic biomarker proxies associated with these lipids, such as the TEX 86 …

Evidence for the Carnian Pluvial Episode in Gondwana: New multiproxy climate records and their bearing on early dinosaur diversification

AC Mancuso, CA Benavente, RB Irmis, R Mundil - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The Triassic hothouse world experienced dynamic changes in climate and ecosystems that
set the Earth's climate and biotic states for much of the Mesozoic Era. A critical time interval …