What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review

O Kwiecien, T Braun, CF Brunello, P Faulkner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

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 …

Documentary data and the study of past droughts: a global state of the art

R Brázdil, A Kiss, J Luterbacher, DJ Nash… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
The use of documentary evidence to investigate past climatic trends and events has become
a recognised approach in recent decades. This contribution presents the state of the art in its …

DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions

AM Burgdorf, S Brönnimann, G Adamson, T Amano… - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly
written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks. Over the …

Climate change and maize yield in southern Africa: what can farm management do?

J Rurinda, MT van Wijk, P Mapfumo… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
There is concern that food insecurity will increase in southern Africa due to climate change.
We quantified the response of maize yield to projected climate change and to three key …

[BOOK][B] Tambora and the" Year Without a Summer" of 1816. A perspective on earth and human systems science

S Brönnimann, D Krämer - 2016 - boris.unibe.ch
In April 1815, the volcano Tambora in Indonesia erupted, bringing immediate devastation to
Sumbawa and the neighbouring islands. The impacts of this eruption were felt around the …

The African Humid Period, rapid climate change events, the timing of human colonization, and megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar during the Holocene: Evidence …

L Wang, GA Brook, DA Burney, NRG Voarintsoa… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Stalagmite data from Anjohibe Cave in northwest Madagascar suggest six distinct
climate periods from 9.1 to 0.94 ka. Periods I and II (9.1–4.9 ka) were wetter and punctuated …

Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: A global state-of-the-art

DJ Nash, GCD Adamson, L Ashcroft… - Climate of the Past …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
Evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important
record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data …

[HTML][HTML] Hydroclimate responses over global monsoon regions following volcanic eruptions at different latitudes

M Zuo, T Zhou, W Man - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Hydroclimate Responses over Global Monsoon Regions Following Volcanic Eruptions at
Different Latitudes in: Journal of Climate Volume 32 Issue 14 (2019) Jump to Content Jump to …

[BOOK][B] Climatic changes since 1700

S Brönnimann, S Brönnimann - 2015 - Springer
Over the last 300 years, countless climatic variations at different places and times have been
witnessed, some affecting millions of people and changing the course of history, some going …