A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon

H Zhang, X Zhang, Y Cai, A Sinha, C Spötl… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conflicting reconstructions of Holocene variability of the East Asian summer monsoon
(EASM) from speleothem versus other types of proxy records have yielded widely divergent …

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 …

Elevated Southern Hemisphere moisture availability during glacial periods

R Weij, JMK Sniderman, JD Woodhead, JC Hellstrom… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Late Pleistocene ice-age climates are routinely characterized as having imposed moisture
stress on low-to mid-latitude ecosystems,,,–. This idea is largely based on fossil pollen …

Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial

HM Hu, G Marino, C Pérez-Mejías, C Spötl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial and its preceding glacial
termination represent an enigmatically intense climate response to relatively weak insolation …

Warming drives dissolved organic carbon export from pristine alpine soils

AR Pearson, BRS Fox, JC Hellstrom… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite decades of research, the influence of climate on the export of dissolved organic
carbon (DOC) from soil remains poorly constrained, adding uncertainty to global carbon …

Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India

A Giesche, DA Hodell, CA Petrie, GH Haug… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The 4.2-kiloyear event has been described as a global megadrought that
transformed multiple Bronze Age complex societies, including the Indus Civilization, located …

Holocene variability of East Asian summer monsoon as viewed from the speleothem δ18O records in central China

Y Cai, X Cheng, L Ma, R Mao, SFM Breitenbach… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Monsoon precipitation in East China shows distinct spatial distribution and its
variability is closely linked with the changes of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) …

Zonal control on Holocene precipitation in northwestern Madagascar based on a stalagmite from Anjohibe

RR Dawson, SJ Burns, BH Tiger, D McGee, P Faina… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Malagasy Summer Monsoon is an important part of the larger Indian Ocean
and tropical monsoon region. As the effects of global warming play out, changes to …

Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles of the penultimate and last glacial period recorded in stalagmites from Türkiye

F Held, H Cheng, RL Edwards, O Tüysüz, K Koç… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The last glacial period is characterized by abrupt climate oscillations, also known as
Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) cycles. However, DO cycles remain poorly documented in …

[HTML][HTML] Speleothems in subglacial caves: An emerging archive of glacial climate history and mountain glacier dynamics

C Spötl, JL Baker, V Skiba, A Honiat… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Speleothems from cold high-elevation (and high-latitude) caves are sensitive
paleoenvironmental archives, because they form close to the freezing point of water, and …