The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

M Bini, G Zanchetta, A Perşoiu, R Cartier… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a
climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence …

Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene

A Hernández, C Martin-Puertas, P Moffa-Sánchez… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Modes of climate variability affect global and regional climates on different spatio-temporal
scales, and they have important impacts on human activities and ecosystems. As these …

Holocene hydro-climatic variability in the Mediterranean: A synthetic multi-proxy reconstruction

M Finné, J Woodbridge, I Labuhn… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Here we identify and analyze proxy data interpreted to reflect hydro-climatic variability over
the last 10,000 years from the Mediterranean region to (1) outline millennial and multi …

Atmospheric blocking induced by the strengthened Siberian High led to drying in west Asia during the 4.2 ka BP event–a hypothesis

A Perşoiu, M Ionita, H Weiss - Climate of the Past, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
Causal explanations for the 4.2 ka BP event are based on the amalgamation of seasonal
and annual records of climate variability that was manifest across global regions dominated …

Sedimentary and geomorphic evidence of Saharan megalakes: A synthesis

NA Drake, I Candy, P Breeze, SJ Armitage… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
It has long been recognised that the Sahara Desert contains sediment, landform and
palaeoecological evidence for phases of increased humidity during the Quaternary period …

The Medieval climate anomaly in the Mediterranean region

S Lüning, L Schulte, S Garcés‐Pastor… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a preindustrial phase of pronounced
natural climate variability with a core period from 1000 to 1200 CE. The paper presents a …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into the climate of northern Iberia during the Younger Dryas and Holocene: The Mendukilo multi-speleothem record

JL Bernal-Wormull, A Moreno, M Bartolomé… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent hydroclimate studies on the Iberian Peninsula have shown a complex regional
pattern in timing and intensity of climate change spanning the Younger Dryas and the …

North Atlantic ice‐rafting, ocean and atmospheric circulation during the Holocene: Insights from Western Mediterranean speleothems

Y Ait Brahim, JA Wassenburg, L Sha… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we present a Holocene rainfall index based on three high‐resolution
speleothem records from the Western Mediterranean, a region under the influence of the …

[HTML][HTML] Millennial-scale fluctuations in Saharan dust supply across the decline of the African Humid Period

C Zielhofer, H von Suchodoletz, WJ Fletcher… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Sahara is the world's largest dust source with significant impacts on trans-Atlantic
terrestrial and large-scale marine ecosystems. Contested views about a gradual or abrupt …

[HTML][HTML] Western Mediterranean hydro-climatic consequences of Holocene ice-rafted debris (Bond) events

C Zielhofer, A Köhler, S Mischke… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
Gerard C. Bond established a Holocene series of North Atlantic ice-rafted debris events
based on quartz and haematite-stained grains recovered from subpolar North Atlantic …