Panigarh cave stalagmite evidence of climate change in the Indian Central Himalaya since AD 1256: Monsoon breaks and winter southern jet depressions

F Liang, GA Brook, BS Kotlia, LB Railsback… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Variations in petrography, stable isotopes, reflectance, and luminescence along the central
growth axis of a 14.5 cm stalagmite from Panigarh cave indicate cooler and slightly wetter …

Droughts and societal change: The environmental context for the emergence of Islam in late Antique Arabia

D Fleitmann, J Haldon, RS Bradley, SJ Burns, H Cheng… - Science, 2022 - science.org
In Arabia, the first half of the sixth century CE was marked by the demise of Himyar, the
dominant power in Arabia until 525 CE. Important social and political changes followed …

Holocene aridification of India

C Ponton, L Giosan, TI Eglinton… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Spanning a latitudinal range typical for deserts, the Indian peninsula is fertile instead and
sustains over a billion people through monsoonal rains. Despite the strong link between …

Hydroclimatic shifts in northeast Thailand during the last two millennia–The record of Lake Pa Kho

S Chawchai, A Chabangborn, S Fritz… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southeast Asian mainland is located in the central path of the Asian summer
monsoon, a region where paleoclimatic data are still sparse. Here we present a multi-proxy …

Abrupt changes in the southwest monsoon during Mid-Late Holocene in the western Bay of Bengal

P Govil, A Mazumder, S Agrawal, S Azharuddin… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work aims to understand the variation in the southwest monsoon (SWM) and the
surface water hydrography around the western Bay of Bengal (WBoB). In this study, we used …

Warming and cooling: the medieval climate anomaly in Africa and Arabia

S Lüning, M Gałka, F Vahrenholt - Paleoceanography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a well‐recognized climate perturbation in
many parts of the world, with a core period of 1000–1200 Common Era. Here we present a …

Resilience of small-scale societies: a view from drylands

AL Balbo, E Gómez-Baggethun, M Salpeteur, A Puy… - Ecology and …, 2016 - JSTOR
To gain insights on long-term social-ecological resilience, we examined adaptive responses
of small-scale societies to dryland-related hazards in different regions and chronological …

Signatures of global climatic events and forcing factors for the last two millennia from the active mudflats of Rohisa, southern Saurashtra, Gujarat, western India

US Banerji, R Bhushan, AJT Jull - Quaternary International, 2019 - Elsevier
The limited extent of instrumental records going back in time and control of various climatic
variables on Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) has reinvigorated the unprecedented effort in …

Multi-centennial scale SST and Indian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the mid-Holocene and its nonlinear response to solar activity

M Tiwari, SS Nagoji, RS Ganeshram - The Holocene, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) shows a weak correlation with solar variability in the 20th
century. However, such climatological observations on solar activity–monsoon relationship …

Contrasting sea surface temperature of summer and winter monsoon variability in the northern Arabian Sea over the last 25 ka

A Böll, H Schulz, P Munz, T Rixen, B Gaye… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
The seasonal monsoon cycle with winds from the southwest (SW) in summer and from the
northeast (NE) in winter strongly impacts on modern regional sea surface temperature (SST) …