Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

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 …

[LIVRE][B] The great transition

BMS Campbell - 2016 - books.google.com
In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes
in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange …

Circulation effect: response of precipitation δ18O to the ENSO cycle in monsoon regions of China

M Tan - Climate Dynamics, 2014 - Springer
Inter-annual variation in the ratio of 18 O to 16 O of precipitation (δ 18 O p) in the monsoon
regions of China (MRC, area approximately east of 100° E) has not yet been fully analyzed …

The Global Paleomonsoon as seen through speleothem records from Asia and the Americas

H Cheng, A Sinha, X Wang, FW Cruz, RL Edwards - Climate dynamics, 2012 - Springer
The regional monsoons of the world have long been viewed as seasonal atmospheric
circulation reversal—analogous to a thermally-driven land-sea breeze on a continental …

An abrupt shift in the Indian monsoon 4000 years ago

M Berkelhammer, A Sinha, L Stott… - Climates …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) precipitation during the twentieth century is characterized by
a biennial oscillation, such that ISM precipitation varied between singularly strong and weak …

High-precision and high-resolution carbonate 230Th dating by MC-ICP-MS with SEM protocols

CC Shen, CC Wu, H Cheng, RL Edwards… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
To facilitate the measurement of U–Th isotopic compositions suitable for high-precision and
high-resolution 230Th dating of coral and speleothem carbonates, secondary electron …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the risk of persistent drought using climate model simulations and paleoclimate data

TR Ault, JE Cole, JT Overpeck, GT Pederson… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Assessing the Risk of Persistent Drought Using Climate Model Simulations and Paleoclimate
Data in: Journal of Climate Volume 27 Issue 20 (2014) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

[LIVRE][B] Patronage as politics in South Asia

A Piliavsky - 2014 - books.google.com
Western policymakers, political activists and academics alike see patronage as the chief
enemy of open, democratic societies. Patronage, for them, is a corrupting force, a hallmark of …

Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo-Pacific warm pool: A Holocene record from Lonar Lake, central India

S Prasad, A Anoop, N Riedel, S Sarkar… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Concerns about the regional impact of global climate change in a warming scenario have
highlighted the gaps in our understanding of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM, also …