Solar influences on climate

LJ Gray, J Beer, M Geller, JD Haigh… - Reviews of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate requires knowledge of
solar variability, solar‐terrestrial interactions, and the mechanisms determining the response …

The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon:'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity

SE Metcalfe, JA Barron, SJ Davies - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent
areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate …

Dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone over the western Pacific during the Little Ice Age

H Yan, W Wei, W Soon, Z An, W Zhou, Z Liu… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Precipitation in low latitudes is primarily controlled by the position of the intertropical
convergence zone, which migrates from south to north seasonally. The Little Ice Age …

Variability in the mean latitude of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone as recorded by riverine input of sediments to the Cariaco Basin (Venezuela)

LC Peterson, GH Haug - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2006 - Elsevier
Changes in the strength and position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) are an
important component of climate variability in the tropical Atlantic. The Cariaco Basin, located …

Climate change on the Yucatan Peninsula during the little ice age

DA Hodell, M Brenner, JH Curtis… - Quaternary …, 2005 - cambridge.org
We studied a 5.1-m sediment core from Aguada X'caamal (20° 36.6′ N, 89° 42.9′ W), a
small sinkhole lake in northwest Yucatan, Mexico. Between 1400 and 1500 AD, oxygen …

Climate variability over the last two millennia in the North American Monsoon region, recorded in laminated lake sediments from Laguna de Juanacatlán, Mexico

SE Metcalfe, MD Jones, SJ Davies, A Noren… - The …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
High-resolution titanium (Ti) data obtained using an ITRAX XRF core scanner from a
laminated sediment core from the Laguna de Juanacatlán, western central Mexico yield a …

The medieval climate anomaly in South America

S Lüning, M Gałka, FP Bamonte, FG Rodríguez… - Quaternary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a climatic perturbation with a core period
of 1000-1200 AD that is well-recognized in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). Its existence in …

A 1500‐year El Niño/Southern Oscillation and rainfall history for the isthmus of Panama from speleothem calcite

MS Lachniet, SJ Burns, DR Piperno… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on tropical rainfall variations of the
past 2 millennia is largely unknown. High‐resolution monsoon records are sparse, despite …

Paleoenvironmental evidence for first human colonization of the eastern Caribbean

PE Siegel, JG Jones, DM Pearsall, NP Dunning… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Identifying and dating first human colonization of new places is challenging, especially when
group sizes were small and material traces of their occupations were ephemeral. Generating …

An 8‐century tropical Atlantic SST record from the Cariaco Basin: Baseline variability, twentieth‐century warming, and Atlantic hurricane frequency

DE Black, MA Abahazi, RC Thunell, A Kaplan… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We present the first direct comparison and calibration of a downcore foraminiferal Mg/Ca
record to historical instrumental sea surface temperature (SST). Mg/Ca measured on the …