Continental carbonates as indicators of paleoclimate

LH Tanner - Developments in Sedimentology, 2010 - Elsevier
The formation of carbonate sediments in continental environments is subject to numerous
environmental controls, of which climate is one of the foremost. Consequently, calcareous …

[HTML][HTML] Global footprints of dansgaard-oeschger oscillations in a GCM

K Izumi, E Armstrong, P Valdes - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanisms driving the Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) cycles remain uncertain, but
promising hypotheses could explain it, and a comprehensive assessment of its impact is …

Moisture variability in the southwestern United States linked to abrupt glacial climate change

JDM Wagner, JE Cole, JW Beck, PJ Patchett… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Many regions of the world experienced abrupt climate variability during the last glacial
period (75–15 thousand years ago,). These changes probably arose from interactions …

Future loss of Arctic sea-ice cover could drive a substantial decrease in California's rainfall

I Cvijanovic, BD Santer, C Bonfils, DD Lucas… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
From 2012 to 2016, California experienced one of the worst droughts since the start of
observational records. As in previous dry periods, precipitation-inducing winter storms were …

A 249 kyr stack of eight loess grain size records from northern China documenting millennial‐scale climate variability

S Yang, Z Ding - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In order to construct a stacked climatic record of millennial‐scale variability for northern
China, grain size was measured for 12,330 samples from eight thick loess sections …

Response of a modern cave system to large seasonal precipitation variability

JL Oster, IP Montañez, NP Kelley - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Speleothems are capable of providing information on the response of middle and low-
latitude terrestrial environments to global climate change during the Pleistocene and …

A framework for triple oxygen isotopes in speleothem paleoclimatology

TE Huth, BH Passey, JE Cole, MS Lachniet… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Speleothem oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) records provide key insight into the rate and timing of
terrestrial paleoclimate changes during the late Quaternary. However, it can be difficult to …

Abrupt reorganization of North Pacific and western North American climate during the last deglaciation

JM Lora, JL Mitchell, AE Tripati - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Dramatic hydroclimate shifts occurred in western North America during the last deglaciation,
but the timing and mechanisms driving these changes are uncertain and debated, and …

Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial

L Comas-Bru, SP Harrison, M Werner… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
Although quantitative isotopic data from speleothems has been used to evaluate isotope-
enabled model simulations, currently no consensus exists regarding the most appropriate …

Rise and fall of late Pleistocene pluvial lakes in response to reduced evaporation and precipitation: Evidence from Lake Surprise, California

DE Ibarra, AE Egger, KL Weaver, CR Harris… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Widespread late Pleistocene lake systems of the Basin and Range Province indicate
substantially greater moisture availability during glacial periods relative to modern times, but …