A 9170-year record of decadal-to-multi-centennial scale pluvial episodes from the coastal Southwest United States: a role for atmospheric rivers?

ME Kirby, SRH Zimmerman, WP Patterson… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
A well-dated, 9170 calendar year before present (cal yr BP) paleohydrologic reconstruction
is presented from Lower Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains of the coastal …

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 …

Late Quaternary paleohydrological conditions in the drylands of northern Mexico: a summer precipitation proxy record of the last 80 cal ka BP

PD Roy, JD Quiroz-Jimenez, LL Perez-Cruz… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a late Quaternary multi-proxy record from the paleolake Babicora in order to
understand the influence of North American Monsoon (NAM) and westerly winter storms on …

A Holocene record of Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO)-related hydrologic variability in southern California (Lake Elsinore, CA)

ME Kirby, SP Lund, WP Patterson, MA Anderson… - Journal of …, 2010 - Springer
High-resolution terrestrial records of Holocene climate from Southern California are scarce.
Moreover, there are no records of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) variability, a major …

Evidence for insolation and Pacific forcing of late glacial through Holocene climate in the Central Mojave Desert (Silver Lake, CA)

ME Kirby, EJ Knell, WT Anderson, MS Lachniet… - Quaternary …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Silver Lake is the modern terminal playa of the Mojave River in southern California (USA).
As a result, it is well located to record both influences from the winter precipitation dominated …

Insolation forcing of Holocene climate change in Southern California: a sediment study from Lake Elsinore

ME Kirby, SP Lund, MA Anderson, BW Bird - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2007 - Springer
Lake Elsinore is the largest natural lake in Southern California. As such, the lake provides a
unique opportunity to investigate terrestrial climate on timescales otherwise …

Holocene hydroclimatic variability recorded in sediments from Maddox Lake (northern California Coast Range)

M Kirby, J Barbosa, J Carlin, G MacDonald… - Quaternary …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Perspectives on past climate using lake sediments are critical for assessing modern and
future climate change. These perspectives are especially important for water-stressed …

A half-million-year record of paleoclimate from the Lake Manix Core, Mojave Desert, California

MC Reheis, J Bright, SP Lund, DM Miller… - Palaeogeography …, 2012 - Elsevier
Pluvial lakes in the southwestern US responded sensitively to past climate through effects
on rainfall, runoff, and evaporation. Although most studies agree that pluvial lakes in the …

Geochemical record of Late Quaternary paleoclimate from lacustrine sediments of paleo-lake San Felipe, western Sonora Desert, Mexico

PD Roy, M Caballero, R Lozano, B Ortega… - Journal of South …, 2010 - Elsevier
Stratigraphy, mineralogy, major and trace elements, organic carbon, carbonate, sulfate and
AMS 14C dates are used to infer Late Quaternary depositional environments and paleo …

An enhanced role for the Tropical Pacific on the humid Pleistocene–Holocene transition in southwestern North America

JL Antinao, E McDonald - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Climate effects on landscape evolution during the Late Pleistocene–Holocene transition (∼
14.6–8 ka) in southwestern North America traditionally are linked to the activity of the North …