Oxygen isotopes in bioarchaeology: Principles and applications, challenges and opportunities

S Pederzani, K Britton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Oxygen isotope analyses of skeletal remains (18 O/16 O, δ 18 O) are a powerful tool for
exploring major themes in bioarchaeology (the study of biological archaeological remains) …

Stable isotopes in atmospheric water vapor and applications to the hydrologic cycle

J Galewsky, HC Steen‐Larsen, RD Field… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The measurement and simulation of water vapor isotopic composition has matured rapidly
over the last decade, with long‐term data sets and comprehensive modeling capabilities …

Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years

X Wang, RL Edwards, AS Auler, H Cheng, X Kong… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Reconstructing the history of tropical hydroclimates has been difficult, particularly for the
Amazon basin—one of Earth's major centres of deep atmospheric convection,. For example …

Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

H Cheng, A Sinha, FW Cruz, X Wang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Precise characterization of hydroclimate variability in Amazonia on various timescales is
critical to understanding the link between climate change and biodiversity. Here we present …

The changing character of precipitation

KE Trenberth, A Dai, RM Rasmussen… - Bulletin of the …, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
From a societal, weather, and climate perspective, precipitation intensity, duration,
frequency, and phase are as much of concern as total amounts, as these factors determine …

[图书][B] Sinopsis bioclimática y vegetacional de Chile

F Luebert, P Pliscoff - 2006 - books.google.com
Matorral desértico 3. Matorral desértico tropical interior de Atriplex atacamensis y Tessaria
absinthioides 4. Matorral desértico tropical interior de Malesherbia auristipulata y Tarasa …

Climate change and tropical Andean glaciers: Past, present and future

M Vuille, B Francou, P Wagnon, I Juen, G Kaser… - Earth-science …, 2008 - Elsevier
Observations on glacier extent from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia give a detailed and
unequivocal account of rapid shrinkage of tropical Andean glaciers since the Little Ice Age …

Insolation-driven changes in atmospheric circulation over the past 116,000 years in subtropical Brazil

FW Cruz Jr, SJ Burns, I Karmann, WD Sharp, M Vuille… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
During the last glacial period, large millennial-scale temperature oscillations—the
'Dansgaard/Oeschger'cycles—were the primary climate signal in Northern Hemisphere …

Annually resolved ice core records of tropical climate variability over the past~ 1800 years

LG Thompson, E Mosley-Thompson, ME Davis… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Ice cores from low latitudes can provide a wealth of unique information about past climate in
the tropics, but they are difficult to recover and few exist. Here, we report annually resolved …

Influence of convective processes on the isotopic composition (δ18O and δD) of precipitation and water vapor in the tropics: 2. Physical interpretation of the amount …

C Risi, S Bony, F Vimeux - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In the tropics, the proportion of heavier water isotopes in precipitation is anticorrelated with
the precipitation amount. The physical processes underlying this so‐called amount effect are …