South Asian summer monsoon variability during the last∼ 54 kyrs inferred from surface water salinity and river runoff proxies

D Gebregiorgis, EC Hathorne, AV Sijinkumar… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The past variability of the South Asian Monsoon is mostly known from records of wind
strength over the Arabian Sea while high-resolution paleorecords from regions of strong …

A 500,000 year record of Indian summer monsoon dynamics recorded by eastern equatorial Indian Ocean upper water-column structure

CT Bolton, L Chang, SC Clemens, K Kodama… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) is an inter-hemispheric and highly variable
ocean–atmosphere–land interaction that directly affects the densely populated Indian …

Atmospheric CO2 decline during the Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciations

G Bartoli, B Hönisch, RE Zeebe - Paleoceanography, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the onset of intensive glaciations on
Greenland, Scandinavia, and North America during the Pliocene epoch between 3.6 and 2.7 …

Decrease in coccolithophore calcification and CO2 since the middle Miocene

CT Bolton, MT Hernández-Sánchez, MÁ Fuertes… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Marine algae are instrumental in carbon cycling and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)
regulation. One group, coccolithophores, uses carbon to photosynthesize and to calcify …

A robust calibration of the clumped isotopes to temperature relationship for foraminifers

N Meinicke, SL Ho, B Hannisdal, D Nürnberg… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The clumped isotope (Δ 47) proxy is a promising geochemical tool to reconstruct past ocean
temperatures far back in time and in unknown settings, due to its unique thermodynamic …

Early Pliocene increase in thermohaline overturning: A precondition for the development of the modern equatorial Pacific cold tongue

S Steph, R Tiedemann, M Prange… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Unraveling the processes responsible for Earth's climate transition from an “El Niño–like
state” during the warm early Pliocene into a modern‐like “La Niña–dominated state” …

Global dissolution effects on planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios controlled by the calcite‐saturation state of bottom waters

M Regenberg, A Regenberg… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mg/Ca ratios of planktonic foraminiferal tests are important tools for reconstructing past
ocean temperatures at different levels of the upper water column. Yet numerous studies …

Stable oxygen isotopes and Mg/Ca in planktic foraminifera from modern surface sediments of the Western Pacific Warm Pool: Implications for thermocline …

M Hollstein, M Mohtadi, Y Rosenthal… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mg/Ca and stable oxygen isotope compositions (δ18O) of planktic foraminifera tests are
commonly used as proxies to reconstruct past ocean conditions including variations in the …

Indian winter and summer monsoon strength over the 4.2 ka BP event in foraminifer isotope records from the Indus River delta in the Arabian Sea

A Giesche, M Staubwasser, CA Petrie… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
The plains of northwest South Asia receive rainfall during both the Indian summer (June–
September) and winter (December–March) monsoon. Researchers have long attempted to …

Calcification, dissolution and test properties of modern planktonic foraminifera from the central Atlantic Ocean

SD Zarkogiannis, S Iwasaki, JWB Rae… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The mass of well-preserved calcite in planktonic foraminifera shells provides an indication of
the calcification potential of the surface ocean. Here we report the shell weight of 8 different …