The spatial pattern of precipitation variability in tropical and subtropical Africa over the late
Quaternary has long been debated. Prevailing hypotheses variously infer (1) insolation …

Lake Chad is a strategic water resource shared by more than 40 million people in Sub-
Saharan Africa. In the 1960s, it served as a primary source of water for irrigation and fishing …

From the deglacial period to the mid-Holocene, North Africa was characterized by much
wetter conditions than today. The broad timing of this period, termed the African Humid …

In modern environmental and climate science it is necessary to assimilate observational
datasets collected over decades with outputs from numerical models, to enable a full …

There is ample evidence from palaeobotanic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions that during
early and mid-Holocene between some 11,700 years (in some regions, a few thousand …

Abstract The African Humid Period (∼ 11,000–5,000 years before present) was the most
recent of several precessionally paced wet intervals during which an increase in the …

In the Sahelian belt, Lake Chad is a key water body for 13 million people, who live on its
resources. It experiences, however, substantial and frequent surface changes. Located at …

Abstract The Caspian Sea (CS) is the largest inland lake in the world. Large variations in
sea level and surface area occurred in the past and are projected for the future. The …

Hominins evolved in Africa during a period of overall regional cooling, drying, and
increasingly variable climate. Despite prevailing regional aridity since the mid-Miocene, data …

The tectonically induced closure/constriction of the Central American Seaway (CAS) and
Indonesian Seaway (Indo) during the early to mid-Pliocene has been associated with many …