Mountains significantly influence weather and climate on Earth, including disturbed surface
winds; altered distribution of precipitation; gravity waves reaching the upper atmosphere; …

While the climate evolution of North America during the last deglaciation has received
considerable attention, few detailed model–data comparisons of the deglacial hydroclimate …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

Although the Pacific Ocean is a major reservoir of heat and CO2, and thus an important
component of the global climate system, its circulation under different climatic conditions is …

Abstract Knowledge of the interactions among atmospheric dynamics, dust emissions and
climate system is essential to understand the physical mechanisms for the dust lifecycle …

The Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) once covered an area comparable to that of Greenland.
Previous geologic evidence and numerical models indicate that the ice sheet covered much …

Lake and cave records show that winter precipitation in the southwestern United States
increased substantially during millennial-scale periods of Northern Hemisphere winter …

Central Asia (CA) is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, and faces an
extreme risk of continued aridification under the current global warming trend. To predict …

As the dominant large herbivore in midcontinent North America since the terminal
Pleistocene, bison (Bison spp.) have been a fundamental component of ecosystems and …

North Pacific atmospheric and oceanic circulations are key missing pieces in our
understanding of the reorganization of the global climate system since the Last Glacial …