Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Palaeoclimate perspectives on the Indian Ocean dipole

NJ Abram, JA Hargreaves, NM Wright… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) has major climate impacts worldwide, and most
profoundly for nations around the Indian Ocean basin. It has been 20 years since the IOD …

Heat and freshwater changes in the Indian Ocean region

CC Ummenhofer, SA Murty, J Sprintall, T Lee… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Across the Indo-Pacific region, rapid increases in surface temperatures, ocean heat
content and concomitant hydrological changes have implications for sea level rise, ocean …

Multi-scale ocean dynamical processes in the Indo-Pacific Convergence Zone and their climatic and ecological effects

Y Du, F Wang, T Wang, W Liu, L Liang, Y Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indo-Pacific Convergence Zone (IPCZ) has a complex ocean dynamical
system. All scale processes are active and interplay from small-scale turbulent mixing to …

Identifying Hydro‐Sensitive Coral δ18O Records for Improved High‐Resolution Temperature and Salinity Reconstructions

DM Thompson, JL Conroy, BL Konecky… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stable oxygen isotopic ratios in corals (δ18Ocoral) are commonly utilized to reconstruct
climate variability beyond the limit of instrumental observations. These measurements …

A universal multi-trace element calibration for reconstructing sea surface temperatures from long-lived Porites corals: Removing 'vital-effects'

JP D'Olivo, DJ Sinclair, K Rankenburg… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Trace element abundances in corals can potentially provide high-resolution seasonally
resolved constraints on past sea-surface temperatures, much needed to improve our …

Coral‐based sea surface salinity reconstructions and the role of observational uncertainties in inferred variability and trends

EV Reed, DM Thompson… - Paleoceanography and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate observations in much of the tropical oceans are scarce during most of the 20th
century, so paleoclimate proxies are needed to understand the full range of natural climate …

The CoralHydro2k Database: a global, actively curated compilation of coral δ18O and Sr / Ca proxy records of tropical ocean hydrology and temperature for the …

RM Walter, HR Sayani, T Felis, KM Cobb… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
The response of the hydrological cycle to anthropogenic climate change, especially across
the tropical oceans, remains poorly understood due to the scarcity of long instrumental …

What did determine the warming trend in the Indonesian sea?

I Iskandar, W Mardiansyah, DO Lestari… - Progress in Earth and …, 2020 - Springer
The Indonesian sea is the only low-latitude pathway connecting two tropical oceans, which
plays an important role in the coupled ocean-atmosphere mode in the Indo-Pacific sector. A …

Mild and arid climate in the eastern Sahara‐Arabian Desert during the late Little Ice Age

T Felis, M Ionita, N Rimbu, G Lohmann… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The climate of the Sahara and Arabian Deserts during the Little Ice Age is not well known,
due to a lack of annually resolved natural and documentary archives. We present an annual …