What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review

O Kwiecien, T Braun, CF Brunello, P Faulkner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

A review of speleothems as archives for paleofire proxies, with Australian case studies

M Campbell, L McDonough, PC Treble… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires affect 40% of the earth's terrestrial biome, but much of our knowledge of wildfire
activity is limited to the satellite era. Improved understanding of past fires is necessary to …

Determining key upstream convection and rainout zones affecting δ18O in water vapor and precipitation based on 10-year continuous observations in the East Asian …

Z Zhan, H Pang, S Wu, Z Liu, W Zhang, T Xu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
An increasing number of studies have recognized the crucial impact of upstream convective
activities and rainout processes on the stable isotopic composition of precipitation (δ 18 O p) …

Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene

EM Finestone, PS Breeze, SFM Breitenbach, N Drake… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin
dispersal during the Middle Pleistocene. However, the scarcity of stratified and dated …

Deciphering temperature seasonality in Earth's ancient oceans

LC Ivany, EJ Judd - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Ongoing global warming due to anthropogenic climate change has long been recognized,
yet uncertainties regarding how seasonal extremes will change in the future persist …

Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies

T Braun, SFM Breitenbach, V Skiba… - … earth & environment, 2023 - nature.com
Classic Maya populations living in peri-urban states were highly dependent on seasonally
distributed rainfall for reliable surplus crop yields. Despite intense study of the potential …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring soluble and colloidally transported trace elements in stalagmites: The strontium-yttrium connection

JT Sliwinski, O Kost, L Endres, M Iglesias… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
While seasonality in speleothem trace element signatures is well-documented, the
parameters that control the emergence of laminations vary between elements and tend to be …

Contemporaneously growing speleothems and their value to decipher in-cave processes–A modelling approach

V Skiba, J Fohlmeister - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades speleothems have become valuable climate archives and are of crucial
importance for the investigation of past climate conditions. Albeit much progress has been …

The difference in time delay of δ18O, δ13CDIC and Mg/Ca to the hydroclimate change monitored in a subtropical cave, South China

W Tang, JJ Yin, G Lan, X Wu, Y Ma, H Yang… - Applied Geochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Speleothem δ 18 O, δ 13 C DIC, and Mg/Ca are widely used to reconstruct past climatic and
environmental changes. However, due to the rainfall regime and hydrological structure of …

[HTML][HTML] SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database

N Kaushal, FA Lechleitner, M Wilhelm… - … system science data, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Palaeoclimate information on multiple climate variables at different spatiotemporal scales is
becoming increasingly important to understand environmental and societal responses to …