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 …

Loss of a globally unique kelp forest from Oman

MA Coleman, M Reddy, MJ Nimbs, A Marshell… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Kelp forests are declining in many regions globally with climatic perturbations causing shifts
to alternate communities and significant ecological and economic loss. Range edge …

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 …

Responses of satellite chlorophyll-a to the extreme sea surface temperatures over the Arabian and Omani Gulf

M Hamdeno, H Nagy, O Ibrahim, B Mohamed - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Extreme events such as Marine Heat Waves (MHWs) and Low Chlorophyll-a (LChl-a) in the
ocean have devastating impacts on the marine environment, particularly when they occur …

Oman corals suggest that a stronger winter shamal season caused the Akkadian Empire (Mesopotamia) collapse

TK Watanabe, T Watanabe, A Yamazaki… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Akkadian Empire was the first united empire in Mesopotamia and was
established at 4.6 kyr BP (where present is AD 1950). The empire abruptly collapsed in …

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 …

Variability of SST and ILD in the Arabian Sea and Sea of Oman in Association with the Monsoon Cycle

S Khan, S Piao, IU Khan, B Xu, S Khan… - Mathematical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sea surface temperature (SST) and isothermal layer depth (ILD) are important oceanic
parameters and could play a significant role in understanding the upper thermal structure as …

Corals reveal an unprecedented decrease of Arabian Sea upwelling during the current warming era

TK Watanabe, T Watanabe, M Pfeiffer… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Upwelling in the Arabian Sea driven by the Indian summer monsoon pumps deep,
cold, and eutrophic seawater to the sea surface every summer. The Indian summer …

Calibration of Sr/Ca, Li/Mg and Sr‐U paleothermometry in branching and foliose corals

CL Ross, TM DeCarlo… - Paleoceanography and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coral skeletons are the most commonly used high‐resolution temperature proxy in the
tropical oceans, providing paleoclimate reconstructions dating back centuries to millennia …

A Simple Monte Carlo Approach to Estimate the Uncertainties of SST and δ18Osw Inferred From Coral Proxies

TK Watanabe, M Pfeiffer - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The skeletons of massive corals inhabiting tropical and subtropical oceans grow over
centuries. The chemical and isotopic compositions of their skeletons reflect changes in the …