The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon:'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity

SE Metcalfe, JA Barron, SJ Davies - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent
areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate …

[HTML][HTML] An 1800-year oxygen-isotope record of short-and long-term hydroclimate variability in the northern neotropics from a Jamaican marl lake

J Holmes, M Burn, LM Cisneros-Dozal, M Jones… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydroclimate variability on multi-decadal timescales has been a prominent feature of the
circum-Caribbean region over the common era, with marked dry intervals noted in particular …

Carbon isotope composition of long chain leaf wax n-alkanes in lake sediments: A dual indicator of paleoenvironment in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

W Liu, H Yang, H Wang, Z An, Z Wang, Q Leng - Organic Geochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
The carbon isotope composition (δ 13 C values) of long chain n-alkanes in lake sediments
has been considered a reliable means of tracking changes in the terrigenous contribution of …

The Páramo ecosystem of Costa Rica's highlands

M Kappelle, SP Horn - Costa Rican Ecosystems, 2016 - degruyter.com
Páramo is a grass-or shrub-dominated ecosystem that occupies the cool and wet upper
slopes of tropical mountains, at alpine elevations above the timber or tree line and below the …

Insight into the stable isotopic composition of glacial lakes in a tropical alpine ecosystem: C hirripó, C osta R ica

G Esquivel‐Hernández… - Hydrological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical high‐elevation lakes are considered sentinels of global climate change. This work
characterizes the hydrological conditions of tropical alpine glacial lakes located in the …

Lakes in Costa Rica

SP Horn, G Umaña-Villalobos, KA Haberyan - Landscapes and Landforms …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Lakes occur throughout Costa Rica, in a variety of geomorphic settings. Nearly
every possible mode of lake formation has occurred, involving processes related to …

Independent variations of CH4 emissions and isotopic composition over the past 160,000 years

L Möller, T Sowers, M Bock, R Spahni, M Behrens… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
During the last glacial cycle, greenhouse gas concentrations fluctuated on decadal and
longer timescales. Concentrations of methane, as measured in polar ice cores, show a close …

Depositional histories of vegetation and rainfall intensity in Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains (northeast Mexico) since the late Last Glacial

PD Roy, G Vera-Vera, JL Sánchez-Zavala… - Global and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
An evaporite enriched sediment archive from the dry Sandia Basin located in the water-
stressed western foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains (northeast Mexico) was …

Low latitude hydro-climatic changes during the Plio-Pleistocene: evidence from high resolution alkane records in the southern South China Sea

L Li, Q Li, J Tian, H Wang, P Wang - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
High resolution records of long chain n-alkane biomarkers from the southern South China
Sea reveal tightly response of n-alkane distribution to hydro-climate changes over the past 5 …

Late Holocene hydroclimate variability in Costa Rica: Signature of the terminal classic drought and the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the northern tropical Americas

J Wu, DF Porinchu, SP Horn - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
In the northern tropical Americas (Neotropics), notable hydrological variability has been
documented in multi-proxy paleoclimate records between∼ 600 and 1200 CE. This interval …