This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

The dust cycle is an integral part of the Earth system. Each year, an estimated 2000 Mt dust
is emitted into the atmosphere, 75% of which is deposited to the land and 25% to the ocean …

The climate is a forced, dissipative, nonlinear, complex, and heterogeneous system that is
out of thermodynamic equilibrium. The system exhibits natural variability on many scales of …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

This is the second edition of Climate Time Series Analysis which was first published in 2010.
In this digital age, a second edition means not that the first edition of a book has been sold …

Climate change is happening due to natural factors and human activities. It expressively
alters biodiversity, agricultural production, and food security. Mainly, narrowly adapted and …

Recent studies consistently find important economic effects of year-to-year weather
fluctuations. I study the economic effects of long-term and gradual climate change over 250 …

The climate during the Cenozoic era changed in several steps from ice‐free poles and warm
conditions to ice‐covered poles and cold conditions. Since the 1950s, a body of information …

An understanding of the age of the Acheulian and the transition to the Middle Stone Age in
southern Africa has been hampered by a lack of reliable dates for key sequences in the …

Paleoclimate studies play a crucial role in understanding past and future climates and their
environmental impacts. Current methodologies for performing highly sensitive elemental …