North American megadroughts in the Common Era: Reconstructions and simulations

BI Cook, ER Cook, JE Smerdon… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), Western North America experienced episodes
of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well …

Shell midden sclerochronology

CFT Andrus - Quaternary science reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Sclerochronological analysis of shell midden faunal remains offers a unique opportunity to
study climate and environmental change in relation to human activity. Middens exist near …

[HTML][HTML] A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

PAGES2k Consortium - Scientific data, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to
placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present …

Atlantic circulation change still uncertain

KH Kilbourne, AD Wanamaker, P Moffa-Sanchez… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
MATTERS ARISING NATURE GEOSCIENCE they do not directly respond to the AMOC and
their signal may be compromised by other non-physical factors. For instance, the Sherwood …

Recent warming and decadal variability of Gulf of Maine and Slope Water

D Seidov, A Mishonov… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of Maine, Scotian Shelf, Slope Sea, and
surroundings are determined by interplay of two major circulation systems—the Gulf Stream …

Creation of a gilded trap by the high economic value of the Maine lobster fishery

RS Steneck, TP Hughes, JE Cinner… - Conservation …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance
on a few economically valuable species. This lack of diversity may increase risks of …

Support for global climate reorganization during the “Medieval Climate Anomaly”

NE Graham, CM Ammann, D Fleitmann, KM Cobb… - Climate dynamics, 2011 - Springer
Widely distributed proxy records indicate that the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA;~ 900–
1350 AD) was characterized by coherent shifts in large-scale Northern Hemisphere …

North Atlantic storminess and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the last Millennium: Reconciling contradictory proxy records of NAO variability

V Trouet, JD Scourse, CC Raible - Global and Planetary Change, 2012 - Elsevier
Within the last Millennium, the transition between the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA; ca.
1000–1300CE) and the Little Ice Age (LIA; ca. 1400–1800CE) has been recorded in a …

Arctica islandica (Bivalvia): a unique paleoenvironmental archive of the northern North Atlantic Ocean

BR Schöne - Global and Planetary Change, 2013 - Elsevier
High-resolution environmental proxy data from the extratropical North Atlantic prior to the
instrumental era are of critical importance to decipher processes and mechanisms of global …

The curse of physiology—challenges and opportunities in the interpretation of geochemical data from mollusk shells

BR Schöne - Geo-Marine Letters, 2008 - Springer
Physiology corrupts geochemical records of mollusk shells in many ways, eg, by actively
controlling the incorporation of trace elements in the skeleton. However, the effects of …