Advancements in the use of speleothems as climate archives

CI Wong, DO Breecker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Speleothems have become a cornerstone of the approach to better understanding Earth's
climatic teleconnections due to their precise absolute chronologies, their continuous or …

The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

H Cheng, RL Edwards, A Sinha, C Spötl, L Yi, S Chen… - nature, 2016 - nature.com
Oxygen isotope records from Chinese caves characterize changes in both the Asian
monsoon and global climate. Here, using our new speleothem data, we extend the Chinese …

Sedimentary and geomorphic evidence of Saharan megalakes: A synthesis

NA Drake, I Candy, P Breeze, SJ Armitage… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
It has long been recognised that the Sahara Desert contains sediment, landform and
palaeoecological evidence for phases of increased humidity during the Quaternary period …

Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

J Louys, P Roberts - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for understanding hominin and
mammalian migrations and extinctions. High-profile discoveries have shown that Southeast …

What controls deuterium excess in global precipitation?

S Pfahl, H Sodemann - Climate of the Past, 2014 - cp.copernicus.org
The deuterium excess (d) of precipitation is widely used in the reconstruction of past climatic
changes from ice cores. However, its most common interpretation as moisture source …

An 800-kyr record of global surface ocean δ18O and implications for ice volume-temperature coupling

JD Shakun, DW Lea, LE Lisiecki, ME Raymo - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The sequence of feedbacks that characterized 100-kyr glacial cycles of the past million
years remains uncertain, hampering an understanding of the interconnections between …

Rapid interhemispheric climate links via the Australasian monsoon during the last deglaciation

LK Ayliffe, MK Gagan, J Zhao, RN Drysdale… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Recent studies have proposed that millennial-scale reorganization of the ocean-atmosphere
circulation drives increased upwelling in the Southern Ocean, leading to rising atmospheric …

Varied response of western Pacific hydrology to climate forcings over the last glacial period

SA Carolin, KM Cobb, JF Adkins, B Clark, JL Conroy… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Atmospheric deep convection in the west Pacific plays a key role in the global heat and
moisture budgets, yet its response to orbital and abrupt climate change events is poorly …

Diurnal to interannual rainfall δ18O variations in northern Borneo driven by regional hydrology

JW Moerman, KM Cobb, JF Adkins… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
The relationship between climate variability and rainfall oxygen isotopic (δ18O) variability is
poorly constrained, especially in the tropics, where many key paleoclimate records rely on …

The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

K Atsawawaranunt, L Comas-Bru… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most
particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and …