South American monsoon intensification during the last millennium driven by joint Pacific and Atlantic forcing

Z Lyu, M Vuille, H Goosse, R Orrison, VF Novello… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The South American summer monsoon (SASM) profoundly influences tropical South
America's climate, yet understanding its low-frequency variability has been challenging …

Interannual variations in stable isotopes of atmospheric water in arid Central Asia due to changes in atmospheric circulation

S Wang, G Yang, J Bershaw, X Liu, K Yoshimura… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The oxygen isotope compositions in atmospheric water including water vapor and
precipitation have been widely used to trace moisture sources and to reconstruct past …

Cave monitoring in the Peruvian Andes reveals monsoon climate preserved in speleothem calcite

E Olson, DP Gillikin, L Piccirillo, A Verheyden… - Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Speleothem paleoclimate records from the Peruvian Andes have been interpreted to reflect
the strength of the South American monsoon. While these interpretations have been verified …

[HTML][HTML] SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database

N Kaushal, FA Lechleitner, M Wilhelm… - … system science data, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Palaeoclimate information on multiple climate variables at different spatiotemporal scales is
becoming increasingly important to understand environmental and societal responses to …

The 1,000-year context of extreme precipitation in the Central US from a novel blend of observations and climate model simulations

AJ Thompson, JA Hutchings, BL Konecky - Journal of Climate, 2025 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global warming is increasing the frequency of extreme precipitation events, including those
referred to as having a return period of 1,000 years. Yet, frequency estimates of these high …

The SISAL webApp: exploring the speleothem climate and environmental archives of the world

IG Hatvani, Z Kern, P Tanos, M Wilhelm… - Quaternary …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We present the 'SISAL webApp'—a web-based tool to query the Speleothem Isotope
Synthesis and AnaLysis (SISAL) database. The software provides an easy-to-use front-end …

[HTML][HTML] Simulated stable water isotopes during the mid-Holocene and pre-industrial periods using AWI-ESM-2.1-wiso

X Shi, A Cauquoin, G Lohmann… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
Numerical simulations employing prognostic stable water isotopes can not only facilitate our
understanding of hydrological processes and climate change but also allow for a direct …

West African Monsoon dynamics and its control on the stable oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation in the Late Cenozoic

D Boateng, JNA Aryee, M Baidu… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents an overview of the Late Cenozoic evolution of the West African Monsoon
(WAM), and the associated changes in atmospheric dynamics and oxygen isotopic …

Simulated stable water isotopes during the mid-Holocene and pre-industrial using AWI-ESM-2.1-wiso

X Shi, A Cauquoin, G Lohmann… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
Numerical simulations employing prognostic stable water isotopes can not only facilitate our
understanding of hydrological processes and climate change but also allow for a …

Speleothems

K Braun, AG Latham - Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, 2023 - Springer
The term speleothem is used to cover all secondary chemical deposits in caves and,
occasionally, of mines in limestone (karst) terrains. Its etymology is from the Greek …