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 …

Atlantic ITCZ variability during the Holocene based on high-resolution speleothem isotope records from northern Venezuela

NMM Medina, FW Cruz, A Winter, H Zhang… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Few high-resolution paleoclimate proxy records exist in the region located under the direct
influence of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in South America and most of them …

Shipwreck rates reveal Caribbean tropical cyclone response to past radiative forcing

V Trouet, GL Harley… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Assessing the impact of future climate change on North Atlantic tropical cyclone (TC) activity
is of crucial societal importance, but the limited quantity and quality of observational records …

Solar forcing of Caribbean drought events during the last millennium

MJ Burn, SE Palmer - Journal of Quaternary Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase the frequency of drought events in
the earth's subtropical regions. However, the climate dynamics of these regions are not fully …

Atlantic hurricane activity during the last millennium

MJ Burn, SE Palmer - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Hurricanes are a persistent socio-economic hazard for countries situated in and around the
Main Development Region (MDR) of Atlantic tropical cyclones. Climate-model simulations …

Human arrival and landscape dynamics in the northern Bahamas

PL Fall, PJ van Hengstum… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The first Caribbean settlers were Amerindians from South America. Great Abaco and Grand
Bahama, the final islands colonized in the northernmost Bahamas, were inhabited by the …

Middle–late Holocene Caribbean aridity inferred from foraminifera and elemental data in sediment cores from two Cuban lagoons

BRB Gregory, M Peros, EG Reinhardt… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
Coastal lagoons are rarely used as paleoclimate archives because of their complex
geomorphic histories, which can be affected by both climate and sea-level change …

[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 …

Columbus' environmental impact in the New World: Land use change in the Yaque River valley, Dominican Republic

H Hooghiemstra, T Olijhoek, M Hoogland… - The …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Columbus' arrival in the New World in AD 1492 on the northern coast of Hispaniola was
followed by a suite of changes in land-use. We reconstruct environmental change from a …

The history and disappearance of glaciers in Venezuela

C Braun, M Bezada - Journal of Latin American Geography, 2013 - JSTOR
The disappearance of glaciers is Venezuela is chronicled through an extensive compilation
and discussion of the scientific literature, maps, and historical pho tographs. Climate data …