Eastern Mediterranean climate change deduced from the Soreq Cave fluid inclusion stable isotopes and carbonate clumped isotopes record of the last 160 ka

A Matthews, HP Affek, A Ayalon, HB Vonhof… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
A fundamental issue in the interpretation of speleothem calcite δ 18 O cc records is the
correct partitioning of the effects of temperature and water δ 18 O variations. This study …

The PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3-CMIP5 simulations

M Kageyama, SP Harrison, ML Kapsch… - Climate of the Past …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM,~ 21,000 years ago) has been a major focus for evaluating
how well state-of-the-art climate models simulate climate changes as large as those …

Varves of the Dead Sea sedimentary record

YB Dor, I Neugebauer, Y Enzel, MJ Schwab… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The sedimentary record of the Dead Sea provides an exceptional high-resolution archive of
past climate changes in the drought-sensitive eastern Mediterranean-Levant, a key region …

Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

A Sinha, G Kathayat, H Weiss, H Li, H Cheng… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Northern Iraq was the political and economic center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 912 to
609 BCE)—the largest and most powerful empire of its time. After more than two centuries of …

Hydroclimatic changes on multiple timescales since 7800 y BP in the winter precipitation–dominated Central Asia

L Tan, H Cheng, D Li, R Orozbaev… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Central Asia (CA) is one of the world's most significant arid regions, which is markedly
impacted by global warming. A better understanding of the dynamical processes governing …

Weakened AMOC related to cooling and atmospheric circulation shifts in the last interglacial Eastern Mediterranean

EJ Levy, HB Vonhof, M Bar-Matthews… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is limited understanding of temperature and atmospheric circulation changes that
accompany an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) slowdown beyond the …

Last glacial maximum hydro-climate and cyclone characteristics in the Levant: a regional modelling perspective

P Ludwig, A Hochman - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Proxy-based hydro-climate reconstructions in the Levant suggest enhanced water
availability during the last glacial maximum (LGM) compared to present-day conditions. To …

The impact of moisture sources on the oxygen isotope composition of precipitation at a continental site in central Europe

K Krklec, D Domínguez-Villar, S Lojen - Journal of hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
The stable isotope composition of precipitation records processes taking place within the
hydrological cycle. Potentially, moisture sources are important controls on the stable isotope …

A novel application of triple oxygen isotope ratios of speleothems

L Sha, S Mahata, P Duan, B Luz, P Zhang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
We present triple oxygen isotope data from speleothems obtained by an O 2-CO 2 Pt-
catalyzed oxygen-isotope equilibration method. The high precision (9 per meg or better, 1σ …

Hydro-climate research of the late Quaternary of the Eastern Mediterranean-Levant region based on speleothems research–A review

M Bar-Matthews, J Keinan, A Ayalon - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Mediterranean (EM)-Levant region is the eastern borderland of the
Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS). The EMS brings Mediterranean climate zones to the …