A review of Glacial and Holocene paleoclimate records from southernmost Patagonia (49–55 S)

R Kilian, F Lamy - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Southern South America is the only landmass intersecting the southern westerly wind belt
(SWW) that influences the large-scale oceanography and controls for example the …

Patagonian and southern South Atlantic view of Holocene climate

MR Kaplan, JM Schaefer, JA Strelin, GH Denton… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive 10 Be chronology for Holocene moraines in the Lago
Argentino basin, on the east side of the South Patagonian Icefield. We focus on three …

Climate variability and human impact in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives from pollen records

SGA Flantua, H Hooghiemstra, M Vuille… - Climate of the …, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
An improved understanding of present-day climate variability and change relies on high-
quality data sets from the past 2 millennia. Global efforts to model regional climate modes …

Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem

MS Fletcher, PI Moreno - Quaternary International, 2012 - Elsevier
The prevailing view in the palaeoclimate literature of the last 20 years is that the Southern
Westerly Winds (SWW) were intensified over southern Australia and Tasmania during the …

Southern Annular Mode-like changes in southwestern Patagonia at centennial timescales over the last three millennia

PI Moreno, I Vilanova, R Villa-Martínez… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Late twentieth-century instrumental records reveal a persistent southward shift of the
Southern Westerly Winds during austral summer and autumn associated with a positive …

Combination of humans, climate, and vegetation change triggered Late Quaternary megafauna extinction in the Última Esperanza region, southern Patagonia, Chile

NA Villavicencio, EL Lindsey, FM Martin… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
South America lost around 52 genera of mammals during a worldwide event known as the
Late Quaternary Extinction episode. More than 80% of South American mammals weighing> …

Covariability of the Southern Westerlies and atmospheric CO2 during the Holocene

PI Moreno, JP Francois, CM Moy… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A suite of mechanisms has been proposed to account for natural variations in atmospheric
CO2 during the Holocene; all of which have achieved limited success in reproducing the …

Hydrological variability in South America below the Tropic of Capricorn (Pampas and Patagonia, Argentina) during the last 13.0 ka

EL Piovano, D Ariztegui, F Córdoba, M Cioccale… - Past Climate Variability …, 2009 - Springer
Abstract New limnogeological results (Laguna Mar Chiquita, 30° S) at the middle latitudes in
the subtropical Pampean plains of Southern South America are used to establish …

Southern Hemisphere high-resolution palaeoclimate records of the last 2000 years

R Neukom, J Gergis - The Holocene, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This study presents a comprehensive assessment of high-resolution Southern Hemisphere
(SH) paleoarchives covering the last 2000 years. We identified 174 monthly to annually …

Late and postglacial vegetation and fire history in Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

V Markgraf, UM Huber - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Two 17,000-yr-old peat bog records from low-elevation sites in Tierra del Fuego (Harberton,
54° 54′ S) and southern Patagonia (Río Rubens, 52° 4′ 48 ″S) and one c. 14,000 calyr …