The geologic history of plants and climate in India

P Sanyal, SP Adhya, R Mandal, B Roy… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
India's diverse vegetation and landscapes provide an opportunity to understand the
responses of vegetation to climate change. By examining pollen and fossil records along …

Asian summer monsoon variability, global teleconnections, and dynamics during the last 1,000 years

M Shekhar, A Sharma, AP Dimri, SK Tandon - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The Asian summer monsoon is a major regional phenomenon that drives and regulates
precipitation over the Asian subcontinent. Understanding monsoon dynamics is a …

Paleoenvironmental shifts spanning the last~ 6000 years and recent anthropogenic controls inferred from a high-altitude temperate lake: Anchar Lake, NW Himalaya

AM Lone, H Achyuthan, RA Shah… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Integrating multiproxy results (geochemistry, mineral magnetism, grain size, and C/N ratio
variability supported by 14C AMS dating), obtained from a 1.4-m sediment core retrieved …

Reconstructing climate variability during the last four millennia from trans-Himalaya (Ladakh-Karakoram, India) using multiple proxies

B Phartiyal, R Singh, D Nag, A Sharma… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this communication we reconstruct climate variability of Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya region,
on sub-century timescale spanning the last four millennia (~ 4130 to 260 cal yr 'before …

Spatial heterogeneity in the relationship between precipitation and carbon isotopic discrimination in C3 plants: inferences from a global compilation

S Basu, S Ghosh, P Sanyal - Global and planetary change, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding the causes of large variations in carbon isotopic composition of C 3 plants (δ
13 C C3) is a key challenge for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Several investigations …

Lake inventory and evolution of glacial lakes in the Nubra-Shyok basin of Karakoram Range

R Kumar, IM Bahuguna, SN Ali, R Singh - Earth Systems and Environment, 2020 - Springer
The trends of glacier lake evolution during the past few decades and their future
development are still not well understood. The aim of the present study is to investigate the …

Factors governing the pattern of glacier advances since the Last Glacial Maxima in the transitional climate zone of the Southern Zanskar Ranges, NW Himalaya

S Sharma, AD Shukla - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the relics of glacier advances and retreats in the transitional
climatic zone of the Southern Zanskar Range, NW Himalaya in response to the temporal …

Luminescence dating of late pleistocene glacial and glacio-fluvial sediments in the Central Himalaya, India

SN Ali, P Singh, P Arora, P Bisht, P Morthekai - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The late Quaternary glacier advances in the Himalayan orogen exhibit a complex interplay
of insolation induced changes in summer monsoon and winter westerlies. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of Indian summer monsoon change on ancient Indian civilizations during the Holocene

AH Laskar, A Bohra - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A large part of South Asia receives rainfall mainly during the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM)
season of the year (Jun–Sep). The socioeconomic conditions of most of the developing …

Holocene hydroclimatic variability in the zanskar valley, northwestern Himalaya, India

SN Ali, S Agrawal, A Sharma, B Phartiyal… - Quaternary …, 2020 - cambridge.org
A 1.3-m-long sediment core from the Penzi-la pass, Zanskar Valley, provides a record of
hydroclimatic conditions and abrupt climate changes over short time scales since the mid …