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  • An abrupt wind shift in western Europe at the onset of the Younger Dryas cold period

    • Achim Brauer, Gerald H. Haug, Peter Dulski, Daniel M. Sigman, Jörg F. W. Negendank
      Original article citation: Nature Geosci 1," 520 - 523, (2008).

    • Categories: Paleoclimate
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 08/08/2008 08:53AM GMT
      
      This paper by Achim Brauer et al. uses German lake sediment cores to peg the onset of the Younger Dryas to a single year - 12,679 years ago, to be exact. I blogged about this one - and a recent Science paper that reaches a similar conclusion from Greenland ice cores - on Climate Feedback: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/08/the_year_the_climate_changed.html
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  • Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years

    • Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Xinggong Kong, Xiaohua Shao, Shitao Chen, Jiangyin Wu, Xiouyang Jiang, Xianfeng Wang, Zhisheng An
      Original article citation: Nature 451," 1090 - 1093, (2008).

    • Categories: Paleoclimate
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 02/28/2008 03:54PM GMT
      
      This week's Nature has a high-resolution, absolute-dated record of the strength of the East Asian monsoon, authored by Wang et al. The record, taken from cave deposits, stretches back for 224,000 years, and may serve as a benchmark for correlating other climate records. Jonathan Overpeck and Julia Cole look at this article in a News & Views piece for Nature, which we've reprinted here: http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0803/full/4511061a.html
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  • Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African monsoon

    • Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Jonathan D. Woodruff
      Original article citation: Nature 447," (2007).

    • Categories: Atmospheric Sciences, Paleoclimate, and Extreme Events
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:19PM GMT
      
      In this recent Nature paper, Jeffrey Donnelly and Jonathan Woodruff of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution looked at the relationship between the number of hurricanes over the past 5,000 years and changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation and the West African monsoon. They analyzed sediment from a Caribbean lagoon that contains preserved records of past hurricane landfalls and found that variations in El Niño and the African jet stream significantly influenced hurricane activity during this period. This suggests that climate change is not the only factor determining hurricane variability.
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