Vimal Mishra | Rajtantra Lilhare
Climate change may pose profound implications for hydrologic processes in Indian sub-continental river basins. Using downscaled and bias corrected future climate projections and the Soil Water Assessment...
Alvaro Salazar | Jack Katzfey | Marcus Thatcher | Jozef Syktus | Kenneth Wong | Clive McAlpine
South American biomes are increasingly affected by land use/land cover change. However, the climatic impacts of this phenomenon are still not well understood. In this paper, we model vegetation–climate...
Magnitude, frequency and timing of floods in the Tarim River basin, China: Changes, causes and implications
Qiang Zhang | Xihui Gu | Vijay P. Singh | Peng Sun | Xiaohong Chen | Dongdong Kong
The flood magnitude, frequency and timing were analyzed using daily flow data for a period of 1950–2007 from 8 stations in the Tarim River basin, a typical arid inland river basin in China. The causes...
Qiang Zhang | Xihui Gu | Vijay P. Singh | Lin Liu | Dongdong Kong
Province-wide data on flood-destroyed and flood-affected crop areas across China covering a period of 1960–2013 were analyzed in this study for investigating their relations with climate indices, such...
Long-term groundwater storage change in Victoria, Australia from satellite gravity and in situ observations
J.L. Chen | C.R. Wilson | B.D. Tapley | Bridget Scanlon | Andreas Güntner
Analysis based on satellite gravity measurements from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and land surface models indicates that groundwater storage in Victoria, Australia had been declining...
Global coastal wetland change under sea-level rise and related stresses: The DIVA Wetland Change Model
Thomas Spencer | Mark Schuerch | Robert J. Nicholls | Jochen Hinkel | Daniel Lincke | A.T. Vafeidis | Ruth Reef | Loraine McFadden | Sally Brown
The Dynamic Interactive Vulnerability Assessment Wetland Change Model (DIVA_WCM) comprises a dataset of contemporary global coastal wetland stocks (estimated at 756×103km2 (in 2011)), mapped to a one-dimensional...
J. Weil-Accardo | N. Feuillet | E. Jacques | P. Deschamps | J.-M. Saurel | K. Thirumalai | S. Demeza | D. Anglade
We present here the first study of coral microatolls in the Caribbean. An exceptional site (Belloc reef) where dozens of microatolls were growing was uplifted and exposed during the 12 January 2010...
J. Ringard | B. Dieppois | S. Rome | A. Diedhiou | T. Pellarin | A. Konaré | A. Diawara | D. Konaté | B.K. Dje | G.L. Katiellou | I. Seidou Sanda | B. Hassane | T. Vischel | G.F. Garuma | G. Mengistu | M. Camara | A. Diongue | A.T. Gaye | L. Descroix
This study aims in filling the gap in understanding the relationship between trend and extreme in diurnal and nocturnal temperatures (Tx and Tn) over the Gulf of Guinea area and the Sahel. Time-evolution...
Available online 9 February 2016
C. Sudhakar Reddy | S. Vazeed Pasha | C.S. Jha | P.G. Diwakar | V.K. Dadhwal
The aim of the present study is to prepare a nation-wide spatial database on forest cover to assess and monitor the land use changes associated with deforestation in Bangladesh. The multi-source data...
Available online 5 February 2016
Xinyu Jiang | Jian-Guo Huang | Kenneth J. Stadt | Philip G. Comeau | Han Y.H. Chen
The western Canadian mixedwood boreal forests were projected to be significantly affected by regional drought. However, drought degrees were spatially different across elevations, longitudes and latitudes,...
Available online 4 February 2016
Js Moquet | F.W. Cruz | V.F. Novello | N.M. Strikis | M. Deininger | I. Karmann | R. Ventura Santos | C. Millot | J. Apaestegui | J.-L. Guyot | A. Siffedine | M. Vuille | H. Cheng | R.L. Edwards | W. Santini
δ18O in speleothems is a powerful proxy for reconstruction of precipitation patterns in tropical and sub-tropical regions. The aim of this study is to calibrate the δ18O record of speleothems against...
Lake oxygen isotopes as recorders of North American Rocky Mountain hydroclimate: Holocene patterns and variability at multi-decadal to millennial time scales
Lesleigh Anderson | Max Berkelhammer | John A. Barron | Byron A. Steinman | Bruce P. Finney | Mark B. Abbott
Lake sediment oxygen isotope records (calcium carbonate-δ18O) in the western North American Cordillera developed during the past decade provide substantial evidence of Pacific ocean–atmosphere forcing...
Neli Jordanova | Diana Jordanova | Petar Petrov
Establishing topsoil magnetic database at a national scale provides important information for soil classification, evaluation of soil drainage, indirect estimation of the total soil carbon and initial...
Climate change and the distribution and conservation of the world's highest elevation woodlands in the South American Altiplano
G.A.E. Cuyckens | D.A. Christie | A.I. Domic | L.R. Malizia | D. Renison
Climate change is becoming an increasing threat to biodiversity. Consequently, methods for delineation, establishment and management of protected areas must consider the species' future distribution...
Application of the authigenic 10Be/9Be dating method to Late Miocene–Pliocene sequences in the northern Danube Basin (Pannonian Basin System): Confirmation of heterochronous evolution of sedimentary environments
Michal Šujan | Régis Braucher | Michal Kováč | Didier L. Bourlès | Samuel Rybár | Valéry Guillou | Natália Hudáčková
Authigenic 10Be/9Be dating method was applied to lacustrine, deltaic and alluvial sequences of the northern Danube Basin (Pannonian Basin System), to bridge the insufficiency of geochronological data...
A new Eemian record of Antarctic tephra layers retrieved from the Talos Dome ice core (Northern Victoria Land)
Biancamaria Narcisi | Jean Robert Petit | Antonio Langone | Barbara Stenni
Polar ice sheets are remarkable repositories of tephra layers. The Talos Dome ice core (72°49′S, 159°11′E), drilled at the edge of the East Antarctic Plateau, close to Late Quaternary volcanoes, offers...
Intensified tectonic deformation and uplift of the Altyn Tagh range recorded by rock magnetism and growth strata studies of the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau
Tao Zhang | Wenxia Han | Xiaomin Fang | Weilin Zhang | Chunhui Song | Maodu Yan
As the tectonical and geographical northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, the evolution of the Altyn Tagh range has attracted wide attention. Precise dating of its activities is believed essential for...
Alvaro Semedo | Pedro M.M. Soares | Daniela C.A. Lima | Rita M. Cardoso | Mariana Bernardino | Pedro M.A. Miranda
Coastal low-level jets (CLLJ) are low tropospheric coast-parallel wind features, confined to the marine atmospheric boundary layer, which lay on the east flank of the semi-permanent sub-tropical high-pressure...
The Caspian Sea–Hindu Kush Index (CasHKI): A regulatory factor for dust activity over southwest Asia
D.G. Kaskaoutis | E.E. Houssos | A. Rashki | P. Francois | M. Legrand | D. Goto | A. Bartzokas | H.D. Kambezidis | T. Takemura
This work investigates the modulation in dust activity over southwest (SW) Asia attributed to changes in the mean sea level pressure (MSLP) between the Caspian Sea (CS) and Hindu Kush (HK) during the...
Is extensive terrestrial carbon dioxide removal a ‘green’ form of geoengineering? A global modelling study
Vera Heck | Dieter Gerten | Wolfgang Lucht | Lena R. Boysen
Biological carbon sequestration through implementation of biomass plantations is currently being discussed as an option for climate engineering (CE) should mitigation efforts fail to substantially reduce...
Hai-Long Liu | Patrick Willems | An-Ming Bao | Ling Wang | Xi Chen
The vulnerability of arid areas threatens ecosystems and human existence. With climate change and increasing human activities, addressing this vulnerability has become an important concern. To support...
Recent temperature trends in the South Central Andes reconstructed from sedimentary chrysophyte stomatocysts in Laguna Escondida (1742ma.s.l., 38°28S, Chile)
R. De Jong | T. Schneider | I. Hernández–Almeida | M. Grosjean
In this study we present a quantitative, high resolution reconstruction of past austral winter length in the Chilean Andes at 38°S from AD 1920 to 2009. For Laguna Escondida, a nearly pristine lake...
Closed-form analytical solutions for assessing the consequences of sea-level rise on unconfined sloping island aquifers
Available online 29 January 2016
Closed-form analytical solutions for assessing the consequences of sea-level rise on fresh groundwater oceanic island lenses are provided for the cases of both strip and circular islands. Solutions...
Available online 15 January 2016
Dominic A. Hodgson | Pippa L. Whitehouse | Gijs De Cort | Sonja Berg | Elie Verleyen | Ines Tavernier | Stephen J. Roberts | Wim Vyverman | Koen Sabbe | Philip O’Brien
Prydz Bay is one of the largest embayments on the East Antarctic coast and it is the discharge point for approximately 16 % of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Geological constraints on the regional ice...
Satellite-derived changes in the permafrost landscape of central Yakutia, 2000–2011: Wetting, drying, and fires
Available online 14 January 2016
Julia Boike | Thomas Grau | Birgit Heim | Frank Günther | Moritz Langer | Sina Muster | Isabelle Gouttevin | Stephan Lange
The focus of this research has been on detecting changes in lake areas, vegetation, land surface temperatures, and the area covered by snow, using data from remote sensing. The study area covers the...
The ELSA-Flood-Stack: A reconstruction from the laminated sediments of Eifel maar structures during the last 60000years
Available online 4 January 2016
H. Brunck | F. Sirocko | J. Albert
This study reconstructs the main flood phases in central Europe from event layers in sediment cores from Holocene Eifel maar lakes and Pleistocene dry maar structures. These reconstructions are combined...
Hydrological response to future climate changes for the major upstream river basins in the Tibetan Plateau
F. Su | L. Zhang | T. Ou | D. Chen | T. Yao | K. Tong | Y. Qi
The impacts of future climate change on water balance for the headwater basins of six major rivers in the Tibetan Plateau are assessed using the well-established VIC-glacier land surface hydrological...
Dinoflagellate cyst population evolution throughout past interglacials: Key features along the Iberian margin and insights from the new IODP Site U1385 (Exp 339)
Frédérique Eynaud | Laurent Londeix | Aurélie Penaud | Maria-Fernanda Sanchez-Goni | Dulce Oliveira | Stéphanie Desprat | Jean-Louis Turon
IODP 339 Site U1385 (“Shackleton site”, e.g. Hodell et al., 2013a), from the SW Iberian margin, offers the opportunity to study marine microfossil population dynamics by comparing several past interglacials...
Contribution from frozen soil meltwater to runoff in an in-land river basin under water scarcity by isotopic tracing in northwestern China
Li Zongxing | Feng Qi | Q.J. Wang | Yong Song | Cheng Aifang | Li Jianguo
Cryosphere meltwater has been recognized as an important source of local water resources. However, there are few assessments on the contribution from frozen soil meltwater. In this study, we quantify...
Microbialites in the shallow-water marine environments of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland) in the aftermath of the Frasnian–Famennian biotic crisis
Michał Rakociński | Grzegorz Racki
Microbial carbonates, consisting of abundant girvanellid oncoids, are described from cephalopod-crinoid and crinoid-brachiopod coquinas (rudstones) occurring in the lowermost Famennian of the Holy Cross...
Review: Potential catastrophic reduction of sea ice in the western Arctic Ocean: Its impact on biogeochemical cycles and marine ecosystems
The reduction of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, which has progressed more rapidly than previously predicted, has the potential to cause multiple environmental stresses, including warming, acidification,...
Climate changes in south western Iberia and Mediterranean Outflow variations during two contrasting cycles of the last 1Myrs: MIS 31–MIS 30 and MIS 12–MIS 11
M.F. Sánchez Goñi | E. Llave | D. Oliveira | F. Naughton | S. Desprat | E. Ducassou | D.A. Hodell | F.J. Hernández-Molina
Grain size analysis and physical properties of Sites U1388, U1389 and U1390 collected in the Contourite Depositional System of the Gulf of Cádiz during the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition...
Marco Donnini | Francesco Frondini | Jean-Luc Probst | Anne Probst | Carlo Cardellini | Ivan Marchesini | Fausto Guzzetti
To determine the CO2 consumption due to chemical weathering in the Alps, water samples from the 32 main Alpine rivers were collected and analysed in two periods, spring 2011 and winter 2011/2012. Most...
Available online 31 December 2015
Michael W. Förster | Frank Sirocko
Tephra layers of individual volcanic eruptions are traced in several cores from Eifel maar lakes, drilled between 1998 and 2014 by the Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive (ELSA). All sediment cores are...
Available online 11 December 2015
Julie A. Hoggarth | Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach | Brendan J. Culleton | Claire E. Ebert | Marilyn A. Masson | Douglas J. Kennett
Chichén Itzá dominated the political landscape of the northern Yucatán during the Terminal Classic Period (AD 800–1000). Chronological details of the rise and fall of this important polity are obscure...
Late Holocene anthropogenic and climatic influences on the regional vegetation of Mexico's Cuenca Oriental
Available online 8 December 2015
Tripti Bhattacharya | Roger Byrne
Scholars continue to debate the relative magnitude of pre- and post-Conquest anthropogenic landscape transformation in many regions of Mesoamerica. These debates have important implications for our...
J.S. Collier | F. Oggioni | S. Gupta | D. García-Moreno | A. Trentesaux | M. De Batist
Recognising ice-age catastrophic megafloods is important because they had significant impact on large-scale drainage evolution and patterns of water and sediment movement to the oceans, and likely induced...
Rodrigo da Costa Portilho-Ramos | Fabricio Ferreira | Leandro Calado | Fabrizio Frontalini | Mauro Bevilacqua de Toledo
Re-estimation of glacier mass loss in Greenland from GRACE with correction of land–ocean leakage effects
Shuanggen Jin | Fang Zou
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites can estimate the high-precision time-varying gravity field and the changes of Earth's surface mass, which have been widely used in water...
Severe cooling episodes at the onset of deglaciations on the Southwestern Iberian margin from MIS 21 to 13 (IODP site U1385)
Gloria M. Martin-Garcia | Montserrat Alonso-Garcia | Francisco J. Sierro | David A. Hodell | José A. Flores
Here we reconstruct past sea surface water conditions on the SW Iberian Margin by analyzing planktonic foraminifer assemblages from IODP Site U1385 sediments (37°34.285′N, 10°7.562′W; 2585m depth)....
Analysis of channel evolution characteristics in the Hobq Desert reach of the Yellow River (1962–2000)
Baotian Pan | Qingyu Guan | Zibian Liu | Hongshan Gao
A series of problems, resulting from sediment deposition and channel silting, have occurred on the Hetao Plain as a result of changes to the Hobq Desert reach of the Yellow River. Therefore, improved...
Julienne Stroeve | Dirk Notz
We discuss the current understanding of past and future sea-ice evolution as inferred from combining model simulations and observations. In such combined analysis, the models allow us to enhance our...
B. Balestra | J.-A. Flores | D.A. Hodell | F.J. Hernández-Molina | D.A.V. Stow
During Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 339, Site U1385 (37°34′N, 10°7′W, 2578m below sea level) was drilled in the lower slope of the Portuguese margin, to provide a marine reference...
Glacier changes in the Ravi basin, North-Western Himalaya (India) during the last four decades (1971–2010/13)
Pritam Chand | Milap Chand Sharma
A glacier inventory of the Ravi basin, north-western Himalaya has been generated for the year 2002 using Landsat ETM+ and ASTER Global DEM (GDEM V2) as the baseline data for the change analysis. The...
Bedrock structures controlling the spatial occurrence and geometry of 1.8Ga younger glacifluvial deposits — Example from First Salpausselkä, southern Finland
Pietari Skyttä | Jussi Kinnunen | Jukka-Pekka Palmu | Kirsti Korkka-Niemi
The glacifluvial deposits within formerly glaciated areas of southern Finland comprise the predominance of well-sorted subglacial and ice marginal sediments. The deposits are less than 100m thick and...
Coupled ocean–land millennial-scale changes 1.26millionyears ago, recorded at Site U1385 off Portugal
P.C. Tzedakis | V. Margari | D.A. Hodell
While a growing body of evidence indicates that North Atlantic millennial-scale climate variability extends to the Early Pleistocene, its impact on terrestrial ecosystems has not been established. Here...
Planktic foraminiferal responses to orbital scale oceanographic changes off the western Iberian margin over the last 900kyr: Results from IODP site U1391
A.D. Singh | K. Verma | S. Jaiswal | M. Alonso-Garcia | B. Li | F. Abrantes
This paper presents planktic foraminiferal assemblage records of the last 900kyr from the SW Iberian margin (IODP Site U1391). The faunal records show the history of surface oceanographic changes on...
Astronomical tuning for the upper Messinian Spanish Atlantic margin: Disentangling basin evolution, climate cyclicity and MOW
B.C.J. van den Berg | F.J. Sierro | F.J. Hilgen | R. Flecker | J.C. Larrasoaña | W. Krijgsman | J.A. Flores | M.P. Mata | E. Bellido Martín | J. Civis | J.A. González-Delgado
We present a new high-resolution cyclostratigraphic age model for the Messinian sediments of the Montemayor-1 core. This core was drilled in the Guadalquivir Basin in southern Spain, which formed part...
Zooming into the Mediterranean outflow fossil moat during the 1.2–1.8millionyears period (Early-Pleistocene) — An approach by radiogenic and stable isotopes
Susana M. Lebreiro | Laura Antón | M. Isabel Reguera | Marta Fernández | Estefanía Conde | Ana I. Barrado | Abel Yllera
The fossil Alvarez Cabral erosive Moat contains hemipelagite, contourite and turbidite facies where oceanography changes in the Mediterranean outflow are archived over the 1.2–1.8Myr time period. Here...