Cathy Whitlock

TL;DR: Charcoal analysis of lake sediments is used to reconstruct long-term variations in fire occurrence that can complement and extend reconstructions provided by dendrochronological and historical records.

TL;DR: This article synthesized sedimentary charcoal records of biomass burning since the last glacial maximum (LGM) and present global maps showing changes in fire activity for time slices during the past 21,000 years.

TL;DR: In this paper, large-scale features of circulation, temperature, and precipitation appear in the simulations from the NCAR Community Climate Model Version 1 (CCM 1), and the implications of the simulated climate for the past continental-scale distributions of three plant taxa (Picea spp., Pseudotsuga menziesii, and Artemisia tridentata) are discussed.

TL;DR: This work proposes an approach that accepts wildfire as an inevitable catalyst of change and that promotes adaptive responses by ecosystems and residential communities to more warming and wildfire.

TL;DR: A major effort by the paleoclimate research community to characterize changes through the development of well-dated, high-resolution records of the deep and intermediate ocean as well as surface climate indicates that the superposition of two modes explains much of the variability in regional and global climate during the last deglaciation.