Melissa A. Berke

TL;DR: This model provides a mechanistic basis of the often-observed 2H-enrichment from the expected fractionation values in studies of broadleaf angiosperm leaf-wax δ2H, and allows the isolation of the precipitation dynamics of individual periods of the growing season.

TL;DR: The authors examined a ∼14,000 year record of climate variability from Lake Victoria, East Africa, the world's second largest freshwater lake by surface area, and determined variations in local hydroclimate using compound specific δD of terrestrial leaf waxes, and compared these results to a new record of temperature utilizing the TEX86 paleotemperature proxy.

TL;DR: Using molecular palaeotemperature proxies to reconstruct the mean annual temperature in mid-Pleistocene lacustrine sediment from the Valles Caldera, New Mexico, it is found that the driest conditions occurred during the warmest phases of interglacials, when the MAT was comparable to or higher than the modern MAT.

TL;DR: Scholz et al. as discussed by the authors presented a 140-kyr record of the deuterium/hydrogen isotopic ratio of terrestrial leaf waxes (δD wax) from drill cores from Lake Malawi, southeast Africa, that spans this important climatic transition.

TL;DR: A 1.3-million-year-long climate history from the Lake Malawi basin in eastern Africa displays a trend towards progressively wetter conditions superimposed on strong 100,000-year eccentricity cycles of temperature and rainfall since the mid-Pleistocene Transition around 900,000 years ago as discussed by the authors.