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Grassland expansion as an instrument of hydrologic change in Neogene western North America
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In this article, the authors present a compilation of 16 oxygen isotope studies of pedogenic carbonate and smectite from western North America, including 4 new records, and demonstrate that changes in vegetation played a critical role in establishing the modern hydrologic regime in western North American.About:
This article is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 32 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Evapotranspiration & Grassland.read more
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Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity
Alexandre Antonelli,W.D. Kissling,S.G.A. Flantua,S.G.A. Flantua,Bermúdez,Andreas Mulch,Alexandra N. Muellner-Riehl,Holger Kreft,H.P. Linder,Catherine Badgley,Jon Fjeldså,Susanne A. Fritz,Carsten Rahbek,Carsten Rahbek,Frédéric Herman,Henry Hooghiemstra,Carina Hoorn +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate multiple datasets to assess the relationships between species richness in mountains, geology and climate at global and regional scales, and find that centres of species richness correlate with areas of high temperatures, annual rainfall and topographic relief, supporting previous studies.
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Role of the westerlies in Central Asia climate over the Cenozoic
Jeremy K. Caves,Matthew J. Winnick,Stephan A. Graham,Derek J. Sjostrom,Andreas Mulch,C. Page Chamberlain +5 more
TL;DR: The authors reconstructs the spatial distribution of oxygen isotopes in precipitation since the early Eocene, using a compilation of δ 18 O data from 2750 sedimentary carbonate samples.
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Quantifying the isotopic ‘continental effect’
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a one-dimensional idealized model of water vapor transport along a storm track to investigate the dominant variables controlling isotopic gradients in precipitation across terrestrial environments.
Cenozoic migration of topography in the North American Cordillera
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine Cenozoic surface uplift patterns of western North America based on a record of ∼3000 stable isotope proxy data and conclude that the Eocene-Oligocene development of rainout patterns along the flanks of the Cordilleran orogen is not the result of late Mesozoic crustal thickening and associated development of an Andean-style Altiplano.
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Aridification of Central Asia and uplift of the Altai and Hangay Mountains, Mongolia: Stable isotope evidence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured carbon and oxygen stable isotopes in paleosol carbonates from three basins along a 650 km long transect at the northern edge of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and in the lee of the Altai and Hangay mountains.
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The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
Eugenia Kalnay,Masao Kanamitsu,Robert Kistler,William D. Collins,D.G. Deaven,L. S. Gandin,M. Iredell,Suranjana Saha,Glenn H. White,John S. Woollen,Yuejian Zhu,Muthuvel Chelliah,Wesley Ebisuzaki,Wayne Higgins,John E. Janowiak,Kingtse C. Mo,Chester F. Ropelewski,Julian X. L. Wang,Ants Leetmaa,Richard W. Reynolds,Roy L. Jenne,Dennis Joseph +21 more
TL;DR: The NCEP/NCAR 40-yr reanalysis uses a frozen state-of-the-art global data assimilation system and a database as complete as possible, except that the horizontal resolution is T62 (about 210 km) as discussed by the authors.
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Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present
TL;DR: This work focuses primarily on the periodic and anomalous components of variability over the early portion of this era, as constrained by the latest generation of deep-sea isotope records.
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Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass/fire cycle, and global change
TL;DR: Biological invasions into wholly new regions are a consequence of a far reaching but underappreciated component of global environmental change, the human-caused breakdown of biogeographic barriers to species dispersal.
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Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation
Randal D. Koster,Paul A. Dirmeyer,Zhichang Guo,Gordon B. Bonan,Edmond Chan,Peter M. Cox,C. T. Gordon,Shinjiro Kanae,Eva Kowalczyk,David M. Lawrence,Ping Liu,Cheng-Hsuan Lu,Sergey Malyshev,Bryant J. McAvaney,Kenneth E. Mitchell,David Mocko,Taikan Oki,Keith W. Oleson,Andrew J. Pitman,Yogesh C. Sud,Christopher M. Taylor,Diana Verseghy,R. Vasic,Yongkang Xue,Tomohito J. Yamada +24 more
TL;DR: A multimodel estimation of the regions on Earth where precipitation is affected by soil moisture anomalies during Northern Hemisphere summer indicates potential benefits of this estimation may include improved seasonal rainfall forecasts.
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Isotopic Patterns in Modern Global Precipitation
TL;DR: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has been conducting a world-wide survey of hydrogen (H/'H) and oxygen (O/O) isotope composition of monthly precipitation since 1961.