West African Ocean sediment core links monsoons to global climate evolution
... the longest, most detailed record of West African monsoons that has ever been reconstructed, said Lea. The f...researchers documented how the strength of ancient monsoons is directly tied to two factors: the Northern Hemispheres climate shifts due to the expansion and co...One step closer to prediction: Baltimore to host international scientific meeting
...peake Bay and Maryland's tidewaters; influence of monsoons on Hong Kong's red tides; comparative analysis of nutrient cycling and phytoplankton communities in Florida and Australia; coastal applications of ocean observing systems; and environmental assessments of Kuwait's waters. Full details of the progr......de with the Omo River. During ancient wet periods, monsoons on the Ethiopian highlands sent annual floods surging down the Nile system, causing sapropels to form on the seafloor, and sent floods down the Omo, making Lake Turkana rise and depositing Kibish Formation sediments on the river's ancient delta. (Dur...Arid Australian interior linked to landscape burning by ancient humans
...uring the most recent ice age caused Earth's major monsoons to waver, all except the Australian Monsoon were "reinvigorated" to full force during the Holocene Period beginning about 12,000 years ago, he said. Although the Australian Monsoon delivers about 39 inches of rain annually to the north coast as it m...Pinatubo's rivers show the danger isn't over when volcanic eruption ends
...equator, makes it subject to torrential rains from monsoons and typhoons. "In one of the streams we're studying, nothing can live. If a big storm hits, the whole riverbed moves," Gran said. That means that more than 13 years after the eruption, some of the rivers studied have not recovered to the point of ha...