Pollen analysis of continuous sediment cores from two lakes in the northern Chonos Archipelago (44 S) in southern Chile shows a complete postglacial record of vegetation change. The fossil records indicate that deglaciation was complete in the northern Chonos by at least 13,600 C yr BP. Ericaceous heath and grassland persisted for more than 600 years after deglaciation under the influence of dr...

Published annual-to-decadal-resolution stalagmite dO records since AD 900 from six caves (Dongge, Furong, Heshang, Buddha, Shihua andWanxiang) in China were analyzed to detect temporal and spatial variability of the East Asian Summer Monsoon strength, which strongly affects wet/dry conditions in eastern China. The empirical mode decomposition method was used to obtain trends of the six cave rec...

In seasonally dry tropical forest regions, drought avoidance during the dry season coupled with high assimilation rates in the wet season is hypothesized to be an advantageous strategy for forest trees in regions with severe and long dry seasons. In contrast, where dry seasons are milder, drought tolerance coupled with a conservative resource-use strategy is expected to maximize carbon assimila...

The thermal environment outdoors affects human comfort and health. Mental and physical performance is reduced at high levels of air temperature being a problem especially in tropical climates. This paper deals with human comfort in the warm-humid city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The main aim was to examine the influence of urban micrometeorological conditions on people's subjective thermal perceptio...

Temperature and precipitation covary across timescales due to thermodynamic dynamic processes. We examine spatial patterns trends of daily dependence maximum minimum temperature anomalies the contiguous United States during 1950–2020. In warm season, temperatures are anomalously cool on wet days, while in days. During 1950–2020, warm-season increased 0.5°C more days than dry whereas warmed slig...

Abstract In this research, SPEI (standardized precipitation and evaporation index) was used as an alternative index to SPI to study drought in warm southern coastal regions of Iran. Drought has a multi-scale nature that can be analyzed in time scales via analysis of precipitation and temperature data. Therefore, data were colected from 105 synoptic stations in Iran in 2015; Respective stati...