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50-year seasonal variability in East African droughts and floods recorded in central Afar lake sediments (Ethiopia) and their connections with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation
Understanding past and present hydrosystem feedbacks to global ocean–atmospheric interactions represents one of the main challenges to preventing droughts, extreme …
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Wet season rainfall characteristics and temporal changes for Cape Town, South Africa, 1841–2018
Abstract. Wet seasons may be characterized by the frequency of wet–dry days, duration of wet–dry spells and season length. These …
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A 334-year coral record of surface temperature and salinity variability in the greater Agulhas Current region
Abstract. The Agulhas Current (AC) off the southern tip of Africa is one of the strongest western boundary currents and …
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“Everything is scorched by the burning sun”: missionary perspectives and experiences of 19th- and early 20th-century droughts in semi-arid central Namibia
Abstract. Limited research has focussed on historical droughts during the pre-instrumental weather-recording period in semi-arid to arid human-inhabited environments. Here …
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Hydro-climatic variability in the southwestern Indian Ocean between 6000 and 3000 years ago
Abstract. The “4.2 ka event” is frequently described as a major global climate anomaly between 4.2 and 3.9 ka, which …
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Extreme flood event reconstruction spanning the last century in the El Bibane Lagoon (southeastern Tunisia): a multi-proxy approach
Abstract. Climate models project that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will increase the frequency and the severity of some extreme …
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Hydrological variations of the intermediate water masses of the western Mediterranean Sea during the past 20 ka inferred from neodymium isotopic composition in foraminifera and cold-water corals
Abstract. We present the neodymium isotopic composition (εNd) of mixed planktonic foraminifera species from a sediment core collected at 622 …