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Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions

From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

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  1. Francoise Vimeux

    1. IRD, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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  2. Florence Sylvestre

    1. L'Institut de Recherché pour le, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

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  3. Myriam Khodri

    1. IRD, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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Part of the book series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER, volume 14)

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South America is a unique place where a number of past climate archives are ava- able from tropical to high latitude regions. It thus offers a unique opportunity to explore past climate variability along a latitudinal transect from the Equator to Polar regions and to study climate teleconnections. Most climate records from tropical and subtropical South America for the past 20,000 years have been interpreted as local responses to shift in the mean position and intensity of the InterTropical Conv- gence Zone due to tropical and extratropical forcings or to changes in the South American Summer Monsoon. Further South, the role of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds on global climate has been highly investigated with both paleodata and coupled climate models. However the regional response over South America during the last 20,000 years is much more variable from place to place than pre- ously thought. The factors that govern the spatial patterns of variability on millennial scale resolution are still to be understood. The question of past natural rates and ranges of climate conditions over South America is therefore of special relevance in this context since today millions of people live under climates where any changes in monsoon rainfall can lead to catastrophic consequences.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Can We Draw a Robust Picture of Last Glacial Maximum Climate Conditions in South America?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Moisture Pattern During the Last Glacial Maximum in South America

      • Florence Sylvestre
      Pages 3-27

    3. Orbital and Millennial-Scale Precipitation Changes in Brazil from Speleothem Records

      • Francisco W. Cruz, Xianfeng Wang, Augusto Auler, Mathias Vuille, Stephen J. Burns, Lawrence R. Edwards et al.
      Pages 29-60

    4. Chronologies of the Last Glacial Maximum and its Termination in the Andes (∼10–55°S) Based on Surface Exposure Dating

      • Roland Zech, Jacqueline Smith, Michael R. Kaplan
      Pages 61-87

    5. Vegetation and Fire at the Last Glacial Maximum in Tropical South America

      • Francis E. Mayle, Michael J. Burn, Mitchell Power, Dunia H. Urrego
      Pages 89-112

    6. Re-evaluation of Climate Change in Lowland Central America During the Last Glacial Maximum Using New Sediment Cores from Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala

      • Mark B. Bush, Alexander Y. Correa-metrio, David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Daniel Ariztegui et al.
      Pages 113-128

    7. Glacial to Holocene Paleoceanographic and Continental Paleoclimate Reconstructions Based on ODP Site 1233/GeoB 3313 Off Southern Chile

      • Frank Lamy, Jérome Kaiser
      Pages 129-156

  3. The High Latitudes-Tropics and Tropics-Tropics Teleconnections over the Last Deglaciation and Last Glacial Maximum

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Teleconnections into South America from the Tropics and Extratropics on Interannual and Intraseasonal Timescales

      • Alice M. Grimm, Tercio Ambrizzi
      Pages 159-191

    3. South American Climate Variability and Change: Remote and Regional Forcing Processes

      • Kerry H. Cook
      Pages 193-212

    4. Sensitivity of South American Tropical Climate to Last Glacial Maximum Boundary Conditions: Focus on Teleconnections with Tropics and Extratropics

      • Myriam Khodri, Masa Kageyama, Didier M. Roche
      Pages 213-238

    5. Similarities and Discrepancies Between Andean Ice Cores Over the Last Deglaciation: Climate Implications

      • Françoise Vimeux
      Pages 239-255

  4. Characteristics of the Holocene Climate. Focus on Global Events: Are They Widespread, Comparable and Synchroneous in South America?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Mid-Holocene Climate of Tropical South America: A Model-Data Approach

      • Pedro L. Silva Dias, Bruno Turcq, Maria Assunção F. Silva Dias, Pascale Braconnot, Tatiana Jorgetti
      Pages 259-281

    3. Millennial-Scale Ecological Changes in Tropical South America Since the Last Glacial Maximum

      • Dunia H. Urrego, Mark B. Bush, Miles R. Silman, Alexander Y. Correa-Metrio, Marie-Pierre Ledru, Francis E. Mayle et al.
      Pages 283-300

    4. The Nature and Origin of Decadal to Millennial Scale Climate Variability in the Southern Tropics of South America: The Holocene Record of Lago Umayo, Peru

      • Paul A. Baker, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Stephen J. Burns, Erik Ekdahl, Catherine A. Rigsby
      Pages 301-322

    5. Hydrological Variability in South America Below the Tropic of Capricorn (Pampas and Patagonia, Argentina) During the Last 13.0 Ka

      • Eduardo L. Piovano, Daniel Ariztegui, Francisco Córdoba, Marcela Cioccale, Florence Sylvestre
      Pages 323-351

    6. Climate Change in Southern South America During the Last Two Millennia

      • Christopher M. Moy, Patricio I. Moreno, Robert B. Dunbar, Michael R. Kaplan, Jean-Pierre Francois, Ricardo Villalba et al.
      Pages 353-393

    7. The Little Ice Age in Southern South America: Proxy and Model Based Evidence

      • Inka Meyer, Sebastian Wagner
      Pages 395-412
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Editors and Affiliations

  • IRD, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Francoise Vimeux, Myriam Khodri

  • L'Institut de Recherché pour le, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

    Florence Sylvestre

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