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List of works by Jonathan T. Overpeck

A call to climate action

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

A new mission: Mainstreaming climate adaptation in the US Department of Defense

scientific article published on 15 May 2021

A pollen study of a late Quaternary peat bog, south-central Adirondack Mountains, New York

scholarly article

A stronger role for long-term moisture change than for CO 2 in determining tropical woody vegetation change

scientific article published on 6 May 2022

A synthesis of abrupt changes in the Asian summer monsoon since the last deglaciation

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Abrupt Change in Earth's Climate System

article by Jonathan T. Overpeck & Julia E. Cole published November 2006 in Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean

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Age models for long lacustrine sediment records using multiple dating approaches – An example from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

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Arctic system on trajectory to new, seasonally ice-free state

scientific article (publication date: 2005)

CO2 and fire influence tropical ecosystem stability in response to climate change

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Carbon reserves released?

scientific article published in Nature

Climate change and the aridification of North America

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Climate change in the circum-North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation

scientific article published in Nature

Climate change. Dry times ahead

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Climate change. The hole record

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Climate change: lessons from a distant monsoon

scientific article published in January 2007

Climate data challenges in the 21st century

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Climate influences on water and sediment properties of Genovesa Crater Lake, Galápagos

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Climate science: The challenge of hot drought

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Climate with care

Climate-induced changes in forest disturbance and vegetation

scientific article published in Nature

Climatic limits on foliar growth during major droughts in the southwestern USA

scholarly article

Coherent changes of southeastern equatorial and northern African rainfall during the last deglaciation.

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Cold episode: the little ice age

scientific article published on 01 October 1989

Deglacial changes in ocean circulation from an extended radiocarbon calibration

scientific article published in Nature

Different magnitudes of projected subsurface ocean warming around Greenland and Antarctica

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Dramatic response to climate change in the Southwest: Robert Whittaker's 1963 Arizona Mountain plant transect revisited

scientific article (publication date: September 2013)

Dust and temperature influences on glaciofluvial sediment deposition in southwestern Tibet during the last millennium

scientific article published in August 2013

East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

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Ecotone shift and major droughts during the mid-late Holocene in the central Tibetan Plateau

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Eight centuries of north atlantic ocean atmosphere variability

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Evolution of 21st Century Sea-level Rise Projections

Exposure science in an age of rapidly changing climate: challenges and opportunities

scientific article published in November 2016

Extraordinary heat during the 1930s US Dust Bowl and associated large-scale conditions

scientific article published in 2015

Fire alarm?

scientific article published in Nature

Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

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Future Climate: Projected Average

Future Climate: Projected Extremes

Global Temperature Patterns in Past Centuries: An Interactive Presentation

Holocene changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate inferred from a Galápagos lake sediment record

scholarly article

Holocene variations in the Asian monsoon inferred from the geochemistry of lake sediments in central Tibet

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How warm was the last interglacial? New model-data comparisons

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Hypothesized causes of decade-to-century-scale climate variability: Climate model results

article by David Rind & Jonathan Overpeck published January 1993 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Impacts of climate variability and human colonization on the vegetation of the Galápagos Islands.

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Implications of recent sea level rise science for low-elevation areas in coastal cities of the conterminous U.S.A

Increase in the Asian southwest monsoon during the past four centuries

scientific article published on July 2002

Influence of mean climate change on climate variability from a 155-year tropical Pacific coral record

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Influence of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on the monsoon rainfall and carbon balance of the American tropics

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Late Quaternary climate change from δ18O records of multiple species of planktonic foraminifera: High-resolution records from the Anoxic Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

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Mapped plant-macrofossil and pollen records of late quaternary vegetation change in Eastern North America

scholarly article

Mapping eastern North American vegetation change of the past 18 ka: No-analogs and the future

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Numerical Analysis of Modern and Fossil Pollen Data from the Tibetan Plateau

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On past temperatures and anomalous late-20th-century warmth

article by Michael E. Mann et al published 8 July 2003 in Eos

Palaeoclimate: the rhythm of the rains

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Paleoclimatic evidence for future ice-sheet instability and rapid sea-level rise

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Paleoclimatic variations in West Africa from a record of late Pleistocene and Holocene lake level stands of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

scholarly article

Paleoclimatology and climate system dynamics

scientific article published in July 1995

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

scientific article published in Science

Pollen-inferred vegetation and environmental changes in the central Tibetan Plateau since 8200 yr BP

Potential magnitude of future vegetation change in eastern north america: comparisons with the past

scientific article published on November 1991

Projections of future sea level becoming more dire

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2009)

Rapid climate changes in the tropical Atlantic region during the last deglaciation

scientific article published in Nature

Recent warming reverses long-term arctic cooling

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Relationship‐building between climate scientists and publics as an alternative to information transfer

scientific article published in 2018

Response of Nebraska Sand Hills Natural Vegetation to Drought, Fire, Grazing, and Plant Functional Type Shifts as Simulated by the Century Model

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Responses of plant populations and communities to environmental changes of the late Quaternary

article by Stephen T. Jackson & Jonathan T. Overpeck published December 2000 in Paleobiology

Responses of plant populations and communities to environmental changes of the late Quaternary

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

Second century megadrought in the Rio Grande headwaters, Colorado: How unusual was medieval drought?

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Simulating Arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation

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Summary for Decision Makers

Synchronous radiocarbon and climate shifts during the last deglaciation

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Teleconnected ocean forcing of Western North American droughts and pluvials during the last millennium

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Temperature and Precipitation Variance in CMIP5 Simulations and Paleoclimate Records of the Last Millennium

The Continuum of Hydroclimate Variability in Western North America during the Last Millennium

article published in 2013

The Earth's Climate

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The formation of biogeochemical laminations in Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, and their usefulness as indicators of past environmental changes

scientific article published in 2007

The hole record

scientific article published in Nature

The nature of varved sedimentation in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela, and its palaeoclimatic significance

scholarly article by Konrad A. Hughen et al published 1996 in Geological Society Special Publication

The potential for palaeoclimate records from varved Arctic lake sediments: Baffin Island, Eastern Canadian Arctic

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The primacy of multidecadal to centennial variability over late-Holocene forced change of the Asian Monsoon on the southern Tibetan Plateau

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The role of ocean thermal expansion in Last Interglacial sea level rise

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The southwest Indian Monsoon over the last 18 000 years

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The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

article published in 2015

The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future

scientific article published in 2017

Three Millennia of Southwestern North American Dustiness and Future Implications

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Tidally adjusted estimates of topographic vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding for the contiguous United States

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Understanding Uncertainties in Future Colorado River Streamflow

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Unprecedented recent warming of surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean

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Vegetation and environment in Eastern North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

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Vulnerabilities and opportunities at the nexus of electricity, water and climate