Search Results - "Luckman, Brian H."
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Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years
Published in Nature geoscience (01-10-2015)“…Model and proxy-based estimates of climate cooling from volcanic eruptions have disagreed. Refined simulations and tree-ring time series converge on a total of…”
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Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records
Published in Nature geoscience (01-02-2017)“…The eruption of Samalas in Indonesia in 1257 ranks among the largest sulfur-rich eruptions of the Common Era with sulfur deposition in ice cores reaching twice…”
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The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-07-2011)“…In western North America, snowpack has declined in recent decades, and further losses are projected through the 21st century. Here, we evaluate the uniqueness…”
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Long-term reliability of the Athabasca River (Alberta, Canada) as the water source for oil sands mining
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-10-2015)“…Exploitation of the Alberta oil sands, the world’s third-largest crude oil reserve, requires fresh water from the Athabasca River, an allocation of 4.4% of the…”
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Spatio‐temporal rainfall patterns in Southern South America
Published in International journal of climatology (30-11-2009)“…The dominant spatial and temporal patterns of a network of 23 homogenous instrumental rainfall records of Southern South America were analysed and used to…”
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Unusual Southern Hemisphere tree growth patterns induced by changes in the Southern Annular Mode
Published in Nature geoscience (01-11-2012)“…Recent changes in the Southern Annular Mode are associated with warmer, drier conditions in the Southern Hemisphere. An analysis of tree-ring records there…”
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Annual push moraines as climate proxy
Published in Geophysical research letters (01-10-2009)“…We reconstruct the terminus position of a mountain glacier in British Columbia, Canada from annual push moraines formed between 1959 and 2007. Our…”
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Editorial: Observed and Predicted Changes in Climate in the Andes Cordillera
Published in Frontiers in environmental science (25-09-2020)“…Over the past decades various ecological, glaciological, and hydrological assessments have identified noticeable changes in vegetation dynamics, glacier cover…”
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Western Canadian glaciers advance in concert with climate change circa 4.2 ka
Published in Geophysical research letters (01-04-2008)“…Disparate climate proxies from the Northern Hemisphere record a climate event at 4.2–3.8 ka. Here we show that glaciers throughout the mountain ranges of…”
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Evaluating the temperature sensitivity of radial growth patterns from whitebark pine in the western Canadian Cordillera
Published in Dendrochronologia (Verona) (01-01-2013)“…We present a network of thirteen annual ring-width chronologies from high elevation whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) sites in the western Canadian…”
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Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-07-2020)“…South American (SA) societies are highly vulnerable to droughts and pluvials, but lack of long-term climate observations severely limits our understanding of…”
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Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in western Canada
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-10-2009)“…We summarize evidence of the latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Canadian Cordillera. Our review focuses primarily on studies completed…”
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Tree-ring based reconstructions of precipitation for the southern Canadian Cordillera
Published in Climatic change (01-07-2004)“…This paper reconstructs precipitation variability in the southern Canadian Cordillera over the past 3-400 years using dendroclimatological techniques…”
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Blue Intensity for dendroclimatology: The BC blues: A case study from British Columbia, Canada
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-11-2014)“…Maximum latewood density (MXD) is a strong proxy of summer temperatures. Despite this, there is a paucity of long MXD chronologies in the Northern Hemisphere,…”
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Snowpack Variations in the Central Andes of Argentina and Chile, 1951–2005: Large-Scale Atmospheric Influences and Implications for Water Resources in the Region
Published in Journal of climate (15-12-2006)“…The snowpack in the central Andes (30°–37°S) is the primary source for streamflow in central Chile and central-western Argentina, but few published studies are…”
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Reconstructing the annual mass balance of the Echaurren Norte glacier (Central Andes, 33.5° S) using local and regional hydroclimatic data
Published in The cryosphere (26-04-2016)“…Despite the great number and variety of glaciers in southern South America, in situ glacier mass-balance records are extremely scarce and glacier–climate…”
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Nomenclature and resolution in Holocene glacial chronologies
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-10-2009)“…Most Quaternary research in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century focused on Pleistocene glaciation. Given the dramatic shifts in climate…”
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20th-century glacier recession and regional hydroclimatic changes in northwestern Patagonia
Published in Global and planetary change (2008)“…This paper documents the occurrence of significant glacier and hydroclimatic changes in northwestern Patagonia during the past century. Drastic, widespread…”
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Holocene History of Río Tranquilo Glacier, Monte San Lorenzo (47°S), Central Patagonia
Published in Frontiers in earth science (Lausanne) (22-12-2021)“…The causes underlying Holocene glacier fluctuations remain elusive, despite decades of research efforts. Cosmogenic nuclide dating has allowed systematic study…”
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Winter-spring precipitation reconstructions from tree rings for northeast Mexico
Published in Climatic change (01-07-2007)“…The understanding of historic hydroclimatic variability is basic for planning proper management of limited water resources in northeastern Mexico. The…”
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