Readings

Here you will find all the relevant class readings for the assignments, which are also available via Canvas.

  • Swain, Daniel L. “A shorter, sharper rainy season amplifies California wildfire risk.” Geophysical Research Letters 48.5 (2021): e2021GL092843.
  • Burrows, Kate, and Patrick L. Kinney. “Exploring the climate change, migration and conflict nexus.” International journal of environmental research and public health 13.4 (2016): 443.
  • Trenberth, Kevin E. “The impact of climate change and variability on heavy precipitation, floods, and droughts.” Encyclopedia of hydrological sciences 17 (2005).
  • Atsawawaranunt, Kamolphat, et al. “The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems.” Earth System Science Data 10.3 (2018): 1687-1713.
  • Kennett, Douglas J., et al. “Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya.” Nature communications 13.1 (2022): 1-10.
  • Dutt, Som, et al. “A long arid interlude in the Indian summer monsoon during∼ 4,350 to 3,450 cal. yr BP contemporaneous to displacement of the Indus valley civilization.” Quaternary International 482 (2018): 83-92.
  • Sinha, Ashish, et al. “Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.” Science advances 5.11 (2019): eaax6656.
  • Medina-Elizalde, Martín, et al. “High-resolution speleothem record of precipitation from the Yucatan Peninsula spanning the Maya Preclassic Period.” Global and Planetary Change 138 (2016): 93-102.
  • Chen, Siying, et al. “Climate records in ancient Chinese diaries and their application in historical climate reconstruction–a case study of Yunshan Diary.” Climate of the Past 16.5 (2020): 1873-1887.
  • Meklach, Yassin, et al. “Potential of Arabic documentary sources for reconstructing past climate in the western Mediterranean region from AD 680 to 1815.” The Holocene 31.11-12 (2021): 1662-1669.
  • Xu, Chi, et al. “Future of the human climate niche.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.21 (2020): 11350-11355.
  • Okazaki, Atsushi, and Kei Yoshimura. “Development and evaluation of a system of proxy data assimilation for paleoclimate reconstruction.” Climate of the Past 13.4 (2017): 379-393.
  • Dong, Guanghui, et al. “Climate-driven desertification and its implications for the ancient Silk Road trade.” Climate of the Past 17.3 (2021): 1395-1407.