Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Tracking westerly wind directions over Europe since the middle Holocene

  • Hsun-Ming Hu,
  • Valerie Trouet,
  • Christoph Spötl,
  • Hsien-Chen Tsai,
  • Wei-Yi Chien,
  • Wen-Hui Sung,
  • Véronique Michel,
  • Jin-Yi Yu,
  • Patricia Valensi,
  • Xiuyang Jiang,
  • Fucai Duan,
  • Yongjin Wang,
  • Horng-Sheng Mii,
  • Yu-Min Chou,
  • Mahjoor Ahmad Lone,
  • Chung-Che Wu,
  • Elisabetta Starnini,
  • Marta Zunino,
  • Takaaki K. Watanabe,
  • Tsuyoshi Watanabe,
  • Huang-Hsiung Hsu,
  • G.W.K. Moore,
  • Giovanni Zanchetta,
  • Carlos Pérez-Mejías,
  • Shih-Yu Lee,
  • Chuan-Chou Shen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34952-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Combined with other westerly-sensitive records, a new stalagmite hydroclimate record from northern Italy reveals changing westerly wind directions over the past 6500 years that correspond to a migration of the North Atlantic centres of action.