Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2022)

Central Mediterranean rainfall varied with high northern latitude temperatures during the last deglaciation

  • Andrea Columbu,
  • Christoph Spötl,
  • Jens Fohlmeister,
  • Hsun-Ming Hu,
  • Veronica Chiarini,
  • John Hellstrom,
  • Hai Cheng,
  • Chuan-Chou Shen,
  • Jo De Waele

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00509-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Central Mediterranean rainfall variability during the last deglaciation was closely linked to temperatures at high northern latitudes through strengthened westerly winds, as suggested by speleothem proxies from southern Italy.