Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years

By D. Verschuren, K. Laird, B. Cumming. Nature, 2000

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Subfields: Anthropology, Archeology, Atmospheric Science

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• The use and application of freshwater midges (Chironomidae: Insecta: Diptera) in geographical research (2003, background): “The use of chironomids in reconstructing past changes in salinity has also been carried out in east Africa with good success (Verschuren, 1994; Verschuren et al., 2000a,b).”
• Volcanic and Solar Forcing of the Tropical Pacific over the Past 1000 Years (2005, background): “Verschuren et al. (2000) provide lake-level evidence in equatorial east Africa (Kenya) for peak wet conditions during the mid-seventeenth to the mideighteenth centuries, and dry conditions during the early (eleventh–thirteenth) centuries of the millennium, reminiscent of anomalies typically…”
• Large variations in Holocene solar activity: Constraints from 10Be in the Greenland Ice Core Project ice core (2006, background): “There is a growing number of paleoclimatic studies pointing toward a strong solar forcing on past climate [Bond et al., 2001; Denton and Karlén, 1973; Fleitmann et al., 2003; Hodell et al., 2001; Magny, 1993; Neff et al., 2001; Van Geel et al., 1996; Verschuren et al., 2000].”
• Long-term dynamic modeling of global population and built-up area in a spatially explicit way: HYDE 3.1 (2010, background): “According to Verschuren et al. (2000) such climate changes in Eastern Africa were ‘evidence for drought-induced famine, political unrest, and large-scale migration of indigenous peoples’ during the ad 1300–1990 period.”
• Diatoms as Indicators of Water-level Change in Freshwater Lakes (2010, positive): “Verschuren et al. (2000) also found Aulacoseira responses to lake-level induced changes in nutrient and light levels in Lake Naivasha, Kenya.”
• Sedimentation and recent history of a freshwater wetland in a semi‐arid environment: Loboi Swamp, Kenya, East Africa (2004, background): “Verschuren et al. (2000) determined overall wetter conditions at Lake Naivasha coinciding with the Little Ice Age ( 700–150 BP), punctuated, however, by three periods of severe aridity.”
• SOLAR INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE (2010, background): “…there is documentary information on 19 of 53 lake and river levels (e.g., the Nile [Fraedrich and Bantzer, 1991; de Putter et al., 1998; Eltahir and Wang, 1999; Kondrashov et al., 2005]) and catastrophic floods and droughts [Verschuren et al., 2000; Hong et al., 2001; Ruzmaikin et al., 2006].”
• TRACKING LONG‐TERM CHANGES IN CLIMATE USING ALGAL INDICATORS IN LAKE SEDIMENTS (2000, background): “…diatom-based studies focused on climatic variability over the past few millennia have revealed several interesting features of climatic change in North America and Africa that have important environmental, economic, and social implications (e.g. Laird et al. 1996b, 1998b, Verschuren et al. 2000).”
• Long-term retrospection on mangrove development using transdisciplinary approaches: A review (2008, background): “…et al., 2004; Vedel et al., 2006; A.M. Ellison, 2008; J.C. Ellison, 2008) and species compositions in general (Westgate, 1994), to climatic changes and sea-level rise (Verschuren et al., 2000; Kumaran et al., 2004a,b; Cohen et al., 2005a,b; Torrescano and Islebe, 2006; Engelhart et al., 2007).”