updated: January 31, 20082008
Yasuhara, M. Cronin, T.M., deMenocal, P.B., Okahashi, H., Linsley, B.K. Abrupt climate change and collapse of deep-sea ecosystems. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences., 105, 5, pp. 1556-1560 (PDF).
2007
Feakins, S., Eglinton, T., deMenocal, P.B. A comparison of biomarker records of northeast African vegeation from lacustrine and marine sediments. Organic Geochemistry, 38, pp. 1607-1624, 2007. (PDF)
Hendy, E.J., Gagan, M.K., Lough, J.M., McCoulloch, M., deMenocal, P.B. The impact of skeletal dissolution and secondary aragonite on trace element and isotopic proxies in Porites corals. Paleoceanography, 22, PA4101, doi:10.1029/2007PA001462, 2007. (PDF)
Feakins, S., Brown, F.H., and deMenocal, P.B. Plio-Pleistocene Microtephra in DSDP Site 231, Gulf of Aden. J. African Earth Sciences, 48, 341-352, 2007. (PDF)
Liu, Z., Yi Wang, Robert Gallimore, Francoise Gasse, Thomas Johnson, Peter deMenocal, Jess Adkins, Michael Notaro, I. Colin Prentice, John Kutzbach, Robert Jacob, Pat Behling, Lihua Wang, Everest Ong. Simulating the Transient Evolution and Abrupt Change of Northern Africa Atmosphere-Ocean-Terrestrial Ecosystem in the Holocene. Quat. Sci. Rev., 26, 1818-1837, 2007. (PDF)
Farmer, E. C., A. Kaplan, P. B. de Menocal, and J. Lynch-Stieglitz (2007), Corroborating ecological depth preferences of planktonic foraminifera in the tropical Atlantic with the stable oxygen isotope ratios of core top specimens, Paleoceanography, 22, PA3205, doi:10.1029/2006PA001361. (PDF)
2006
Koutavas, A., deMenocal, P.B., Olive, G.C., Lynch-Steiglitz, J. Mid-Holocene ENSO attenuation and background La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Geology, 34 (12), pp. 993-996, 2006. (PDF)
Adkins, J.F., deMenocal, P.B., Eschel, G. The "African Humid Period" and the record of marine upwelling from excess 230Th in Ocean Drilling Program Hole 658C. Paleoceanography, 21, pp. 1-14. 10.1029/2005PA001200, 2006 (PDF)
Linsley, B.K., Kaplan, A., Gouriou, Y., Salinger, J., deMenocal, P.B., Wellington, G.M., Howe, S.S. Tracking the extent of the South Pacific Convergence Zone since 1619 AD. Geochem., Geophys., and Geosystems, 7(4). Q05003, doi:10.1029/2005GC001115, 2006. (PDF)
Fedorov, A, Dekens, P., McCarthy, M, Ravelo, A., deMenocal, P., Barreiro, M., Pacanowski, R., Philander, G. The Pliocene Paradox: Mechanisms for a permanent El Nino. Science, 312, pp. 1485-1489, 2006. (PDF)
2005
deMenocal, P.B. and Cook, E.P., 2005. Agents of Collapse: Megadroughts in the American West (Book review: Collapse, by Jared Diamond). Current Anthropology, v46, S5, pp. S91-100. (PDF).
Feakins, S.J., deMenocal, P.B., Eglinton, T.I., 2005. Biomarker records of Late Neogene changes in northeast African vegetation. Geology, v. 33; no. 12; p. 977–980; doi: 10.1130/G21814.1 (PDF).
Farmer, E.C., deMenocal, P.B., Marchitto, T.M., 2005. Holocene and deglacial ocean temperature variability in the Benguela upwelling region: Implications for low-latitude atmospheric circulation. Paleocenaography, 20, doi:10.1029/2004PA001049, (PDF).
deMenocal, P.B., 2005. After Tomorrow – Climate Science and Political Reality. Orion Magazine (online version link).
2004
Jansen, E., deMenocal, P., Grousset, F. Holocene climate variability – a marine perspective. Quat. Sci. Rev, 23, pp.2061-2061 (PDF).
Rosenthal, Y., et al.. Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research. Geochem., Geophys., and Geosystems, 5 (4). doi:10.1029/2003GC000650 (PDF)
deMenocal, P.B. African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene-Pleistocene. Earth and Plant. Sci. Lett, Frontiers, 6976, 1-22, 2004 (PDF).
2003
Marchitto, T. M. and P. B. deMenocal. Late Holocene variability of upper North Atlantic Deep Water temperature and salinity. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4(12): 1100, doi 10.1029/2003GC000598, 2003 (PDF).
Zabel, M, Wagner, T., deMenocal, P.B. Terrigenous signals in sediments of the low-latitude Atlantic - inidactions to Environmental variations during the Late Quaternary: Part II: Lithogenic Matter. In "The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Mass Budget and Current Systems", Wefer, G., Mulitza, S. & Ratmeyer, V. (eds), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2003. (PDF).
Elliot, M. deMenocal, P.B. Linsley, B. and Howe, S.. Environmental controls on the stable isotopic composition of Mercenaria mercenaria: potetial application to paleoenvironmental studies. Geochem., Geophys., and Geosystems, 4 (7), 2003. (PDF).
2002
Cullen, H.M., Kaplan, A., Arko, R., and deMenocal, P.B. Impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Middle Eastern climate and Streamflow. Climate Change, 55, 315-338, 2002 (PDF).
2001
Rind, D., P. deMenocal, G.L. Russell, S. Sheth, D. Collins, G.A. Schmidt, and J. Teller, Effects of Glacial Meltwater in the GISS Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model: Part I: North Atlantic Deep Water Response, J. Geophys. Res., 2001 (PDF).
D. Rind, G. Russell, G. Schmidt, S. Sheth, D. Collins, P. deMenocal and J. Teller. Effects of glacial meltwater in the GISS Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model: Part II: A bi-polar seesaw in Atlantic Deep Water production.. J. Geophys. Res. 106, 27355-27366. (PDF).
deMenocal, P.B., Cultural responses to climate change during the late Holocene, Science, 292, 667-673, 2001 (PDF).
2000
deMenocal, P.B., J. Ortiz, T. Guilderson, and M. Sarnthein, Coherent High- and Low-Latitude Climate Variability During the Holocene Warm Period, Science, 288 (2000), 2198-2202, 2000 (PDF).
deMenocal, P.B., and L. Baker, Benthic stable isotope data from Sites 1014 and 1020 (0.6-1.2 Ma)., in Proc. ODP, Sci. Res., edited by M. Lyle, I. Koizumi, C. Richter, and T.C. Moore, pp. 145-146, ODP, College Station, TX, 2000. (PDF)
Cullen, H.M., P.B. deMenocal, S. Hemming, G. Hemming, F.H. Brown, T. Guilderson, and F. Sirocko, Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian Empire: Evidence from the deep-sea, Geology, 28 (4), 379-382, 2000. (PDF).
Cullen, H.M. and deMenocal, P.B. North Atlantic Influence on Turkish Climate and Water Supply, Int. J. Climatology, 20(8), pgs. 853-863, 2000. (PDF).
deMenocal, P.B, Ortiz, J., Guilderson, T., Adkins, J., Sarnthein, M., Baker, L., and Yarusinski, M. Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period: Rapid climate response to gradual insolation forcing. Quat. Sci. Rev, 19, p. 347-361, 2000. (PDF).
1999
deMenocal, P.B. The answer was blowin' in the wind - Deep-sea drilling and the link between climate change and human evolution (Chap. 10). In Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Twelve Perspectives on the First Fifty Years (1949-1999), L. Lippsett, (ed.), Columbia Univ. Press (New York), p. 121-130, 1999.
deMenocal, P.B. and Brown, F.H. Pliocene tephra correlations between East African hominid localities, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea. In Climatic and Environmental Change in the Neogene of Europe, Cambridge University Press, p. 23-52, 1999. (PDF).
Catubig, N.R., Archer, D.E., Francois, R., deMenocal, P., Howard, W., Yu, E.-F. Global deep-sea burial rate of calcium carbonate during the Last Glacial Maximum, Paleoceanography, 13 (3), 298-310, 1998.
Partridge, T., P.B. deMenocal, S. Lorentz, M. Paiker, and J. Vogel, Orbital forcing of climate over South Africa: A 200,000-year rainfall record from the Pretoria Saltpan, Quat. Sci. Rev., 16 (10), 1125-1133, 1998.
deMenocal, P.B., Archer, D., Leth, P. Pleistocene variations in Atlantic deep circulation and calcite burial: A combined data-model approach. Proc. ODP, Scientific Results, 154,, 285-297, 1997. (PDF)
Bond, G., W. Showers, M. Cheseby, R. Lotti, P. deMenocal, P. Priori, H. Cullen, I. Hadjes, and E. Bonani, A pervasive, millennial-scale cycle in the North Atlantic Holocene and Late Glacial climates, Science, 278: 1257-1266, 1997.
deMenocal, P.B. and Bond, G.C. Holocene climate less stable than previously thought. EOS, 78 (41): 447-450, 1997.
deMenocal, P.B., African Climate and Human Evolution: The ODP Link, JOI/USSAC Newsletter, 10 (1), 1-3, 1997.
deMenocal, P.B. and Rind, D. Sensitivity of subtropical African and Asian climate to prescribed boundary condition changes: Model implications for the Plio-Pleistocene evolution of low-latitude climate. In Johnson, T. and Odada, E., The Limnology, Climatology, and Paleoclimatology of West African Lakes: New York (Gordon and Breach), 57-77, 1996.
Partridge, T. C., Wood, B., and deMenocal, P. B., 1995, The influence of global climatic change and regional uplift on large mammalian evolution on East and southern Africa, in Vrba, E., Denton, G., Partridge, T. C., and Burckle, L., eds., Paleoclimate and Evolution With Emphasis of Human Origins: New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 330-355, 1995.
deMenocal, P. B., and Bloemendal, J., 1995, Plio-Pleistocene subtropical African climate variability and the paleoenvironment of hominid evolution: A combined data-model approach, in Vrba, E., Denton, G., Burckle, L., and Partridge, T., eds., Paleoclimate and Evolution With Emphasis on Human Origins: New Haven, Yale University Press, p. 262-288, 1995.
Partridge, T. C., Bond, G. C., Hartnandy, C. J. H., deMenocal, P. B., and Ruddiman, W. F., 1995, Climatic effects of late Neogene tectonism and volcanism, in Vrba, E., Denton, G., Burckle, L., and Partridge, T., eds., Paleoclimate and Evolution With Emphasis on Human Origins: New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, p. 8-23, 1995.
deMenocal, P.B. Plio-Pleistocene African climate. Science, 270, 53-59, 1995 (PDF).
Hagelberg, T.K., Bond, G., and deMenocal, P.B. Milankovitch forcing of millennial scale climatic variability during the Pleistocene. Paleoceanography, 9, 4, 545-558, 1994.
deMenocal, P., Ruddiman, W., and Pokras, E., Influences of high- and low-latitude processes on African terrestrial climate: Pleistocene eolian records from equatorial Atlantic Ocean Drilling Program site 663. Paleoceanography, 8 (2); 209-242, 1993.
deMenocal, P., and Rind, D. Sensitivity of Asian and African climate to variations in seasonal insolation, glacial ice cover, sea-surface termperature, and Asian orography. J. Geophys. Res., 98 (D4); 7265-7287, 1993.
Bloemendal, J., King, J., A. Hunt, deMenocal, P., Hayashida, A. Origin of the sedimentary magnetic record at Ocean Drilling Program Sites on the Owen Ridge, western Arabian Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 98 (B3); 4199-4219, 1993.
deMenocal, P.B. Wireline logging on the North Pacific transect. JOIDES Journal, 19 (1); 29, 1993.
deMenocal, P. Loess, in Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, S. Schneider (editor), Simon and Schuster, 1993.
deMenocal, P., Oppo, D., Fairbanks, R., and Prell, W. A 1.2 Myr record of mid-depth d13C variability in the North Atlantic. Paleoceanography, 7: 229-250, 1992.
deMenocal, P., Bristow, J., and Stein, R. Paleoclimatic applications of downhole logs: Plio-Pleistocene results from Hole 798B, Sea of Japan. In: Piscotto, K.A., Ingle, J.C. Jr., von Breymann, M.T., Barron, J., et al. Proceed. ODP, Scientific Results, 127/128, Pt. 1: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program); 393-408, 1992.
Dunbar, R., deMenocal, P.B., and Burkle, L. Late Pliocene-Quaternary biosiliceous deposition at Site 798, Japan Sea. In: Piscotto, K.A., Ingle, J.C. Jr., von Breymann, M.T., Barron, J., et al. Proceed. ODP, Scientific Results, 127/128, Pt. 1: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program); 439-456, 1992.
Föllmi, K., et al. Dark-light rhythms in the sediments of the Japan Sea: Preliminary results from Site 798 with additional results from Sites 797 and 799. In: Piscotto, K.A., Ingle, J.C. Jr., von Breymann, M.T., Barron, J., et al. Proceed. ODP, Scientific Results, 127/128, Pt. 1: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program); 559-576, 1992.
Bristow, J.F. and deMenocal, P.B. Evaluation of geochemical log quality in ODP Hole 798B. In: Piscotto, K.A., Ingle, J.C. Jr., von Breymann, M.T., Barron, J., et al. Proceed. ODP, Scientific Results 127/128, Pt. 2: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program); 1021-1036, 1992.
Bristow, J.F., Broglia, C., deMenocal, P.B, and Pratson, E.L. Data Report: Geochemical logging results from the Sea of Japan Sites 798 and 799. In: Piscotto, K.A., Ingle, J.C. Jr., von Breymann, M.T., Barron, J., et al. Proceed. ODP, Scientific Results, 127/128, Pt. 2: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program); 1395-1410, 1992.
Fagel, N., Debrabant, P., deMenocal, P., Demoulin, B. Utilasation des mineraux agileux pour la reconstitution des variations paléoclimatiques a court term en Mer d'Arabie. Oceanologica Acta, 15(2); 125-136, 1992.
deMenocal, P., Bloemendal, J. and King, J. Rock-magnetic record of monsoonal dust deposition to the Arabian Sea: Evidence for a shift in the mode of deposition at 2.4 Ma. Proceed. ODP, Scientific Results, 117, 389-407, 1991.
deMenocal, P., Ruddiman, W., and Kent, D.V. Depth of post-depositional remanence acquisition: A case study of the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal and oxygen isotopic Stage 19.1. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 99;1-13 1990.(PDF)
deMenocal, P. and Bloemendal, J. High- and low-latitude climate interactions: Evidence for enhanced aridity of Asian monsoon dust source areas after 2.4 Myr from ODP Leg 117 magnetic susceptibility data. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Pacific Climate Workshop, 18 pp., Monteray, CA, 1990.
Ingle, J., Suyehiro, K. and ODP Leg 127 and 128 Scientific Parties. Evolution of the Japan Sea. Nature, 346:18-20, 1990.
Bloemendal, J. and deMenocal, P. Evidence for a change in the periodicity of tropical climate cycles at 2.4 Myr from whole-core magnetic susceptibility measurements. Nature, 342:897-899, 1989.Prell, W., Niitsuma, N., and Leg 117 Scientific Party. Milankovitch and Monsoons. Nature, 331:663-664, 1988.
Prell, W., Niitsuma, N., and Leg 117 Scientific Party. Leg 117 finds mountains, monsoons. Geotimes, March, pp. 13-16, 1988.
deMenocal, P.B., Laine, E.P., and Ciesielski, P., A magnetic signature of bottom-current erosion. Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, 51;326-358, 1988.
