A climate model running for thousands of simulated years has produced severe, decades-long droughts over the Maya lowlands without any volcanic eruptions, solar shifts, or other external triggers. The ...
Course description: This course will be a Kafka-like toboggan ride through the paleoclimate literature. Paper choices will be guided by the confluence of 'landmark' contributions, paleoclimate 'heroes ...
Dramatic droughts linked to the decline of the Classic Maya civilization approximately 800 to 1000 CE may not have required any external trigger, according to a new climate modeling study. Instead, ...