309:. This cooling is primarily explained by steadily declining summer insolation, though synchronous patterns in hydrological responses at sub-millennial scales may be linked to atmospheric circulation shifts driven by factors such as internal variability in ocean-atmosphere teleconnections. Strengthening
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Noble, Paula; Zimmerman, Susan; Ball, Ian; Adams, Kenneth; Maloney, Jillian; Smith, Shane (2016-04-01). "Late
Holocene subalpine lake sediments record a multi-proxy shift to increased aridity at 3.65 kyr BP, following a millennial-scale neopluvial interval in the Lake Tahoe watershed and western
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During the
Neopluvial, the Great Salt Lake became fresher, and Pyramid Lake reached a water level of 1,186 metres (3,891 ft) above sea level. Walker Lake, Owens Lake and Mono Lake experienced their highest Holocene water levels, with the volumes of the latter two lakes more than doubling.
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Negrini, Robert M.; Wigand, Peter E.; Draucker, Sara; Gobalet, Kenneth; Gardner, Jill K.; Sutton, Mark Q.; Yohe, Robert M. (2006-07-01). "The Rambla highstand shoreline and the
Holocene lake-level history of Tulare Lake, California, USA".
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The term "neopluvial" was coined in 1982 and originally referred to high lake levels in Summer Lake. The term has also been used for a mid-to-late
Holocene phase of increased moisture noted in the form of increased wetness in eastern
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Mountains with small watersheds, particularly sensitive to a changing water balance, showed synchronous increase in lake levels from 6,000 to 5,000 years before present, centered at 5,700 years
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rose and vegetation changed in response to increased precipitation. The event was not exactly synchronous everywhere, with neopluvial lake-level rises occurring between 6,000 and 2,000 years ago. It is correlative to the
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In Fallen Leaf Lake, the
Neopluvial occurred 3,700 years before present in Fallen Leaf Lake. The end occurred 3,650 years before present; after that point precipitation became more irregular until the onset of the
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Liu, Tao; Ji, Lin; Baker, Victor R.; Harden, Tessa M.; Cline, Michael L. (5 February 2020). "Holocene extreme paleofloods and their climatological context, Upper
Colorado River Basin, USA".
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Wilkins, David E.; Currey, Donald R. (1999-04-01). "Radiocarbon chronology andΞ΄13C analysis of mid-to late-Holocene aeolian environments, Guadalupe
Mountains National Park, Texas, USA".
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Ababneh, Linah; Woolfenden, Wallace (2010-03-15). "Monitoring for potential effects of climate change on the vegetation of two alpine meadows in the White
Mountains of California, USA".
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Noble, Paula J.; Ball, G. Ian; Zimmerman, Susan H.; Maloney, Jillian; Smith, Shane B.; Kent, Graham; Adams, Kenneth D.; Karlin, Robert E.; Driscoll, Neal (2016-01-01).
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In
Pyramid Lake, the Neopluvial commenced starting from 5,000 years before present and reached a maximum between 4,100 and 3,800 years before present in Pyramid Lake.
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1251:"Late Glacial and Holocene record of climatic change in the southern Rocky Mountains from sediments in San Luis Lake, Colorado, USA"
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Hockett, Bryan (2015-06-01). "The zooarchaeology of Bonneville Estates Rockshelter: 13,000years of Great Basin hunting strategies".
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Ababneh, Linah (2008-09-01). "Bristlecone pine paleoclimatic model for archeological patterns in the White Mountain of California".
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dropped, with the lower limit of wooden vegetation penetrating into deserts. Counterintuitively, higher tree line elevations in the
874:(2004-08-11). "Genetic consequences of forest population dynamics influenced by historic climatic variability in the western USA".
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Badger, Thomas C.; Watters, Robert J. (2004-05-01). "Gigantic seismogenic landslides of Summer Lake basin, south-central Oregon".
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1,278 metres (4,193 ft), although it was not as high as during the mid-Holocene. Water levels rose in Tulare Lake as well.
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248:. The Neopluvial in the
195:Great Basin pocket mouse
191:long-tailed pocket mouse
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199:Western harvest mouse
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346:References
315:jet stream
303:Neoglacial
232:Chronology
207:tree lines
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