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| Title |
Out of the Tropics: The Pacific, Great Basin Lakes, and Late Pleistocene Water Cycle in the Western United States
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| Published in |
Science, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1218390 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mitchell Lyle, Linda Heusser, Christina Ravelo, Masanobu Yamamoto, John Barron, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Timothy Herbert, Dyke Andreasen |
| Abstract |
The water cycle in the western United States changed dramatically over glacial cycles. In the past 20,000 years, higher precipitation caused desert lakes to form which have since dried out. Higher glacial precipitation has been hypothesized to result from a southward shift of Pacific winter storm tracks. We compared Pacific Ocean data to lake levels from the interior west and found that Great Basin lake high stands are older than coastal wet periods at the same latitude. Westerly storms were not the source of high precipitation. Instead, air masses from the tropical Pacific were transported northward, bringing more precipitation into the Great Basin when coastal California was still dry. The changing climate during the deglaciation altered precipitation source regions and strongly affected the regional water cycle. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| Nepal | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 86% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 134 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 126 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 27 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 10% |
| Professor | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 25 | 19% |
| Unknown | 12 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 74 | 55% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 13% |
| Environmental Science | 11 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 3% |
| Unknown | 19 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2012.
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#1,875,188
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#26,184
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#12,884
of 172,156 outputs
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#318
of 790 outputs
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