Samples of some recent ARTS Related Publications: 

Alibert, C. and M.T. McCulloch, 1997, Strontium/calcium ratios in modern Porites corals from the Great Barrier Reef as a proxy for sea-surface temperature: Calibration of the thermometer and monitoring of ENSO, Paleoceanography, 12, 345-363.

Allison,  N., Tudhope, A.W., and Fallick, A.E., 1996, Factors influencing the stable carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of Porites lutea coral skeletons from Phuket, South Thailand, Coral Reefs, 15, 43-57.

Beck, J.W., J. Recy, F. Taylor, R.L. Edwards, and G. Cabioch, 1997, Abrupt changes in early Holocene tropical sea surface temperature derived from coral records, Nature, 385, 705-707.

Bian, H., and Druffel, E.R.M., 1999, Monthly stable isotope records in an Australian coral and their correspondence with environmental variables, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 731-734.

Boiseau M., A. Juillet-Leclerc, P. Yiou, B. Salvat, P. Isdale, M. Guillaume, 1998, Atmospheric and oceanic evidences of El Niņo-Southern Oscillation events in the south-central Pacific Ocean from coral stable isotopic records over the last 137 years, Paleoceanography 13, 671-686.

Bradley, R.S., K. Briffa, J. Cole, and M. Hughes, "Climate of the last millennium," chapter in preparation for PAGES Synthesis volume, edited by K. Alverson, T. Pedersen, and R. Bradley

Bush, A.B.G., 1999. Assessing the impact of mid-Holocene insolation on the atmosphere-ocean system. Geophys. Res. Lett. 26, pp. 99-102.

Cane, M. A., A. C. Clement, A. Kaplan, Y. Kushnir, R. Murtugudde, D. Pozdnyakov, R. Seager, and S. Zebiak, Twentieth-century sea surface temperature trends, Science, 275, 957-960, 1997.

Chao, Y., M. Ghil, J.C. McWilliams. 2000. Pacific Interdecadal Variability in This Century's Sea Surface Temperatures. Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, pp. 2261-4.

Charles, C.D., D.E. Hunter, and R.G. Fairbanks, 1997, Interaction between the ENSO and the Asian monsoon in a coral record of tropical climate, Science, 277, 925-928.

Clement, A.C., R. Seager, M.A. Cane. 1999. Orbital controls on the El Niņo/Southern Oscillation and the tropical climate. Paleoceanography 14, p. 441-456.

Cobb K.M. et al. 2001.  A central tropical Pacific coral demonstrates Pacific, Indian and Atlantic decadal climate connections. Geophysical Research Letters 28:2209-2212.

Cole, J.E., and E.R. Cook, 1998, Decadal changes in the relationship between El Niņo/Southern Oscillation variability and moisture balance in the continental United States. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 4529-4532.

Cole, J.E, R.B. Dunbar, T.R. McClanahan, and N.A. Muthiga, 2000, Tropical Pacific forcing of decadal SST variability in the western Indian Ocean over the past two centuries, Science, 287. 617-619.

Correge, T., T. Delcroix, J. Recy, W. Beck, G. Cabioch,, F. Le Cornec. 2000. Evidence for stronger El Niņo-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events in a mid-Holocene massive coral. Paleoceanography 15 ,pp. 465-470.

Crowley, T.J., T.M. Quinn, and F.W. Taylor, 1997, Evidence for a volcanic cooling signal in a 335 year coral record from New Caledonia, Paleoceanography, 12, 633-639.

Draschba, S., Pätzold, J., and Wefer, G., 2000, North Atlantic climate variability since AD 1350 recorded in 18O and skeletal density of Bermuda corals, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 88, 733-741.

Dunbar, R.B., B.K. Linsley, and G.M. Wellington, 1996, Eastern Pacific corals monitor El Niņo/Southern Oscillation, precipitation, and sea surface temperature variability over the past three centuries, in Climatic fluctuations and forcing mechanisms of the last 2000 years, P.D. Jones, R.S. Bradley, and J. Jouzel (editors), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 375-407.

Dunbar, R.B., and J.E. Cole, 1999, Annual Records of Tropical Systems, PAGES Workshop Report Series, 99-1, PAGES, BERN Switzerland, 72 pp..

Dunbar, R.B., Holocene climate variability: an update, 2000, in: McIntosh, R.J., J.E. Tainter, and S.K. McIntosh (eds.), The way the wind blows: Climate, History, and Human Action, Columbia University Press, Historical Ecology Series, New York, p. 45-88.

Evans, M.N., Fairbanks, R.G., and Rubenstone, J.L., 1998, A proxy index of ENSO teleconnections, Nature, 394, 732-733.

Evans, M.N., A. Kaplan, M.A. Cane, 1998, Optimal sites for coral-based reconstruction of global sea surface temperature, Paleoceanography, 13, 502-516.

Evans, M.N., R.G. Fairbanks, and J.L. Rubenstone, 1999, The thermal oceanographic signal of ENSO reconstructed from a Kiritimati Island coral, J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Evans, M.N., A. Kaplan and M.A. Cane, 2000, Intercomparison of coral oxygen isotope data and historical sea surface temperature (SST): Potential for coral-based SST field reconstructions, Paleoceanography, 15.

Fairbanks, R.G., Evans, M.N., Rubenstone, J. L., Mortlock, R.A., Broad, K., Moore, M.D., and Charles, C.D., 1997, Evaluating climate indices and their geochemical proxies measured in corals, Coral Reefs, 16, S93-S100.

Fallon, S.J.M., M.T. McCulloch, R. van Woesik and D.J. Sinclair. 1999, Corals at their latitudinal limits: laser ablation trace element systematics in Porites from Shirigai Bay, Japan, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 172, 221-238.

Felis T., J. Pätzold, Y. Loya, and G. Wefer, 1998, Vertical water mass mixing and plankton blooms recorded in skeletal stable carbon isotopes of a Red Sea coral, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 30,731-30,740.

Gagan, M.K., L.K. Ayliffe, D. Hopley, J.A. Cali, G.E. Mortimer, J. Chappell, M.T. McCulloch, and M.J. Head, 1998, Temperature and surface-ocean water balance of the mid-Holocene tropical western Pacific, Science, 279, 1014-1018.

Gagan, M.K., A.R. Chivas, and P.J. Isdale, 1996, Timing coral-based climatic histories using 13C enrichments driven by sychronized spawning, Geology, 24, 1009-1012.

Gagan, M.K., Ayliffe, L.K., Beck, J.W., Cole, J.E., Druffel, E.R.M., Dunbar, R.B., and D.P. Schrag, 2000, New views of tropical paleoclimate from Corals, Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 167-182.

Guilderson, T.P., D.P. Schrag, M. Kashgarian, and J. Southon, 1998, Radiocarbon variability in the western equatorial Pacific inferred from a high-resolution coral record from Nauru Island, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 24,641-24,650.

Guilderson, T.P., and Schrag, D.P., 1998, Abrupt Shift in Subsurface Temperatures in the Tropical Pacific Associated with Changes in El Niņo, Science, 281, 240-243.

Guzman, H., and A.W. Tudhope, 1998, Seasonal variation in skeletal extension rate and stable isotopic (13C/12C and 18O/16O) composition in response to several environmental variables in the Caribbean reef coral Siderastrea siderea, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 166, 109-121.

Hart, S.R., and A.L. Cohen, 1996, An ion probe study of annual cycles of Sr/Ca and other trace elements in corals, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 3075-3084.

Hemming, N.G., Guilderson, T.P., and Fairbanks, R.G., 1998, Seasonal variations in the boron isotopic composition of coral: A productivity signal?, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 12, 581-586.

Isdale, P.J., B.J. Stewart, and J.M. Lough, 1998, Palaeohydrological variation in a tropical river catchment: a reconstruction using fluorescent bands in corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, The Holocene, 8, 1-8.

Kaplan, A., M.A. Cane, Y. Kushnir, A.C. Clement, M.B. Blumenthal, and B. Rajagopalan, 1998a, Analyses of global sea surface temperature 1856-1991, J. Geophy. Res., 103, 18,567-18,589.

Kuhnert, H,. J. Patzold, B. Hatcher, K.-H. Wyrwoll, A. Eisenhauer, L.B. Collins, Z.R. Zhu, and G. Wefer, 1999, A 200-year coral stable oxygen isotope record from a high latitude reef off Western Australia, Coral Reefs, 18, 1-12.

Kuhnert, H., Pätzold, J., Wyrwoll, K.-H., and Wefer, G., 2000, Monitoring climate variability over the past 116 years in coral oxygen isotopes from Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 88, 725-732.

Leder, J.J., P.K. Swart, A. Szmant, and R.E. Dodge, 1996, The origin of variations in the isotopic record of scleractinian corals: I. Oxygen, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 2857-2870.

Linsley, B.K., Messier, R.G., and Dunbar, R.B., 1999, Assessing between-colony oxygen isotope variability in the coral Porites lobata at Clipperton Atoll, Coral Reefs, 18,13-27.

Linsley, B.K., Ren, L., Dunbar, R.B., and Howe, S.H., 2000, ENSO and decadal-scale climate variability at 10°N in the eastern Pacific from 1893 to 1994: A coral-based reconstruction from Clipperton Atoll, Paleoceanography, 15, 322-335.

Linsley, B.K., Wellington, G.M., and Schrag, D.P., in press, Decadal Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Sub-Tropical South Pacific (1726 to 1997 A.D.), Science, 290: 1145-1148.

Liu, Z., J. Kutzbach, L. Wu. 2000. Modeling Climate Shift of El Niņo Variability in the Holocene. Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, pp. 2265-8.

Lough J.M., D. J. Barnes, and R.B. Taylor, 1996, The potential of massive corals for the study of high-resolution climate variation of the past millennium, in Climatic fluctuations and forcing mechanisms of the last 2000 years, Jones, P.D., R.S. Bradley, and J. Jouzel (editors), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 355-372.

Mann, M.E., Bradley, R.S., and M.K. Hughes, 1998, Global temperature patterns over the past five centuries: Implications for anthropogenic and natural forcing of climate, Nature, 392, 779-787.

Markgraf, V., Baumgartner, T.R., Bradbury, J.P., Diaz, H.F., Dunbar, R.B., Luckman, B., Seltzer, G., Swetnam, T.W., and R. Villalba, 2000, Paleoclimate Reconstruction along the Pole-Equator-Pole Transect of the Americas (PEP 1), Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 125-140.

McCulloch, M.T., Tudhope, A.W., Esat, T.M., Mortimer, G.E., Chappell, J., Pillans, B., Chivas, A.R., and Omura, A., 1999, Coral Record of Equatorial Sea-Surface Temperatures During the Penultimate Deglaciation at Huon Peninsula, Science, 283. 202-204.

McCulloch, M.T., G. Mortimer, T. Esat, L. Xianhua, B. Pillans, and J. Chappell, 1996, High resolution windows into early Holocene climate: Sr/Ca coral records from the Huon Peninsula, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 138, 169-178.

Minobe, S. (1997) A 50-70 year climatic oscillation over the North Pacific and North America. Geophys. Res. Lett. 24, pp. 683-686.

Minobe, S. (1999) Resonance in bidecadal and pentadecadal climate oscillations over the North Pacific: Role in climatic regime shifts. Geophys. Res. Lett. 26, pp. 855-858.

Mitsuguchi, T., E. Matsumoto, O. Abe, T. Uchida, T. and P.J. Isdale, 1996, Mg/Ca thermometry in coral skeletons, Science, 274, 961-963.

Moore, M.D., Schrag, D.P., and Kashgarian, M., 1997, Coral radiocarbon constraints on the source of the Indonesian throughflow, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 12,359-12,366.

Moustafa, Y.A., Pätzold, J., Loya, Y., and Wefer, G., 2000, Mid-Holocene stable isotope record of corals from the northern Red Sea, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 88, 742-751.

Otto-Bliesner, B. L. 1999. El Niņo/La Niņa and Sahel precipitation during the middle Holocene. Geophys. Res. Lett. 26, pp. 87-90.

Quinn, T.M., F. Taylor, T. Crowley, and S.M. Link, 1996, Evaluation of sampling resolution in coral stable isotope records: a case study using monthly stable isotope records from New Caledonia and Tarawa, Paleoceanography, 11, 529-542.

Quinn, T.M., Crowley, T.J., and Taylor, F.W., 1996, New stable isotope results from a 173-year coral from Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3413-3416.

Quinn T.M., T.J. F.W. Taylor, C. Henin, P. Joannot, and Y. Join, 1998, A multicentury stable isotope record from a New Caledonia: Interannual and decadal sea surface temperature variability in the southwest Pacific since 1657 A.D., Paleoceanography, 13, 412-426.

Schrag, D.P., 1999, Rapid analysis of high-precision Sr/Ca ratios in scleractinian corals and other marine carbonates, Paleoceanography, 14, 97-102.

Shen, C.-C., T. Lee, C.-Y. Chen., C.-H. Wang, C.-F. Dai, and L.-A. Li, 1996, The calibration of D[Sr/Ca] versus sea-surface temperature relationship for Porites corals, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 3849-3858.

Shen, G.T., 1996, Rapid change in the tropical ocean and the use of corals as monitoring systems, in Geoindicators: Assessing Rapid Environmental Changes in Earth Systems, A.R. Berger and W.J. Iams (editors), Balkema Press, Rotterdam, 155-169.

Stahle, D.W., R. D’Arrigo, et al. (14 authors), 1998, Experimental dendroclimatic reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 79, 2137-2152.

Swart, P.K., J.J. Leder, A.M. Szmant, and R.E. Dodge, 1996, The origin of variations in the isotopic record of scleractinian corals: II. Carbon, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 2871-2885.

Swart P.K., K.S. White, D. Enfield, R.E. Dodge, P. Milne, 1998, Stable oxygen isotopic composition of corals from the Gulf of Guinea as indicators of periods of extreme precipitation conditions in the sub-Sahara, J. Geophys. Res, 103, 27,885-27,892.

Thompson, L.G., K.A. Henderson, E. Mosley-Thompson and P.-N. Lin, 1999, The tropical ice core record of ENSO, in El Niņo and the Southern Oscillation: Multiscale Variability, Global and Regional Impacts, H.F. Diaz and V. Markgraf (editors), Cambridge Univ. Press, in press.

Tudhope, A.W., D.W. Lea, G.B. Shimmield, C.P. Chilcott, T.P. Scoffin, A.E. Fallick and M. Jebb, 1997, Climatic records from massive Porites in Papua New Guniea: A comparison of skeletal Ba/Ca, skeletal d18O and coastal rainfall, Proc. 8th Int. Coral Reef Symposium, 2, 1,719-1,724.

Tudhope, et al. 2001. Variability in the El Niņo- Southern Oscillation through a glacial- interglacial cycle. Science 291:1513-1516.

Urban, F.E., Cole, J.E., Overpeck, J.T., 2000, Influence of mean climate on tropical Pacific variability from a 155-year coral record, Nature, 407: 989-993.

Wei, G., M. Sun, X. Li, B. Nie. 2000. Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca and U/Ca ratios of a Porites coral from Sanya Bay, Hainan Island, South China Sea and their relationships to sea surface temperature. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 162,pp. 59-74

Wellington, G.M., G. Merlen, and R.B. Dunbar, 1996, Calibration of stable oxygen isotope signatures in Galapagos corals, Paleoceanography, 11, 467-480.

Woodroffe, C.D., and Gagan, M.K., 2000, Coral microatolls from the central Pacific record late Holocene El Nino, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1511-1514.

Zhang, Y., J. M. Wallace, and D. S. Battisti, 1997, ENSO-like interdecadal variability: 1900-93, Journal of Climate, 10, 1004-1020.