@article{3cdee290582f42b287757acec0f870df,
title = "Abrupt Southern Great Plains thunderstorm shifts linked to glacial climate variability",
abstract = "Thunderstorms in the Southern Great Plains of the United States are among the strongest on Earth and have been shown to be increasing in intensity and frequency during recent years. Assessing changes in storm characteristics under different climate scenarios, however, remains highly uncertain due to limitations in climate model physics. We analyse oxygen isotopes from Texas stalactites from 30–50 thousand years ago to assess past changes in thunderstorm size and duration using a modern radar-based calibration for the region. Storm regimes shift from weakly to strongly organized on millennial timescales and are coincident with well-known abrupt climate shifts during the last glacial period. Modern-day synoptic analysis suggests that thunderstorm organization in the Southern Great Plains is strongly coupled to changes in large-scale wind and moisture patterns. These changes in the large-scale circulation may be used to assess future predictions and palaeo-simulations of mid-latitude thunderstorm climatologies.",
author = "Maupin, {Christopher R.} and Roark, {E. Brendan} and Kaustubh Thirumalai and Shen, {Chuan Chou} and Courtney Schumacher and {Van Kampen-Lewis}, Stephen and Housson, {Audrey L.} and McChesney, {C. Lorraine} and Oru{\c c} Baykara and Yu, {Tsai Luen} and Kemble White and Partin, {Judson W.}",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge T. Bhattacharya, S. B. Malevich, G. Boyd and the Williamson County Conservation Foundation. We are grateful for constructive feedback from N. Levin. We thank Y.-C. Chou for conducting U/Th dating in the High-precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University. Funding was provided in part by a Texas A&M University high-impact undergraduate research grant. K.T. acknowledges support from the University of Arizona Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF). U/Th dating was supported by the Science Vanguard Research Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (108-2119-M-002-012) and the Higher Education Sprout Project of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan ROC (108L901001). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.",
year = "2021",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1038/s41561-021-00729-w",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "14",
pages = "396--401",
journal = "Nature Geoscience",
issn = "1752-0894",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "6",
}