Publications
D. Fleitmann
Citations: 11828 (Web of Science) and 18140 (Google Scholar); 07.02.2026
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126. Altaweel, M., Mohammed, D.A., Squitieri, A., Paine, A.R., Radner, K., Fleitmann, D. (2025) Early Urbanism in Mesopotamia Coincided with Increased Moisture between 6500 to 5500 Years BP. Quaternary Science Reviews 369: 109614. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109614.
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125. Held, F., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Kipfer, T., Tüysüz, O., Koç, K., Affolter, S., Fleitmann, D., 2025. Hydrological variability in the Black Sea region during the last 670,000 years recorded in multi-proxy speleothem records from northern Türkiye. Quaternary Sci Rev 367. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109534.
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124. Kipfer, T., Affolter, S., Häuselmann, A., Tschudin, P., Fleitmann, D., 2025. Citizen Science-Projekt "Höhlentropfwässer". Stalactite (Zeitschrift der SChweizerischen Gesellschaft für Höhlenforschung). No. 1, 32-39.
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123. Markowska, M., Vonhof, H.B., Groucutt, H.S., Breeze, P.S., Drake, N., Stewart, M., Albert, R., Andrieux, E., Blinkhorn, J., Boivin, N., Budsky, A., Clark-Wilson, R., Fleitmann, D., Gerdes, A., Martin, A.N., Martinez-Garcia, A., Nicholson, S.L., Price, G.J., Scerri, E.M.L., Scholz, D., Vanwezer, N., Weber, M., Alsharekh, A.M., Al Omari, A.A., Al-Mufarreh, Y.S.A., Al-Jibreen, F., Alqahtani, M., Al-Shanti, M., Zalmout, I., Petraglia, M.D., Haug, G.H., 2025. Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08859-6
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122. Morgan, A.W., Paine, A.R., Koc, K., Haldon, J., Hofmeister, E., Cheng, H., Tüysüz, O., Matter, A., Edwards, L.R., Haghipour, N., Hajdas, I., Fleitmann, D., 2025. Societal responses to cold-season rainfall variability: a speleothem perspective on Byzantine and Hittite climate interactions in Late Holocene Türkiye and southeast Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109365
121. Fleitmann, D., Bosomworth, M.; Amin Al-Manmi, D.A.M.; Leng, M.J., Sahy, D., Radner, K., Morgan, A., Pike, A.W.G., Altaweel, M., 2025. Mid-Holocene hydroclimatic optimum recorded in a stalagmite from Shalaii Cave, Northern Iraq. Quaternary Science Reviews, 356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109286
120. Affolter, S., Kipfer, T., Hofmeister, E., Leuenberger, M., Fleitmann, D., 2025. Paleoclimatic significance of water isotopes in speleothem fluid inclusions. Earth Science Reviews, 261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.105026
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119. Jacobson, M.L., Gascoigne, A.L., Fleitmann, D., 2024. The climatic resilience of the Sassanian Empire. Human Ecology, 52, 1127-1143.
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118. Izdebski, A., Bloomfield, K., Eastwood, W.J., Fernandes, R., Fleitmann, D. et al., 2024. The Emergence of Interdisciplinary Environmental History - Collaborative Approaches to the Late Holocene. Anales HSS. DOI: 10.1017/ahss.2022.114.; https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-annales-2022-1-page-11.htm
117. Luterbacher, J., Xoplaki, E., Izdebski, A., Fleitmann, D., 2024. Palaeoclimatology of Byzantine Lands (AD 300-1500). In: A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium. In: Izdebski, A. and Preiser-Kappeller, J. (Eds.) A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium, Brill, 27-58. doi.org/10.5771/9783465145509-63
116. Gabriel, I., Plunkett, G., Abbott, P.M., Behrens, M., Burke, A., Chellman, N., Cook, E., Fleitmann, D., Hörhold, M., Hutchison, W., Mcconnell, J.R., Oladóttir, B.A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Sliwinski, J.T., Sugden, P., Twarloh, B., Sigl, M. (2024). Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period. Commun Earth Environ 5.
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115. Held, F., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Tüysüz, O., Koç, K., Fleitmann, D. (2024). Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles of the penultimate and last glacial period recorded in stalagmites from Türkiye. Nature Communications 15. DOI: ARTN 1183 10.1038/s41467-024-45507-5
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114. Haldon, J. and Fleimann, D. (2024). A sixth-century C.E. drought in Arabia new Palaeoclimate data and some historical implications. Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies. DOI: 10.3366/jlaibs.2023.00024
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113. Tian, Y., Fleitmann, D., Zhang, Q., Sha, L., Wassenburg, J.A., Axelsson, J., Zhang, H., Li, X., Hu, J., Li, H., Zhao, L., Cai, Y., Ning, Y., Cheng, H. Holocene climate change in southern Oman deciphered by speleothem records and climate model simulations. Nature Communications 14, 4718 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40454-z
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112. Fleitmann, D., Haldon, J., Bradley, R.S., Burns, S.J., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Raible, C.C., Jacobson, M., Matter, A. Droughts, societal change and a context for the emergence of Islam in late Antique Arabia. Science 376; 1317-+, 2022.
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111. Jacobson, M.J., Pickett, J., Gascoigne, A.L., Fleitmann, D., Elton, H. Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity. PLOS ONE, 17: e0270295. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270295, 2022.
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110. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Cheng, H., Affolter, S. Moisture and seasonality shifts recorded in Holocene and Pleistocene speleothems from south-eastern Arabia. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2021GL097255, 2022.
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109. Nicholson, S.L., Hosfield, R., Groucutt, H.S., Pike, A.W.G., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Fleitmann, D. A climatic evaluation of the southern dispersal route during MIS 5e. Quaternary Science Reviews 279, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107378, 2022.
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108. Midgley, S.D., Fleitmann, D., Grau-Crespo, R. Bromate incorporation in calcite and aragonite. Geochemica and Cosmochimica Acta 324, 17-25, 2022.
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107. Erkan, G., Bayari, C.S., Fleitmann, D., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Ozbakir, M. Late Pleistocene-Holocene climatic implications of high-resolution stable isotope profiles of a speleothem from south-central Anatolia, Turkey. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37, 503-515, 2022.
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106. Jacobson, M.J., Flohr, P., Gascoigne, A., Leng, M.J., Sadekov, A., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Tüysüz, O., Fleitmann, D., 2021. Heterogenous late Holocene climate in the Eastern Mediterranean – The Kocain Record From SW Turkey. GeophysicalResearch Letters 48, Issue 20, e2021GL094733, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094733.
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105. Nicholson, S.L., Jacobson, M.J., Hosfield, R., Fleitmann, D., 2021. The stalagmite record of southern Arabia: Climatic Extremes, Human Evolution and Societal Development. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:749488. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.749488.
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104. Midgley, S.D., Di Tommaso, D., Fleitmann, D., Grau-Crespo, R., 2021. Sulfate and Molybdate Incorporation at the Calcite Water Interface: Insights from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. Acs Earth Space Chem 5, 2066-2073.
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103. Nicholson, S.L., Hosfield, R., Groucutt, H.S., Pike, A.W.G., Fleitmann, D., 2021. Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5. J Anthropol Archaeol 62.
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102. Koc, K., Kosun, E., Cheng, H., Demirtas, F., Edwards, R.L., Fleitmann, D., 2020. Black carbon traces of human activities in stalagmites from Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science 123.
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101. Midgley, S.D., Taylor, J.O., Fleitmann, D., Grau-Crespo, R., 2020. Molybdenum and sulfur incorporation as oxyanion substitutional impurities in calcium carbonate minerals: A computational investigation. Chem Geol 553.
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100. Ghadiri, E., Affolter, S., Brennwald, M.S., Fleitmann, D., Häuselmann, A.D., Cheng, H., Maden, C., Leuenberger, M., Kipfer, R., 2020. Estimation of temperature - altitude gradients during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition from Swiss stalagmites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 544, 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116387.
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99. Therre, S., Fohlmeister, J., Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Burns, S.J., Arps, J., Schroder-Ritzrau, A., Friedrich, R., Frank, N., 2020. Climate-induced speleothem radiocarbon variability on Socotra Island from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Younger Dryas. Climate of the Past 16, 409-421.
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98. Corrick, E.C., Drysdale, R.N., Hellstrom, J.C., Capron, E., Rasmussen, S.O., Zhang, X., Fleitmann, D., Couchoud, I., Wolff, E. (2020) Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Science, 369, 963-969.
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97. Bosomworth, M., Fleitmann, D., Rabbani, M. (2020). Palaeoclimate and Environment of the Iraqi Central Zagros. In: The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan, Eds. Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Raheem, K.R., Richardson, A., Oxbow Books, pp. 688.
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96. Flohr, P., Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Richardson, A., Fleitmann, D. (2020). Radiocarbon dates from Sheikh-e Abad, Iraqi-Kurdistan. In: The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan, Eds. Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Raheem, K.R., Richardson, A., Oxbow Books, pp. 688.
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95. Comas-Bru, L. et al., (2019). Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial. Climate of the Past 15, 1557-1579.
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94. Nicholson, S.L., Pike, A.W.G., Hosfield, R., Roberts, N., Sahy, D., Woodhead, J., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Affolter, S., Leuenberger, M., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Fleitmann, D. (2019). Pluvial periods in Southern Arabia over the last 1.1. million years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106112.
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93. Ljungqvist, F. Seim, A., Krusic, P., Gonzalez-Rouco, J, Werner, J., Cook, E., Zorita, E., Luterbacher, J., Xoplaki, E., Destouni, G., Garcia-Bustamante, E., Aguilar, C., Seftigen, K.,
Wang, J., Gagen, M., Esper, J., Solomina, O., Fleitmann, D., Büntgen, U. (2019). European warm-season temperature and hydroclimate since 850 CE. Environmental Research Letters, 14 (8), 084015.
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92. Altaweel, M., Marsh, A., Jotheri, J., Hritz, C., Fleitmann, D., Rost, S., Lintner, S.F., McGuire, G., Bosomworth, M., Jacobson, M., Garzanti, E., Limonta, M., Radeff, G. (2019). New insights on the role of environmental Dynamics shaping Southern Mesopotamia: From the Pre-Ubaid to the early Islamic period. Iraq, doi: 10.1017/irq.2019.2.
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91. Affolter, S., Häuselmann, A., Fleitmann, D., Edwards, L.R., Cheng, H., Leuenberger, M. (2019). Central Europe temperature constrained by speleothem fluid inclusion water isotopes over the past 14,000 years. Science Advances; doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav3809.
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90. Wendt, K., Häuselmann, A.D., Fleitmann, D., Berry, A.E., Wang, X., Auler, A.S., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L. (2019). Three-phased Heinrich Stadial 4 recorded in NE Brazil stalagmites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 510, 94-102.
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89. Jones, M.D. and 23 co-authors (2019). 20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia. Wires Water 6.
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88. Atsawaranunt, K. and SISAL group members (2018). The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems. Earth System Science Data, 10 (3), 1687-1713.
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87. Cremaschi, M., Esposti, M.D., Fleitmann, D., Perego, A., Sibilia, E., Zerboni, A. (2018). Late Holocene onset of intensive cultivation and introduction of the falaj irrigation system in the Salut oasis (Sultanate of Oman). Quaternary Science Reviews, 200, 123-140.
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86. Ghadiri, E., Vogel, N., Brennwald, M.S., Maden, C., Häuselmann, A.D., Fleitmann, D., Cheng, H., Kipfer, R. (2018). Noble gas thermometry on a Swiss stalagmite grown in the Jura Mountains during the last glacial – interglacial transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 495, 192-201.
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85. Xoplaki, E., Luterbacher, J., Wagner, S., Zorita, E., Fleitmann, D., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Sargent, A.M., White, S., Toreti, A., Haldon, J.F., Morchedai, L., Bozkurt, D., Akçer-Ön, S., Izdebski, A. (2018). Modelling climate and societal resilience in the Eastern Mediterranean during the last millennium. Human Ecology, 46, 363-371, 1doi: 0.1007/s10745-018-9995-9.
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84. Marsh, A., Fleitmann, D., Al-Manmi, D.A.M., Altaweel, M., Wengrow, D., Carter, R. (in press). Mid- to late-Holocene archaeology, environment and climate in the northeast Kurdistan region of Iraq. Holocene, doi.org/10.1177/0959683617752843.
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83. Flohr, P., Fleitmann, D., Zorita, E., Sadekov, A., Cheng, H., Bosomworth, M., Edwards, L., Matthews, W., Matthews, R. (2017). Late Holocene droughts in the Fertile Crescent recorded in a speleothem from northern Iraq. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi: 10.1002/2016GL071786.
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82. Chamenisch, C., Keller, K.M., Salvisberg, M., Amann, B., Bauch, M., Blumer, S., Bradzil, R., Brönnimann, S., Büntgen, U., Campbell, B.M.S., Fernandez-Donado, L., Fleitmann, D., Glaser, R., Gonzalez-Rouco, F., Grosjean, M., Hoffmann, R.C., Huhtamaa, H., Joos, F., Kiss, A., Kotyza, O., Lehner, F., Luterbacher, J., Maughan, N., Neukom, R., Novy, T., Pribyl, K.,
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81. Raible, C.C., Riemann, D., Schuh, M., Slavin, P., Werner, J.P., Wetter, O. (2016). The early Spörer Minimum – a period of extraordinary climate and socio-economic changes in western and central Europe. Climate of the Past, 12, 2107-2126.
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80. Fankhauser, A., McDermott, F., Fleitmann, D. (2016). Episodic speleothem deposition tracks the terrestrial impact of millennial-scale Last Glacial climate variability in SW Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 152, 104-117.
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79. Gogou, A., Triantaphyllou, M.V., Xoplaki, E., Izdebski, A., Parinos, C., Dimiza, M., Bouloubassi, I., Luterbacher, J., Kouli, K., Martrat, B., Fleitmann, D., Rousakis, G., Kaberi, H., Athanasiou, M., Lykousis, V. (2016). Climate variability and socio-environmental changes in the northern Aegean Sea during the last 1500 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 136, 209-228.
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78. Flohr, P., Fleitmann, D., Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Black, S. (2016). Evidence of resilience to past climate change in Southwest Asia: Early farming communities and the 9.2 and 8.2 ka events. Quaternary Science Reviews, 136, 23-39.
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77. Xoplaki, E., Fleitmann, D., Luterbacher, J., Wagner, S., Haldon, J.F., Zorita, E., Telelis, I., Toreti, A., Izdebski, A. (2016). The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Byzantium: A review of the evidence on climatic fluctuations, economic performance and societal change. Quaternary Science Reviews, 136, 229-252.
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76. Affolter, S., Häuselmann, A.D., Fleitmann, D., Häuselmann, P, Leuenberger, M. (2015). Triple isotope (δD, δ17O, δ18O) study on precipitation, drip water and speleothem fluid inclusions for a central European cave (NW Switzerland). Quaternary Science Reviews, 127, 73-89.
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75. Meckler, A.N., Affolter, S., Dublyansky, Y.V., Krüger, Y., Vogel, N., Adkins, J.F., Bernasconi, S.M., Carolin, S., Cobb, K.M., Frenz, M., Kipfer R., Leuenberger, M., Moerman, J., Spötl, C., Fleitmann, D. Glacial-interglacial temperature change in the tropical West Pacific: A comparison of stalagmite-based paleo-thermometers. Quaternary Science Reviews, 127, 90-116.
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74. Triantaphyllou, M.V., Gogou, A., Dimiza, M.D., Kostopoulou, S., Parinos, C., Roussakis, G., Geraga, M., Bouloubassi, I., Fleitmann, D., Zervakis, V., Velaoras, D., Diamantopoulou, A., Sampatakaki, A., Lykousis, V. (2016). Holocene Climatic Optimum centennial-scale paleoceanography in the NE Aegean (Mediterranean Sea). Geo-Marine Letters, doi:10.1007/s00367-015-0426-2.
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73. Häuselmann, A.D., Fleitmann, D., Cheng, H., Tabersky, D., Günther, D., Edwards, L.R.. (2015). Timing and nature of the penultimate deglaciation in a high alpine stalagmite from Switzerland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 126, 264-275.
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72. Spadin, F., Marti, D., Hidalgo-Staub, R., Ricka, J., Fleitmann, D., Frenz, M. (2015). Technical Note: How accurate can stalagmite formation temperatures be determined using vapour bubble radius measurements in fluid inclusions? Climate of the Past, 10, 3689-3713.
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71. Arz, H. W., Shumilovskikh, L.S., Wegwerth, A., Fleitmann, D., Behling, H. (2015). Environmental and climate dynamics during the last two glacial terminations and interglacials in the Black Sea/Northern Anatolian region. M. Schulz and A. Paul (eds.), Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC), SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-00693-2-20.
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70. Manning, S.W., Höflmayer, F., Möller, N., Dee, M.W., Bronk Ramsey, C., Fleitmann, D., Higham, T., Kutschera, W., Wild, E.M. (2014). Dating the Thera (Santorini) eruption: evidence versus poor scholarship, and the end of the low chronology. Antiquity, 88, 1164-1179.
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69. Krüger, Y., Hiltbrunner, B., Luder, A., Fleitmann, D., Frenz, M. (2014). A new heating/cooling stage designed for fluid inclusion microthermometry of large stalagmite sections. Chemical Geology, 386, 59-65.
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68. Affolter, S., Fleitmann, D., Leuenberger, M. (2014). New-on-line method for water isotope analysis of speleothem fluid inclusions using laser absorption spectroscopy (WS-CRDS). Climate of the Past, 10, 1291-1304.
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67. Haldon, J., Roberts, N., Izdebski, A., Fleitmann, D., Ladstätter Cassis, M., Doonan, O., Eastwood, W., Elton, H., S., McCormick, M., Manning, S., Newhard, J., Nichol, K., Telelis, I., Xoplaki, E. (2014). Byzantine Anatolia: a 'laboratory' for the study of climate impacts and socio-environmental relations in the past. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XLV:2, 113-161.
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66. Schumilovskikh, L.S., Fleitmann, D., Nowaczyk, N.R., Behling, H., Marret, F., Wegwerth, A., Arz, HW. (2014). Orbital and millennial-scale environmental changes between 64 and 25 ka BP recorded in Black Sea sediments. Climate of the Past, 10, 939-945.
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65. Badertscher, S., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Tüysüz, O., Fleitmann, D. (2014). Speleothems as sensitive recorders of volcanic eruptions – the Bronze Age Minoan eruption recorded in a stalagmite from Turkey. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 392, 58-65.
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64. Westermann, S., Stein, M., Matera, V., Fiet, N., Fleitmann, D., Adatte, T., Föllmi, K.B. (2013). Rapid changes in the redox conditions of the western Tethys Ocean during the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 121, 467-486.
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63. Westermann, S., Duchamp-Alphonse, S., Fiet, N., Fleitmann, D., Matera, V., Adatte, T., Föllmi, K.B. (2013). Palaeoenvironmental changes during the Valanginian: new insights from variations in phosphorus contents and bulk- and clay mineralogies in the western Tethys. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 392, 196-208.
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62. Schumilovskikh, L.S., Arz, H.W., Fleitmann, D., Marret, F., Nowaczyk, N., Tarasov, P., Wegwerth, A., Behling, H. (2013). and environmental changes in Northern Anatolia during the penultimate deglaciation and Eemian recorded in Black Sea sediments. Quaternary Research, 80, 349-360.
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61. Vogel, N., Brennwald, M.S., Fleitmann, D., Wieler, R., Maden, C., Süsli, A., Kipfer, R. (2013). A combined vacuum crushing and sieving (CVCS) system designed to determine noble gas paleo-temperatures from stalagmite samples. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14 (7), 2432-2444.
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60. Rosenberg, T., Preusser, F., Risberg, J., Plikk, A., A Kadi, K., Matter, A., Fleitmann, D. (2013). Middle and Late Pleistocene humid periods recorded in palaeolake deposits of the Nafud desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 70, 109-123.
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59. Shumilovskikh, L.S., Marret, F., Fleitmann, D., Arz, H.W., Nowaczyk, N., Plessen, B., Behling, H. (2013). Eemian and Holocene sea-surface conditions in the southern Black Sea: organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst record from core 22-GC3/3. Marine Micropaleontology, 101, 146-160.
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58. Rudzka, D., McDermott, F., Jackson, A., Fleitmann, D. (2013). Inverse modeling of the 14C bomb pulse in stalagmites to constrain the dynamics of soil carbon cycling at selected European cave sites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 112, 32-51.
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57. Van Rampelbergh, M., Fleitmann, D., Verheyden, S., Cheng, H., Edwards, L., De Geest, P., De Vleeschouwer, D., Claeys, P., Burns, S.J., Matter, A. (2013), Keppens. Mid- to late Holocene Indian Ocean monsoon variability recorde; d in four speleothems from Socotra Island, Yemen. Quaternary Science Reviews, 65, 129-142 (Among the most 25 most downloaded papers).
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56. Vogel, N., Scheidegger, Y., Brennwald, M.S., Fleitmann, D., Figura, S., Wieler, R, Kipfer, R. (2013). Stalagmite water content as a proxy for drip water supply in tropical and subtropical areas. Climate of the Past, 9, 1-12.
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55. Bomou, B., Adatte, T., Tantawy, A.A., Mort, H., Fleitmann, D., Huang, Y., Föllmi, K.B. (2013). The expression of the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event in Tibet. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 369, 466-481.
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54. Stein, M., Westermann, S., Adatte, T., Matera, V., Fleitmann, D., Spangenberg, J.E., Föllmi, K.B. (2012). Late Barremian-Early Aptian paleoenvironmental change: the Cassis-La Bédoule section (SE France). Cretaceous Research, 37, 209-222.
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53. Luterbacher, J.. R. Garcia Herrera, R. Allan, Alvarez-Castro, B.G., Benito, G., Booth, J., Büntgen, U., Colombaroli, D., Davis, B., Esper, J., Felis, T., Fleitmann, D., Frank, D., Gallego, D., Gonzalez-Rouco, F.J., Goosse, H., Kiefer, T., Macklin, M.G., Montagna, P., Newman, L., Ribera, P., Roberts, N., Silenzi, S., Tinner, W., Valero-Garces, B., van der Schrier, Vanniere, B., Wanner, H., Werner, J. P., Willett, G., Xoplaki, C.S. Zerefos, E., Zorita, E. A review of 2000 years of paleoclimate evidence in the Mediterranean. In: The climate of the Mediterranean region: From the past to the Future. Ed. Lionello, P., Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 87-186.
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52. Schumilovskikh, L.S., Tarasov, P., Arz, H.W., Fleitmann, D., Schlütz, F., Marret, F., Behling, H. (2012). Vegetation and environmental dynamics in the southern Black Sea region since 18 kyr BP derived from the marine core 22-GC3, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 337-338, 177-193.
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51. Stein, M., Arnaud-Vanneau, A., Adatte, T., Fleitmann, D., Spangenberg, J.-E., Föllmi, K.B. (2012). Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological change on the northern Tethyan carbonate platform during the Late Barremian to earliest Aptian. Sedimentology, 59, 939-963.
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50. Föllmi, K.B., Bole, M., Jammet, N., Froidevaux, P., Godet, A., Bodin, S., Adatte, T., Matera, V., Fleitmann, D., Spangenberg, J.E. (2012). Bridging the Faraoni and Selli oceanic anoxic events: short and repetitive dys- and anaerobic episodes during the late Hauterivian to early Aptian in the central Tethys. Climate of the Past, 8, 171-189.
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49. Rosenberg, T.M., Preusser, F., Blechschmidt, I., Fleitmann, D., Jagher, R., Matter, A. (2012). Late Pleistocene palaeolake in the interior of Oman: A potential key-area for the dispersal of anatomically modern humans out-of-Africa. Journal of Quaternary Science, 27, 13-16.
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48. Marti, D., Krüger, Y., Fleitmann, D., Frenz, M., Ricka, J. (2012). The effect of surface tension on liquid-gas equilibria in isochoric systems and its application to fluid inclusions. Fluid Phase Equilibria, 314, 13-21.
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47. Rosenberg, T.M., Preusser, F., Fleitmann, D., Schwalb, A., Penkman, K., Schmid, T.W., Al-Shanti, M.A., Kadi, K., Matter, A. (2011). Humid periods in southern Arabia: windows of opportunity for modern human dispersal. Geology, 39, 1115-1118.
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46. Gertsch, B., Keller, G., Adatte, T., Garg, R., Prasad, V., Berner, Z., Fleitmann, D. (2011). Environmental effects of Deccan volcanism across the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in Meghalaya, India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 310, 272-285.
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45. Krüger, Y., Marti, D., Hidalgo, R., Fleitmann, D., Frenz, M. (2011). Liquid-vapour homogenisation of fluid inclusions in stalagmites: Evaluation of a new thermometer for paleoclimate research. Chemical Geology, 289, 39-47.
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44. Scheidegger, Y., Brennwald, M.S., Fleitmann, D., Jeannin, P-Y., Wieler, R., Kipfer, R. (2011). Determination of Holocene cave temperatures records from Kr and Xe concentrations in stalagmite fluid inclusions. Chemical Geology, 288, 61-66.
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43. Graham, N.E., Ammann, C.M., Fleitmann, D., Cobb, K.M., Luterbacher, J. (2011). Shifting Tropical Ocean Temperatures Drove the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Climate Dynamics, 37, 1217-1245; doi 10.1007/s00382-010-0914-z.
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42. Göktürk, O.M., Fleitmann, D., Badertscher, S., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Leuenberger, M., Fankhauser, A., Tüysüz, O., Kramers, J. (2011). Climate on the Southern Black Sea coast during the Holocene: Implications from the Sofular Cave record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 2433-2445.
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41. Rudzka, D., McDermott, F., Baldini, L.M., Fleitmann, D., Moreno, A., Stoll, H. (2011). A coupled δ13C-radiocarbon investigation of cave and soil processes recorded by three European speleothems during the Late Glacial and early Holocene. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 4321-4339.
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40. Gennari, G., Rosenberg, T., Spezzaferri, S., Berger, J.-P., Fleitmann D., Preusser, F., Al-Shanti, M., Matter A. (2011). Faunal evidence of a Holocene pluvial phase in Southern Arabia with remarks on the morphological variability of Helenina anderseni. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 41, 248-259.
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39. Stein, M., Föllmi, K.B., Westermann, S., Godet, A., Adatte, T., Matera, V., Fleitmann, D., Berner, Z. (2011). Progressive paleoenvironmental change during the Late Barremian - Early Aptian as prelude to Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a: Evidence from the Gorgo a Cerbara section (Umbria-Marche basin, central Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 30: 396-406.
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38. Badertscher, S., Fleitmann, D., Cheng, H., Edwards, L., Göktürk, O.M., Zumbühl, A., Leuenberger, M., Tüysüz, O. (2011). Pleistocene water intrusions from the Mediterranean and Caspian Seas into the Black Sea. Nature Geoscience, 4: 236-239.
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37. Graham, N., Ammann, C.M., Fleitmann, D., Cobb, K.M., Luterbacher, J. (2011). Evidence for global climate reorganization during medieval times. PAGES News, 19: 9-10.
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36. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S.J., Pekala, M., Mangini, A., Al-Subbary, A.A., Al-Aowah, M., Kramers, J, Matter A. (2011). Holocene and Pleistocene pluvial periods in Yemen, Southern Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30: 783-787; doi: 10.1026/j.quascirev.2011.01.004.
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35. Gray, L.J., Beer, J., Geller, M., Haigh, J., Lockwood, M., Matthes, K., Cubasch, U., Fleitmann, D., Harrison, G., Hood, L., Luterbacher, J., Marsh, N., Shindell, D., van Geel, B., White, W. (2010). Solar influences on climate. Reviews of Geophysics, 48, RG4001, doi: 10.1029/2009RG000282.
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34. Gertsch, B., Adatte, T., Keller, G., Tantawy, A.A.A.M., Z. Berner, Mort, H.P., Fleitmann, D. (2010). Middle and Late Cenomanian anoxia in shallow and deeper shelf environments of western Morocco. Sedimentology, 57, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01151.x.
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33. Djamali, M., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Ponel, P., de Beaulieu, J.L., Braconnot, P., Lézine, A.-M-. Médail, F., Akhani, H., Fleitmann, D., Fleury, J., Gasse, F., Roberts, N., Stevens, L. (2010). Indian summer monsoon variations could have affected the early Holocene woodland expansion in the Near East. Holocene, 20: 813-820.
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32. Westermann, S., Fiet, N., Fleitmann, D., Caron, M., Matera, V., Adatte, T., Föllmi, K.B. (2010). The expression of the end-Cenomanian oceanic anoxic event (OAE 2) in the Helvetic Alps. Cretaceous Research, 31, 5, 500-514.
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31. Scheidegger, Y., Baur, H., Brennwald, M.S., Fleitmann D., Wieler, R., Kipfer, R. (2010). Accurate analysis of noble gas concentrations in small water samples and its application to fluid inclusions in stalagmites. Chemical Geology, 272, 31-39.
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30. Westermann, S., Föllmi, K.B., Adatte, T., Matera, V., Schnyder, J., Fleitmann, D., Fiet, N., Ploch, I., Duchamp-Alphonse, S. (2010). Does the Valanginian positive carbon-isotope excursion correspond to an undercover oceanic anoxic episode? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290, 118-131.
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29. Ebert, A., Ramseyer, K., Gnos, E., Spandler, C., Fleitmann, D., Bitzios, D., Decrouez, D. (2010). Provenance of marbles from Naxos based on microstructural and geochemical characterization. Archaeometry, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2009.00477.
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28. Fleitmann, D., Cheng, H. Badertscher, S, Göktürk, O.M., Mudelsee, M., Fankhauser, A., Pickering, R., Edwards, R.L., Matter, A., Kramers, J., Tüsyüz, O. (2009). Timing and climatic imprint of Dansgaard-Oeschger events in stalagmites from Northern Turkey, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2009GL040050.
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27. Cheng, H., Fleitmann, D., Edwards, R.L., Wang, X.F., Cruz, F.W., Auler, A.S., Mangini, A., Wang, Y.J., Burns, S.J., Matter, A. (2009). Timing and structure of the 8.2 ky event inferred from δ18O records of stalagmites from China, Oman and Brazil. Geology, 37, doi: 10.1130/G30126A.1. ( both authors have contributed equally to the paper)
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26. Fleitmann, D. and Matter, A. (2009). The speleothem record of climate variability in Southern Arabia. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 341, 633-642.
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25. Keller, G., Adatte, T., Bajpai, S., Mohabey, D.M., Widdowson, M., Khosla, A., Sharma, R., Khosla, S.C., Gertsch, B., Fleitmann, D., Sahni, A. (2009). K-T transition in Deccan traps and intertrappean beds in central India marks major marine seaway across India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 282, 10-23.
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24. Mudelsee, M., Scholz, D., Röthlisberger, R., Fleitmann, D., Mangini, A., Wolff, E.W. (2009): Climate spectrum estimation in the presence of timescale errors. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 16 (1), 43-56.
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23. Cheng, H., Fleitmann, D., Edwards, R.L., Burns, S.J., Matter, A. (2008). Timing of the 8.2-kyr event in a stalagmite from Northern Oman. PAGES News, 16 (3), 29-30.
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22. Frisia, S., Badertscher, S., Borsato, A., Susini, J., Göktürk, O.M., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Tüysüz, O., Fleitmann, D. (2008). The use of stalagmite geochemistry to detect past volcanic eruptions and their environmental impacts. PAGES News, 16 (3), 25-26.
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21. Krüger, Y., Fleitmann, D., Frenz, M. (2008). Paleotemperatures from fluid inclusion liquid-vapor homogenization in speleothems. PAGES News, 16 (3), 13-14.
20. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S.J., Mudelsee, M., Bradley, R.S., Kramers, J., Matter, A. (2008). A widespread climatic anomaly at around 9200 years before present. Paleoceanography, 23, PA1102, doi:10.1029/2007PA001519.
19. Shakun, J.D., Burns, S.J., Fleitmann, D., Kramers, J., Matter, A., Al-Subary, A. (2007). A high-resolution, absolute-dated deglacial speleothem record of Indian Ocean climate from Socotra Island, Yemen. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 259, 442-456.
18. Fleitmann, D., Dunbar, R.B., McCulloch, M., Mudelsee, M., Vuille, M., McClanahan, T., Cole, J.E., Eggins, S. (2007). East African soil erosion recorded in a 300 year old coral colony from Kenya. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL028525. (See also: Editor”s Choice (2007). Science, 315, 1339)
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17. Immenhauser, A., Dublyansky, Y.V., Vewer, K., Fleitmann, D., Pashenko, S.E. (2007). Textural, elemental and isotopic characteristics of Pleistocene phreatic cave deposits (Jabal Madar, Oman): A tale from two worlds. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 77, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2007.012.
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16. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S. J., Mangini, A., Mudelsee, M., Kramers, J., Villa, I., Neff, U., Al-Subbary, A. A., Büttner, A., Hippler, D., Matter, A. (2007). Holocene ITCZ and Indian monsoon dynamics recorded in stalagmites from Oman and Yemen (Socotra). Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 170-188. (Among the 25 most downloaded and five most cited papers in Quaternary Science Reviews between 2007 and 2012)
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15. Luterbacher, J., Xoplaki, E., Casty, C., Wanner, H., Pauling, A., Küttel, M., Tutishauer, T., Brönnimann, S., Fischer, E., Fleitmann, D. and 34 others. (2006). Mediterranean climate variability over the last centuries; A review. In: The Mediterranean Climate: an overview of the main characteristics and issues, Eds. Lionello, P., Malanotte-Rizzoli, P., and Boscolo, R., Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 27-148.
14. Bookhagen, B., Fleitmann, D., Nishiizumi, K., Strecker, M.R., Thiede, R.C. (2006). Holocene monsoonal dynamics and fluvial terrace formation in the northwest Himalaya, India. Geology, 34, 601-604.
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13. Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Pint, J. (2004). The speleothem record of climate change in Saudi Arabia. Open-File Report, SGS-OF-2004-8, Saudi Geological Survey, 40 p.
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12. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S.J., Neff, U., Mudelsee, M., Mangini, A., Kramers, J., Matter, A. (2004). Holocene records of rainfall variation and associated ITCZ migration from stalagmites from Northern and Southern Oman. In: The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future. Diaz, H.F. and Bradley, R.S. (Eds.), 259-289 (511p).
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11. Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Burns, S. J., Al-Subbary, A., Al-Aowah (2004). Geology and Quaternary climate history of Socotra. Fauna of Arabia, 20, 27-45.
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10. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S. J., Neff, U., Mudelsee, M., Mangini, A., Matter, A. (2004). Paleoclimatic interpretation of high-resolution oxygen isotope profiles derived from annually laminated speleothems from Southern Oman. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 935-945.
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9. Burns, S. J., Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Kramers, J., Al-Subbary, A. A. (2003). Indian Ocean climate and an absolute chronology over Dansgaard/Oeschger events 9 to 13. Science, 301, 1365-1367. See also: Burns, S.J., Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Kramers, J., Al-Subbary, A. A. (2004). Corrections and clarifications – Indian ocean climate and an absolute chronology over Dansgaard-Oeschger events 9 to 13, Science, 305, 1567.
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8. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S. J., Mudelsee, M., Neff, U., Kramers, J., Mangini, A., Matter, A. (2003). Holocene forcing of the Indian monsoon recorded in a stalagmite from Southern Oman. Science, 300, 1737-1739.
7. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S. J., Neff, U., Mangini, A., Matter, A. (2003). Changing moisture sources over the Last 330,000 Years in Northern Oman from fluid-inclusion evidence in speleothems. Quaternary Research, 60, 223-232. (Among the 25 most downloaded papers)
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6. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S.J., Neff, U., Al-Subbary, A.A., Al-Aowah, M.A., Matter, A., Mangini, A. (2002). Climate change in Southern Arabia: Speleothems from Yemen and Oman as archives for monsoon rainfall over the last 330,000 years. Yemeni Journal of Science, 4, 15-23.
5. Burns, S.J., Fleitmann, D., Mudelsee, M., Neff, U., Mangini, A., Matter, A. (2002). A 780-year annually-resolved record of Indian Ocean monsoon variation in a speleothem from south Oman. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 107, doi:10.1029/2001JD001281.
4. Fleitmann, D., Burns, S.J., Mudelsee, M., Neff, U., Kramers, J., Mangini, A., Matter, A. (2002). Holocene variability in the Indian Ocean monsoon: A stalagmite-based, high-resolution oxygen isotope record from Southern Oman. PAGES News, 10 (2), 7-8.
3. Constantin, S., Onac, B.P., Fleitmann, D., Tamas, T. (2001). Past vegetation changes in karst areas as revealed by a comparative isotopic study of two speleothems from Romania. World Correlation of Karst Ecosystem Newsletter, IGCP Project 448, 67-73.
2. Burns, S.J., Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Neff, U., Mangini, A. (2001). Speleothem evidence from Oman for continental pluvial events during interglacial periods. Geology, 29, 623-626.
1. Neff, U., Burns, S.J., Mangini, A., Mudelsee, M., Fleitmann, D., Matter, A. (2001). Evidence for solar forcing of the Indian Monsoon in a high-resolution speleothem record from Oman. Nature, 411, 290-293.