Publications — Thirumalai

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Recent drying of the Ganga River is unprecedented in the last 1,300 years - Singh Chuphal et al. (2025)

Anomalous oceanic moisture supply conceals expected stable water isotopic depletion during monsoon extreme rain events in Kerala, India - Lekshmy et al. (2025)

Decoupling short- and long-term methane seepage dynamics: high-resolution insights from Pyrgo spp. δ¹³C records at Woolsey Mound, Gulf of Mexico - Babineaux et al. (2025)

Did Globigerinoides ruber (pink) disappear entirely from the Indian Ocean after 120 kyr BP? - Jayan et al. (2025)

Insights from growing Globorotalia truncatulinoides and Globorotalia menardii in the laboratory - Reynolds et al. (2025)

Extreme Indian summer monsoons reduce marine productivity - Thirumalai (2025)

Extreme Indian summer monsoon states stifled Bay of Bengal productivity across the last deglaciation - Thirumalai et al. (2025)

Snapshots of mid-to-late Holocene sea-surface temperature variability from a subtropical western Atlantic coral reef - Jacobs et al. (2025)

Late Miocene-early Pliocene hydroclimate evolution of the western Altiplano, northern Chile: Implications for aridification trends under warming climate conditions - Mentzer et al. (2025)

Greening of India and revival of the South Asian summer monsoon in a warmer world - Clément et al. (2024)

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Individual Foraminiferal Analyses: A Review of Current and Emerging Geochemical Techniques - Fehrenbacher et al. (2024)

Future increase in extreme El Niño supported by past glacial changes - Thirumalai, DiNezio et al. (2024)

Paired X‐Ray Micro CT Scanning and Individual Foraminifera Isotopic Analysis Reveal (De)coupled Changes in Carbonate Preservation and Temperature - Jana et al. (2024)

An inconsistent ENSO response to Northern Hemisphere stadials over the last deglaciation - Glaubke et al. (2024)

Shell Reworking Impacts on IFA Climate Variability Reconstructions - Bienzobas Montávéz et al. (2024)

Morphotypical and Geochemical Variations of Planktic Foraminiferal Species in Siberian and Central Arctic Ocean Core Tops - Prabhakar et al. (2024)

PDO and AMO Modulation of the ENSO–Asian Summer Monsoon Teleconnection During the Last Millennium - Wang et al. (2024)

Tropical Pacific Modulation of the Asian Summer Monsoon Over the Last Millennium in Paleoclimate Data Assimilation Reconstructions - Hu et al. (2023)

Solar Irradiance Modulates the Asian Summer Monsoon—ENSO Relationship Over the Last Millennium - Du et al. (2023)

Chasing Interannual Marine Paleovariability - Thirumalai & Maupin (2023)

Hydrologic Controls on Individual Ostracode Stable Isotopes in a Desert Lake: A Modern Baseline for Lake Turkana - Thirumalai et al. (2023)

Salty seas sway global glacial cycles - Thirumalai (2023)

Indian margin methane hydrate dissociation recorded in the carbon isotopes of benthic (Miliolida) foraminifera - Clemens et al. (2023)

Indian Ocean variability changes in the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project - Brierley et al. (2023)

Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation - McClymont et al. (2023)

Coherent Indian Summer Monsoon and Sahel Rainfall Variability Revealed by Ethiopian Rainfall δ¹⁸O - Midhun et al. (2022)

Rapid and precise measurement of carbonate clumped isotopes using laser spectroscopy - Yanay et al. (2022)

When Eastern India Oscillated Between Desert Versus Savannah‐Dominated Vegetation - Zorzi et al. (2022)

Southern hemisphere forced millennial scale Indian summer monsoon variability during the late Pleistocene - Band et al. (2022)

Unraveling forced responses of extreme El Niño variability over the Holocene - Lawman et al. (2022)

Investigating the influence of temperature and seawater δ18O on Donax obesulus (Reeve, 1854) shell δ18O - Warner et al. (2022)

Holocene Evolution of Sea‐Surface Temperature and Salinity in the Gulf of Mexico - Thirumalai et al. (2021)

Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity - Mishra et al. (2021)

Paleovegetation dynamics in an alternative stable states landscape in the montane Western Ghats, India - Ramya Bala et al. (2021)

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Uncertainty in palaeosalinity estimates from foraminiferal geochemical records in the northern Indian Ocean - Mehta et al. (2021)

Remote and local drivers of Pleistocene South Asian summer monsoon precipitation: A test for future predictions - Clemens et al. (2021)

Orbitally driven evolution of Asian monsoon and stable water isotope ratios during the Holocene: Isotope-enabled climate model simulations and proxy data comparisons - Tharammal et al. (2021)

Discerning Changes in High‐Frequency Climate Variability Using Geochemical Populations of Individual Foraminifera - Glaubke et al.

Abrupt Southern Great Plains thunderstorm shifts linked to glacial climate variability - Maupin et al. (2021)

Evolution of the oligotrophic West Pacific Warm Pool during the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary - Bali et al. (2020)

Past climates inform our future - Tierney et al. (2020)

Lessons from a high-CO 2 world: an ocean view from∼ 3 million years ago - McClymont et al. (2020)

A Brief Commentary on the Interpretation of Chinese Speleothem δ¹⁸O Records as Summer Monsoon Intensity Tracers - Gebregiorgis et al. (2020)

Emergence of an equatorial mode of climate variability in the Indian Ocean - DiNezio et al. (2020)

Monsoon reconstructions using bulk and individual foraminiferal analyses in marine sediments offshore India. - Thirumalai & Clemens (2020)

Methane, Monsoons, and Modulation of Millennial‐scale Climate - Thirumalai et al. (2020)

Palaeoclimate perspectives on the Indian Ocean Dipole - Abram et al. (2020)

Future exacerbation of hot and dry summer monsoon extremes in India - Mishra et al. (2020)

A Century of Reduced ENSO Variability During the Medieval Climate Anomaly - Lawman et al. (2020)

Bayesian Calibration of the Mg/Ca Paleothermometer in Planktic Foraminifera - Tierney et al. (2019)

The Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB - Greene et al. (2019)

PaCTS v1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data - Khider et al. (2019)

An El Niño Mode in the Glacial Indian Ocean? - Thirumalai et al. (2019)

Significant seasonal contrast in the Arabian Sea during deglaciation: Evidence from oxygen isotopic analyses of individual planktic foraminifera - Naidu et al. (2019)

Considerations for Globigerinoides ruber (white and pink) paleoceanography: compre- hensive insights from a long-running sediment trap - Richey et al. (2019)

Single foraminifera Mg/Ca of two morphotypes of G. ruber by LA-ICPMS: New insights into past seasonality and inter-annual variability - Schmitt et al. (2019)

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