Southern Arizona hydroclimate over the last 3000 years: a comparison of speleothem elemental data and climate model simulations

Jonathan M King1, Melissa D Harrington2, Julia E Cole1, Russell Drysdale3, Jon D Woodhead4, John Fasullo5, Samantha Stevenson6, Bette L Otto-Bliesner7, Jonathan T Overpeck8, R. Lawrence Edwards9 and Gideon Mark Henderson10, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (4)University of Melbourne, School of Geography, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, (5)NCAR, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (7)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (8)Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (9)University of Minnesota, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States, (10)University of Oxford, Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom