Deciphering the evolution of global climate from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum
approximately 19 ka to the early Holocene 11 ka presents an outstanding opportunity for …

Contributors describe the current understanding of abrupt climate variations that have
occurred at millennial to submillennial time scales, events now recognized as characteristics …

While the abrupt climate events of the last deglaciation are well defined in ice core records
from the polar regions of both hemispheres, their manifestation elsewhere is less well …

The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past
climate changes that have been preserved in natural archives such as glacial ice, tree rings …

High-resolution records of past climatic changes during the last glacial have revealed a
number of abrupt changes on time scales of decades or less. Climate models suggest that …

A major puzzle of paleoclimatology is why, after a long interval of cooling climate, each late
Quaternary ice age ended with a relatively short warming leg called a termination. We here …

Reconstructions of Earth's past climate strongly influence our understanding of the dynamics
and sensitivity of the climate system. Yet global temperature has been reconstructed for only …

Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

During the last glacial period, iceberg discharges into the North Atlantic disrupted the
meridional overturning circulation, leading to cooling in the Northern Hemisphere and …

Recent global temperature reconstructions for the current interglacial period (the Holocene,
beginning 11,700 years ago) have generated contrasting trends. This Review examines …