The demonstration that natural climate variability during the last glacial cycle shifted rapidly
between remarkable extremes has dramatically revised the understanding of climate …

Late Quaternary climate is now known to have been highly unstable and prone to major,
rapid changes, especially warmings, that occurred quickly within a few decades or less. This …

Dansgaard–Oeschger (DO) events constitute the most pronounced mode of centennial to
millennial climate variability of the last glacial period. Since their discovery, many decades of …

Millennial variability is a robust feature of many paleoclimate records, at least throughout the
last several glacial cycles. Here we use the mean signal from Antarctic climate events 1 to 4 …

The strongest mode of centennial to millennial climate variability in the paleoclimatic record
is represented by Dansgaard–Oeschger (DO) cycles. Despite decades of research, their …

Abstract The Last Interglacial (LIG) represents an invaluable case study to investigate the
response of components of the Earth system to global warming. However, the scarcity of …

Holocene oxygen isotope data from the GISP2 ice core reveal temperature oscillations in
Greenland with a periodicity of~ 900 y, which can be correlated to climate perturbations in …

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

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

Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …