Revisiting the Holocene global temperature conundrum

DS Kaufman, E Broadman - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Recent global temperature reconstructions for the current interglacial period (the Holocene,
beginning 11,700 years ago) have generated contrasting trends. This Review examines …

Holocene thermal maximum mode versus the continuous warming mode: Problems of data-model comparisons and future research prospects

F Chen, Y Duan, S Hao, J Chen, X Feng, J Hou… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
The Holocene, the most recent interglacial, provides an important time window for
evaluating current global warming and predicting future temperature changes. With the …

Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial

HM Hu, G Marino, C Pérez-Mejías, C Spötl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial and its preceding glacial
termination represent an enigmatically intense climate response to relatively weak insolation …

Opposed east-west climate response of the Arctic Ocean during the present interglacial

A de Vernal, C Hillaire-Marcel, T Song, T Radi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The role of the Arctic Ocean in the global climate system during the last climatic cycles
remains conjectural, but radiocarbon-based chronologies and proxy data provide reliable …

[HTML][HTML] LegacyClimate 1.0: a dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the last 30 kyr and beyond

U Herzschuh, T Böhmer, C Li… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract Here we describe LegacyClimate 1.0, a dataset of the reconstruction of the mean
July temperature (T July), mean annual temperature (T ann), and annual precipitation (P …

[HTML][HTML] Relative importance of forcings and feedbacks in the Holocene temperature conundrum

PO Hopcroft, PJ Valdes, BN Shuman, M Toohey… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pre-industrial Holocene provides the backdrop for the emergence of civilisations and
the starting point of anthropogenic climate change. Several reconstructions show an early …

Holocene thinning in central Greenland controlled by the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream

I Tabone, A Robinson, M Montoya… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ice-core records from the interior of the Greenland ice sheet suggest widespread thinning
during the Holocene. However, the recurring underestimation of this thinning in numerical …

Patterns of last-deglacial diatom-inferred summer temperature variability and ecological thresholds in the alpine lakes from southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Q Wang, X Yang, B Song - Global and Planetary Change, 2023 - Elsevier
The Indian summer monsoon (ISM) is a significant component of global climate and plays a
key role in transporting heat and moisture from tropical oceans to the Indian subcontinent …

Regional pollen-based Holocene temperature and precipitation patterns depart from the Northern Hemisphere mean trends

U Herzschuh, T Böhmer, M Chevalier… - Climate of the …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
A mismatch between model-and proxy-based Holocene climate change, known as the
“Holocene conundrum”, may partially originate from the poor spatial coverage of climate …

Greenland Ice cores reveal a south‐to‐north difference in Holocene thermal maximum timings

KC Martin, C Buizert, E Brook… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Holocene temperature evolution remains poorly understood. Proxies in the early and mid‐
Holocene suggest a Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) where temperatures exceed the …