The notion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can have more than
one stable equilibrium emerged in the 1980s as a powerful hypothesis to explain rapid …

This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

Little doubt is left that climate change is underway, strongly affecting the Earth's biodiversity.
Some of the greatest challenges ahead concern the marine realm, but it is unclear to what …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

This is the second edition of Climate Time Series Analysis which was first published in 2010.
In this digital age, a second edition means not that the first edition of a book has been sold …

The oxygen-isotope records from Greenland ice cores show a very strong, reproducible
pattern of alternation between warm Greenland Interstadials (GI) and cold Greenland …

Arctic sea-ice extent and volume are declining rapidly. Several studies project that the Arctic
Ocean may become seasonally ice-free by the year 2040 or even earlier. Putting this into …

Abrupt climate change is a ubiquitous feature of the Late Pleistocene epoch. In particular,
the sequence of Dansgaard–Oeschger events (repeated transitions between warm …

The causes for and possible predictions of rapid climate changes are poorly understood.
The most pronounced changes observed, beside the glacial terminations, are the …

This book introduces stochastic dynamical systems theory in order to synthesize our current
knowledge of climate variability. Nonlinear processes, such as advection, radiation and …