Past warmth and its impacts during the Holocene thermal maximum in Greenland

Y Axford, A De Vernal… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Higher boreal summer insolation in the early to middle Holocene drove thousands of years
of summer warming across the Arctic. Modern-day warming has distinctly different causes …

[HTML][HTML] Glacier response to the Little Ice Age during the Neoglacial cooling in Greenland

KH Kjær, AA Bjørk, KK Kjeldsen, ES Hansen… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Northern Hemisphere, an insolation driven Early to Middle Holocene Thermal
Maximum was followed by a Neoglacial cooling that culminated during the Little Ice Age …

Aquatic plant wax hydrogen and carbon isotopes in Greenland lakes record shifts in methane cycling during past Holocene warming

JM McFarlin, Y Axford, S Kusch, AL Masterson… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Predicting changes to methane cycling in Arctic lakes is of global concern in a warming
world but records constraining lake methane dynamics with past warming are rare. Here, we …

Ancient plant DNA reveals High Arctic greening during the Last Interglacial

SE Crump, B Fréchette, M Power… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Summer warming is driving a greening trend across the Arctic, with the potential for large-
scale amplification of climate change due to vegetation-related feedbacks [Pearson et al …

A wetter Arctic coincident with hemispheric warming 8,000 years ago

EK Thomas, IS Castañeda, NP McKay… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic precipitation is predicted to increase this century, with dramatic consequences for high‐
latitude systems. Observations remain spatiotemporally limited, hampering determination of …

A continental-scale chironomid training set for reconstructing Arctic temperatures

AS Medeiros, ML Chipman, DR Francis… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present chironomid species assemblage data from 402 lakes across northern North
America, Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard to inform interpretations of Holocene subfossil …

Impact of paleoclimate on present and future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet

H Yang, U Krebs-Kanzow, T Kleiner, D Sidorenko… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Using transient climate forcing based on simulations from the Alfred Wegener Institute Earth
System Model (AWI-ESM), we simulate the evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) from …

An Early Pleistocene interglacial deposit at Pingorsuit, North‐West Greenland

O Bennike, W Colgan, L Hedenäs, O Heiri, G Lemdahl… - Boreas, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
At the Pingorsuit Glacier in North‐West Greenland, an organic‐rich deposit that had recently
emerged from the retreating ice cap was discovered at an elevation of 480 m above sea …

Holocene temperature history of northwest Greenland–With new ice cap constraints and chironomid assemblages from Deltasø

Y Axford, GE Lasher, MA Kelly, EC Osterberg… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Arctic temperature shifts drive changes in carbon cycling, sea ice extent and Greenland Ice
Sheet mass balance, all of which have global ramifications. Paleoclimate data from past …

[HTML][HTML] Greenland temperature and precipitation over the last 20 000 years using data assimilation

JA Badgeley, EJ Steig, GJ Hakim, TJ Fudge - Climate of the Past, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
Reconstructions of past temperature and precipitation are fundamental to modeling the
Greenland Ice Sheet and assessing its sensitivity to climate. Paleoclimate information is …