Beyond the bipolar seesaw: Toward a process understanding of interhemispheric coupling

JB Pedro, M Jochum, C Buizert, F He, S Barker… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The thermal bipolar ocean seesaw hypothesis was advanced by Stocker and Johnsen
(2003) as the 'simplest possible thermodynamic model'to explain the time relationship …

An ice–climate oscillatory framework for Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles

LC Menviel, LC Skinner, L Tarasov… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Intermediate glacial states were characterized by large temperature changes in Greenland
and the North Atlantic, referred to as Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) variability, with some …

Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events

S Barker, J Chen, X Gong, L Jonkers, G Knorr… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Abrupt climate change is a ubiquitous feature of the Late Pleistocene epoch. In particular,
the sequence of Dansgaard–Oeschger events (repeated transitions between warm …

A 160,000-year-old history of tectonically controlled methane seepage in the Arctic

T Himmler, D Sahy, T Martma, G Bohrmann… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The geological factors controlling gas release from Arctic deep-water gas reservoirs through
seabed methane seeps are poorly constrained. This is partly due to limited data on the …

Sea ice and millennial-scale climate variability in the Nordic seas 90 kyr ago to present

U Hoff, TL Rasmussen, R Stein, MM Ezat… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
In the light of rapidly diminishing sea ice cover in the Arctic during the present atmospheric
warming, it is imperative to study the distribution of sea ice in the past in relation to rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic set by sea ice, frontal position and thermocline structure

JB Pedro, C Andersson, G Vettoretti… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
We use eighteen timescale-synchronised near-surface temperature reconstructions
spanning 10–50 thousand years before present to clarify the regional expression of …

Arctic freshwater outflow suppressed Nordic Seas overturning and oceanic heat transport during the Last Interglacial

MM Ezat, K Fahl, TL Rasmussen - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Last Interglacial period (LIG) was characterized by a long-term Arctic
atmospheric warming above the preindustrial level. The LIG thus provides a case study of …

Sea ice variability in the southern Norwegian Sea during glacial Dansgaard-Oeschger climate cycles

H Sadatzki, TM Dokken, SMP Berben… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The last glacial period was marked by pronounced millennial-scale variability in ocean
circulation and global climate. Shifts in sea ice cover within the Nordic Seas are believed to …

Ocean forcing of Ice Sheet retreat in central west Greenland from LGM to the early Holocene

AE Jennings, JT Andrews, CÓ Cofaigh… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Three radiocarbon dated sediment cores from trough mouth fans on the central west
Greenland continental slope were studied to determine the timing and processes of …

Deep-water circulation changes lead North Atlantic climate during deglaciation

F Muschitiello, WJ D'Andrea, A Schmittner… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Constraining the response time of the climate system to changes in North Atlantic Deep
Water (NADW) formation is fundamental to improving climate and Atlantic Meridional …