This paper presents a comprehensive review and synthesis of ice streams in the Laurentide
Ice Sheet (LIS) based on a new mapping inventory that includes previously hypothesised ice …

This paper reconstructs the deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS; including the
Innuitian Ice Sheet) from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), with a particular focus on the …

Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

The interactions between environmental change and human societies have a long, complex
history spanning many millennia, but these have changed fundamentally in the last century …

This chapter assesses the capacity of the global climate models used elsewhere in this
report for projecting future climate change. Confidence in model estimates of future climate …

The growth and reduction of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets over the past million years is
dominated by an approximately 100,000-year periodicity and a sawtooth pattern,(gradual …

The Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) is an important part of the earth's climate system.
Previous research has shown large uncertainties in simulating future changes in this critical …

• The sustained rate of increase over the past century in the combined radiative forcing from
the three well-mixed greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous …

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 …

The evolution of the northwest African hydrological balance throughout the Pleistocene
epoch influenced the migration of prehistoric humans. The hydrological balance is also …