Solar influences on climate

LJ Gray, J Beer, M Geller, JD Haigh… - Reviews of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate requires knowledge of
solar variability, solar‐terrestrial interactions, and the mechanisms determining the response …

The role of solar forcing upon climate change

B Van Geel, OM Raspopov, H Renssen… - Quaternary Science …, 1999 - Elsevier
Evidence for millennial-scale climate changes during the last 60,000 years has been found
in Greenland ice cores and North Atlantic ocean cores. Until now, the cause of these climate …

Holocene flooding and climate change in the Mediterranean

G Benito, MG Macklin, C Zielhofer, AF Jones… - Catena, 2015 - Elsevier
Mediterranean fluvial hydrology is characterised by decadal-to-multi-centennial length wet
and dry episodes with abrupt transitions related to changes in atmospheric circulation. Since …

Biomarkers as proxies for plant inputs to peats: an example from a sub-boreal ombrotrophic bog

RD Pancost, M Baas, B van Geel, JSS Damsté - Organic geochemistry, 2002 - Elsevier
Lipid distributions in modern peat-forming plants were determined and compared to
biomarkers recovered from a ca. 2800 year old peat deposited in a Dutch ombrotrophic bog …

Human impact and climate changes—synchronous events and a causal link?

BE Berglund - Quaternary International, 2003 - Elsevier
Interaction between cultural development and the natural environment is generally
accepted. Holocene climate change is described as one of the main environmental factors …

Human and climatic impact on the environment as derived from colluvial, fluvial and lacustrine archives—examples from the Bronze Age to the Migration period …

B Zolitschka, KE Behre, J Schneider - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Investigation of colluvial, fluvial and lacustrine sediment archives from 12 sites in Germany
for the last ca 5000 years demonstrates that there is no synchronous development of the …

Late Holocene climate and cultural changes in the southwestern United States

VJ Polyak, Y Asmerom - Science, 2001 - science.org
Columnar stalagmites in caves of the Guadalupe Mountains during the late Holocene record
a 4000-year annually resolved climate history for the southwestern United States. Annual …

Development and refinement of proxy-climate indicators from peats

FM Chambers, RK Booth, F De Vleeschouwer… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Peat, especially from acidic mires (bogs), is a natural archive of past environmental change.
Reconstructions of past climate from bogs commenced in the 19th Century through …

Response of climate to solar forcing recorded in a 6000-yearδ18O time-series of Chinese peat cellulose

YT Hong, HB Jiang, TS Liu, LP Zhou, J Beer… - The …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous studies have shown that the oxygen isotope ratio (δ18O) of plant cellulose can
serve as a sensitive proxy indicator of past climate, but its application has mainly been …

Vegetation history, climate and human impact in the Spanish Central System over the last 9000 years

JA López-Sáez, D Abel-Schaad, S Pérez-Díaz… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a review of the available Holocene pollen records from the Spanish
Central System (113 sites and 150 14 C dates). Palynological data obtained from pollen …