Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Past Interglacials Working Group of … - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high
sea level), end‐members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we identify …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence of events from the onset to the demise of the Last Interglacial: Evaluating strengths and limitations of chronologies used in climatic archives

A Govin, É Capron, PC Tzedakis, S Verheyden… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Last Interglacial (LIG) represents an invaluable case study to investigate the
response of components of the Earth system to global warming. However, the scarcity of …

Strong and deep Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last glacial cycle

E Böhm, J Lippold, M Gutjahr, M Frank, P Blaser… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Extreme, abrupt Northern Hemisphere climate oscillations during the last glacial
cycle (140,000 years ago to present) were modulated by changes in ocean circulation and …

Atlantic-Pacific asymmetry in deep water formation

D Ferreira, P Cessi, HK Coxall… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
While the Atlantic Ocean is ventilated by high-latitude deep water formation and exhibits a
pole-to-pole overturning circulation, the Pacific Ocean does not. This asymmetric global …

Antarctic Zone nutrient conditions during the last two glacial cycles

AS Studer, DM Sigman, A Martínez‐García… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In a sediment core from the Pacific sector of the Antarctic Zone (AZ) of the Southern Ocean,
we report diatom‐bound N isotope (δ15Ndb) records for total recoverable diatoms and two …

Persistent monsoonal forcing of Mediterranean Outflow Water dynamics during the late Pleistocene

A Bahr, S Kaboth, FJ Jiménez-Espejo… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The mode and vigor of the global oceanic circulation critically depend on the salinity of (sub)
surface water masses advected to the loci of deep-water formation. Within the Atlantic …

The importance of Canadian Arctic Archipelago gateways for glacial expansion in Scandinavia

M Lofverstrom, DM Thompson, BL Otto-Bliesner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The last glacial cycle began around 116,000 years before present during a period with low
incoming solar radiation in Northern Hemisphere summer. Following the glacial inception in …

Oceanographic dynamics and the end of the last interglacial in the subpolar North Atlantic

Z Mokeddem, JF McManus… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The last interglacial interval was terminated by the inception of a long, progressive glaciation
that is attributed to astronomically influenced changes in the seasonal distribution of sunlight …

Carbon burial in deep-sea sediment and implications for oceanic inventories of carbon and alkalinity over the last glacial cycle

O Cartapanis, ED Galbraith, D Bianchi… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
Although it has long been assumed that the glacial–interglacial cycles of atmospheric CO 2
occurred due to increased storage of CO 2 in the ocean, with no change in the size of the …

The opening and closure of oceanic seaways during the Cenozoic: pacemaker of global climate change?

A Bahr, S Kaboth-Bahr, C Karas - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The opening and constriction of oceanic gateways played an essential role in shaping the
global climate throughout Earth's history. In this review, we provide an overview of the best …