Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review and synthesis

W Weijer, W Cheng, SS Drijfhout… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can have more than
one stable equilibrium emerged in the 1980s as a powerful hypothesis to explain rapid …

Vegetation, climate and human impact since 20 ka in central Yunnan Province based on high-resolution pollen and charcoal records from Dianchi, southwestern …

X Xiao, A Yao, A Hillman, J Shen… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
High-resolution pollen and charcoal records from Dianchi in central Yunnan Province,
southwestern China are presented in this study and reveal variations in vegetation, fire, lake …

Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations

CM Brierley, A Zhao, SP Harrison, P Braconnot… - Climate of the …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
The mid-Holocene (6000 years ago) is a standard experiment for the evaluation of the
simulated response of global climate models using paleoclimate reconstructions. The latest …

Freshwater forcing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation revisited

F He, PU Clark - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Freshwater (FW) forcing is widely identified as the dominant mechanism causing reductions
of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a climate tipping point that led to …

Multi-proxy constraints on Atlantic circulation dynamics since the last ice age

F Pöppelmeier, A Jeltsch-Thömmes, J Lippold… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Uncertainties persist in the understanding of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
and its response to external perturbations such as freshwater or radiative forcing. Abrupt …

A new view on abrupt climate changes and the bipolar seesaw based on paleotemperatures from Iberian Margin sediments

N Davtian, E Bard - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The last glacial cycle provides the opportunity to investigate large changes in the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) beyond the small fluctuations evidenced from …

A contracting intertropical convergence zone during the early Heinrich stadial 1

Y Yang, L Zhang, L Yi, F Zhong, Z Lu, S Wan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the fact that the response of tropical hydroclimate to North Atlantic cooling events
during the Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) has been extensively studied in African, South American …

Eurasian Ice Sheet collapse was a major source of Meltwater Pulse 1A 14,600 years ago

J Brendryen, H Haflidason, Y Yokoyama… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Rapid sea-level rise caused by the collapse of large ice sheets is a threat to human
societies. In the last deglacial period, the rate of global sea-level rise peaked at more than 4 …

230Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean

KM Costa, CT Hayes, RF Anderson… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 230Th normalization is a valuable paleoceanographic tool for reconstructing high‐
resolution sediment fluxes during the late Pleistocene (last~ 500,000 years). As its …

Sensitivity of altitudinal vegetation in southwest China to changes in the Indian summer monsoon during the past 68000 years

X Zhang, Z Zheng, K Huang, X Yang, L Tian - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Reconstructing vegetation changes during a glacial-interglacial cycles in southwest (SW)
China is crucial for understanding the amplitude of palaeoclimatic dynamics associated with …