Novel climates, no‐analog communities, and ecological surprises

JW Williams, ST Jackson - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
No‐analog communities (communities that are compositionally unlike any found today)
occurred frequently in the past and will develop in the greenhouse world of the future. The …

Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years

S Rahmstorf - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Oceans cover more than two-thirds of our blue planet. The waters move in a global
circulation system, driven by subtle density differences and transporting huge amounts of …

Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

PU Clark, JD Shakun, PA Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Deciphering the evolution of global climate from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum
approximately 19 ka to the early Holocene 11 ka presents an outstanding opportunity for …

Variability of El Niño/Southern Oscillation activity at millennial timescales during the Holocene epoch

CM Moy, GO Seltzer, DT Rodbell, DM Anderson - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Abstract The variability of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) during the Holocene epoch,
in particular on millennial timescales, is poorly understood. Palaeoclimate studies have …

Rapid changes in the hydrologic cycle of the tropical Atlantic during the last glacial

LC Peterson, GH Haug, KA Hughen, U Rohl - Science, 2000 - science.org
Sedimentary time series of color reflectance and major element chemistry from the anoxic
Cariaco Basin off the coast of northern Venezuela record large and abrupt shifts in the …

Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model

A Ganopolski, S Rahmstorf - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Abrupt changes in climate, termed Dansgaard–Oeschger and Heinrich events, have
punctuated the last glacial period (∼ 100–10 kyr ago) but not the Holocene (the past 10 kyr) …

The role of the thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change

PU Clark, NG Pisias, TF Stocker, AJ Weaver - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
The possibility of a reduced Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to increases in
greenhouse-gas concentrations has been demonstrated in a number of simulations with …

Coherent high-and low-latitude climate variability during the Holocene warm period

P DeMenocal, J Ortiz, T Guilderson, M Sarnthein - Science, 2000 - science.org
A faunal record of sea-surface temperature (SST) variations off West Africa documents a
series of abrupt, millennial-scale cooling events, which punctuated the Holocene warm …

Water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks in the climate system

R Colman, BJ Soden - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas that dominates Earth's terrestrial radiation absorption. As
the planetary temperature warms, forced by increasing CO 2 and other greenhouse gases …

Centennial-Scale Holocene Climate Variability Revealed by a High-Resolution Speleothem δ18O Record from SW Ireland

F McDermott, DP Mattey, C Hawkesworth - Science, 2001 - science.org
Evaluating the significance of Holocene submillennial δ18O variability in the Greenland ice
cores is crucial for understanding how natural climate oscillations may modulate future …