History of sea ice in the Arctic

L Polyak, RB Alley, JT Andrews… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Arctic sea-ice extent and volume are declining rapidly. Several studies project that the Arctic
Ocean may become seasonally ice-free by the year 2040 or even earlier. Putting this into …

Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland

JP Briner, NP McKay, Y Axford, O Bennike… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
This synthesis paper summarizes published proxy climate evidence showing the spatial and
temporal pattern of climate change through the Holocene in Arctic Canada and Greenland …

[HTML][HTML] A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

D Kaufman, N McKay, C Routson, M Erb, B Davis… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into
the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of …

Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century

JP Briner, JK Cuzzone, JA Badgeley, NE Young… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) is losing mass at a high rate 1. Given the short-term
nature of the observational record, it is difficult to assess the historical importance of this …

Dinocyst-based reconstructions of sea ice cover concentration during the Holocene in the Arctic Ocean, the northern North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas

A de Vernal, C Hillaire-Marcel, A Rochon… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Sea ice cover extent expressed in terms of mean annual concentration was reconstructed
from the application of the modern analogue technique to dinocyst assemblages. The use of …

Holocene and latest Pleistocene climate and glacier fluctuations in Iceland

Á Geirsdóttir, GH Miller, Y Axford… - Quaternary Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Multiproxy climate records from Iceland document complex changes in terrestrial climate
and glacier fluctuations through the Holocene, revealing some coherent patterns of change …

Past warmth and its impacts during the Holocene thermal maximum in Greenland

Y Axford, A De Vernal… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Higher boreal summer insolation in the early to middle Holocene drove thousands of years
of summer warming across the Arctic. Modern-day warming has distinctly different causes …

Arctic Holocene proxy climate database–new approaches to assessing geochronological accuracy and encoding climate variables

HS Sundqvist, DS Kaufman, NP McKay… - Climate of the …, 2014 - cp.copernicus.org
We present a systematic compilation of previously published Holocene proxy climate
records from the Arctic. We identified 170 sites from north of 58° N latitude where proxy time …

Holocene environmental evolution of the SE Greenland Shelf North and South of the Denmark Strait: Irminger and East Greenland current interactions

A Jennings, J Andrews, L Wilson - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Holocene climatic and paleoceanographic development of the SE Greenland Shelf is
studied from cores MD99-2317 and MD99-2322, at sites north and south of the Denmark …

[HTML][HTML] Is there evidence for a 4.2 ka BP event in the northern North Atlantic region?

RS Bradley, J Bakke - Climate of the Past, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
We review paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic records from the northern North Atlantic to
assess the nature of climatic conditions at 4.2 ka BP, which has been identified as a time of …