Greenland ice-core records provide an exceptionally clear picture of many aspects of abrupt
climate changes, and particularly of those associated with the Younger Dryas event, as …

Knowledge of the state of the earth at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, an interval around
21,000 years ago) is an important benchmark for understanding the sensitivity of global …

Water-stable isotopes in polar ice cores are a widely used temperature proxy in
paleoclimate reconstruction, yet calibration remains challenging in East Antarctica. Here, we …

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 …

Two deep ice cores from central Greenland, drilled in the 1990s, have played a key role in
climate reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere, but the oldest sections of the cores …

The most prominent Holocene climatic event in Greenland ice-core proxies, with
approximately half the amplitude of the Younger Dryas, occurred∼ 8000 to 8400 yr ago …

The objectives of this synthesis are (1) to review the factors that influence the ecological,
geographical, and palaeoecological distributions of plants possessing C 4 photosynthesis …

In order to reconstruct the temperature of the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) site,
new measurements of δ 15 N have been performed covering the time period from the …

The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

A prominent, abrupt climate event about 8200 years ago brought generally cold and dry
conditions to broad northern-hemisphere regions especially in wintertime, in response to a …