The chironomid‐temperature relationship: expression in nature and palaeoenvironmental implications

H Eggermont, O Heiri - Biological Reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Fossils of chironomid larvae (non‐biting midges) preserved in lake sediments are well‐
established palaeotemperature indicators which, with the aid of numerical chironomid …

A 274-lake calibration data-set and inference model for chironomid-based summer air temperature reconstruction in Europe

O Heiri, SJ Brooks, HJB Birks, AF Lotter - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
A 274-lake calibration data-set for chironomid-based temperature reconstruction is
presented which is based on the taxonomic amalgamation of a 117-lake data-set from …

[PDF][PDF] Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative climate reconstructions based on late-Quaternary biological proxies

HJB Birks, O Heiri, H Seppä, AE Bjune - Open Ecology Journal, 2011 - boris.unibe.ch
The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is
reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data …

Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas

BR Rea, R Pellitero, M Spagnolo, P Hughes… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period of rapid climate cooling that occurred at the end of the
last glaciation. Here, we present the first palaeoglacier-derived reconstruction of YD …

Delayed hydrological response to Greenland cooling at the onset of the Younger Dryas in western Europe

O Rach, A Brauer, H Wilkes, D Sachse - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
The general warming trend of the last deglaciation was interrupted by the Younger Dryas, a
period of abrupt cooling and widespread environmental change,,,,,,,,,. Ice core records …

Deconstructing the Last Glacial termination: the role of millennial and orbital-scale forcings

L Menviel, A Timmermann, OE Timm… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Using an Earth system model of intermediate complexity forced by continuously varying
boundary conditions and a hypothetical profile of freshwater forcing, the model simulates …

A compilation of Western European terrestrial records 60–8 ka BP: towards an understanding of latitudinal climatic gradients

A Moreno, A Svensson, SJ Brooks, S Connor… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Terrestrial records of past climatic conditions, such as lake sediments and speleothems,
provide data of great importance for understanding environmental changes. However, unlike …

Terrestrial climate variability and seasonality changes in the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP deduced from marine pollen records

I Dormoy, O Peyron, N Combourieu Nebout… - Climate of the …, 2009 - cp.copernicus.org
Pollen-based climate reconstructions were performed on two high-resolution pollen marines
cores from the Alboran and Aegean Seas in order to unravel the climatic variability in the …

Transient climate simulations of the deglaciation 21–9 thousand years before present (version 1)–PMIP4 Core experiment design and boundary conditions

RF Ivanovic, LJ Gregoire, M Kageyama… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
The last deglaciation, which marked the transition between the last glacial and present
interglacial periods, was punctuated by a series of rapid (centennial and decadal) climate …

Late Pleistocene spread of (cool-) temperate forests in Northeast China and climate changes synchronous with the North Atlantic region

M Stebich, J Mingram, J Han, J Liu - Global and Planetary Change, 2009 - Elsevier
The results presented here from the annually laminated sedimentary sequence of
Sihailongwan lake provide the first comprehensive palaeoecological record covering the …