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 …

Global monsoon dynamics and climate change

A Zhisheng, W Guoxiong, L Jian**… - Annual review of …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
This article provides a comprehensive review of the global monsoon that encompasses
findings from studies of both modern monsoons and paleomonsoons. We introduce a …

Atmospheric CO2 control of spontaneous millennial-scale ice age climate oscillations

G Vettoretti, P Ditlevsen, M Jochum… - Nature geoscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
Last Glacial millennial-scale climate variability transitioned through distinct cold stadial and
warm interstadial states. Here we use Earth system model simulations to demonstrate that …

Millennial-and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years

Y Wang, H Cheng, RL Edwards, X Kong, X Shao… - nature, 2008‏ - nature.com
High-resolution speleothem records from China have provided insights into the factors that
control the strength of the East Asian monsoon,,,. Our understanding of these factors …

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Past Interglacials Working Group of … - Reviews of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high
sea level), end‐members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we identify …

800,000 years of abrupt climate variability

S Barker, G Knorr, RL Edwards, F Parrenin, AE Putnam… - science, 2011‏ - science.org
We constructed an 800,000-year synthetic record of Greenland climate variability based on
the thermal bipolar seesaw model. Our Greenland analog reproduces much of the variability …

Rapid oceanic and atmospheric changes during the Younger Dryas cold period

J Bakke, Ø Lie, E Heegaard, T Dokken, GH Haug… - Nature …, 2009‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Younger Dryas event, which began approximately 12,900 years ago, was a
period of rapid cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, driven by large-scale reorganizations of …

A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic

D Hodell, S Crowhurst, L Lourens… - Climate of the Past …, 2022‏ - cp.copernicus.org
Climate during the last glacial period was marked by abrupt instability on millennial
timescales that included large swings of temperature in and around Greenland (Daansgard …

Climatic fluctuations and early farming in West and East Asia

O Bar-Yosef - Current Anthropology, 2011‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper presents a Levantine model for the origins of cultivation of various wild plants as
motivated by the vagaries of the climatic fluctuation of the Younger Dryas within the context …

Millennial scale feedbacks determine the shape and rapidity of glacial termination

S Barker, G Knorr - Nature Communications, 2021‏ - nature.com
Abstract Within the Late Pleistocene, terminations describe the major transitions marking the
end of glacial cycles. While it is established that abrupt shifts in the ocean/atmosphere …