Source-specific biomarkers as proxies for Arctic and Antarctic sea ice

ST Belt - Organic geochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last decade or so, certain source-specific C 25 highly branched isoprenoid (HBI)
lipid biomarkers have emerged as useful proxies for Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. Thus, IP 25 …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change

EL McClymont, H Mackay… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To reconstruct past environmental changes, a range of indirect or proxy approaches can be
applied to Quaternary archives. Here, we review the complementary and novel insights that …

Arctic Ocean sea ice cover during the penultimate glacial and the last interglacial

R Stein, K Fahl, P Gierz, F Niessen… - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Coinciding with global warming, Arctic sea ice has rapidly decreased during the last four
decades and climate scenarios suggest that sea ice may completely disappear during …

Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change

S Ribeiro, A Limoges, G Massé, KL Johansen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract High Arctic ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods are tightly linked and exposed
to climate change, yet assessing their sensitivity requires a long-term perspective. Here, we …

Group 2i Isochrysidales produce characteristic alkenones reflecting sea ice distribution

KJ Wang, Y Huang, M Majaneva, ST Belt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Alkenones are biomarkers produced solely by algae in the order Isochrysidales that have
been used to reconstruct sea surface temperature (SST) since the 1980s. However …

Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean

R Stein, K Fahl, M Schreck, G Knorr, F Niessen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Although the permanently to seasonally ice-covered Arctic Ocean is a unique and sensitive
component in the Earth's climate system, the knowledge of its long-term climate history …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: sea ice data compilation and model differences

M Kageyama, LC Sime, M Sicard, MV Guarino… - Climate of the …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
The Last Interglacial period (LIG) is a period with increased summer insolation at high
northern latitudes, which results in strong changes in the terrestrial and marine cryosphere …

Identification of C25 highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) alkenes in diatoms of the genus Rhizosolenia in polar and sub-polar marine phytoplankton

ST Belt, TA Brown, L Smik, A Tatarek, J Wiktor… - Organic …, 2017 - Elsevier
We report the identification of a range of C 25 highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) alkenes and
certain sterols in filtered phytoplankton samples obtained from western Svalbard (Arctic) and …

Semi-quantitative estimates of paleo Arctic sea ice concentration based on source-specific highly branched isoprenoid alkenes: A further development of the PIP25 …

L Smik, P Cabedo-Sanz, ST Belt - Organic Geochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Previously reported concentration data for highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) alkenes and the
sterol 24-methylcholesta-5, 22E-dien-3β-ol (brassicasterol or epi-brassicasterol) obtained …