Mid-to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

H Wanner, J Beer, J Bütikofer, TJ Crowley… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
The last 6000years are of particular interest to the understanding of the Earth System
because the boundary conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in …

Climate over past millennia

PD Jones, ME Mann - Reviews of Geophysics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We review evidence for climate change over the past several millennia from instrumental
and high‐resolution climate “proxy” data sources and climate modeling studies. We focus on …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2001: The scientific basis

JT Houghton - 2001 - billhowell.ca
This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum–Part 1: experiments and large-scale features

P Braconnot, B Otto-Bliesner, S Harrison… - Climate of the …, 2007 - cp.copernicus.org
A set of coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations using state of the art climate models is now
available for the Last Glacial Maximum and the Mid-Holocene through the second phase of …

Palaeoclimate

E Jansen, J Overpeck, KR Briffa, JC Duplessy… - Contribution of Working …, 2007 - hal.science
• The sustained rate of increase over the past century in the combined radiative forcing from
the three well-mixed greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous …

Quantification of Holocene Asian monsoon rainfall from spatially separated cave records

C Hu, GM Henderson, J Huang, S **e, Y Sun… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
A reconstruction of Holocene rainfall is presented for southwest China—an area prone to
drought and flooding due to variability in the East Asian monsoon. The reconstruction is …

Responses of plant populations and communities to environmental changes of the late Quaternary

ST Jackson, JT Overpeck - Paleobiology, 2000 - cambridge.org
The environmental and biotic history of the late Quaternary represents a critical junction
between ecology, global change studies, and pre-Quaternary paleobiology. Late Quaternary …

Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years

S Kröpelin, D Verschuren, AM Lézine, H Eggermont… - science, 2008 - science.org
Desiccation of the Sahara since the middle Holocene has eradicated all but a few natural
archives recording its transition from a “green Sahara” to the present hyperarid desert. Our …

[HTML][HTML] The greening of the Sahara: Past changes and future implications

FSR Pausata, M Gaetani, G Messori, A Berg… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
In the future, the Sahara and Sahelian regions could experience more rainfall than today as
a result of climate change. Wetter periods, termed African humid periods, occurred in the …

Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations

CM Brierley, A Zhao, SP Harrison, P Braconnot… - Climate of the …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
The mid-Holocene (6000 years ago) is a standard experiment for the evaluation of the
simulated response of global climate models using paleoclimate reconstructions. The latest …