Abrupt climate change

RB Alley, J Marotzke, WD Nordhaus, JT Overpeck… - science, 2003 - science.org
Large, abrupt, and widespread climate changes with major impacts have occurred
repeatedly in the past, when the Earth system was forced across thresholds. Although abrupt …
V Brovkin, E Brook, JW Williams, S Bathiany… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The geological record shows that abrupt changes in the Earth system can occur on
timescales short enough to challenge the capacity of human societies to adapt to …

[BOOK][B] The little ice age

JM Grove - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
The evidence for the Little Ice Age, the most important fluctuation in global climate in
historical times, is most dramatically represented by the advance of mountain glaciers in the …

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

MG Turner, WJ Calder… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecologists have long studied patterns, directions and tempos of change, but there is a
pressing need to extend current understanding to empirical observations of abrupt changes …

[PDF][PDF] Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services

A Fischlin, GF Midgley, L Hughs… - Climate change …, 2007 - researchers.mq.edu.au
Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services Page 1 Ecosystems, their properties, goods
and services Coordinating Lead Authors: Andreas Fischlin (Switzerland), Guy F. Midgley …

The 8k event: cause and consequences of a major Holocene abrupt climate change

RB Alley, AM Ágústsdóttir - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: a global synthesis

PJ Bartlein, SP Harrison, S Brewer, S Connor… - Climate Dynamics, 2011 - Springer
Subfossil pollen and plant macrofossil data derived from 14 C-dated sediment profiles can
provide quantitative information on glacial and interglacial climates. The data allow climate …

Evidence of Lateglacial and Holocene climatic change and human impact in eastern Anatolia: high-resolution pollen, charcoal, isotopic and geochemical records from …

L Wick, G Lemcke, M Sturm - The holocene, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Annually laminated sediments from Lake Van, spanning about 13000 varve years, were
sampled for stable-isotopic, geochemical, pollen and charcoal analyses in order to find …

Late‐Quaternary vegetation dynamics in North America: scaling from taxa to biomes

JW Williams, BN Shuman, T Webb III… - Ecological …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This paper integrates recent efforts to map the distribution of biomes for the late Quaternary
with the detailed evidence that plant species have responded individualistically to climate …