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 …

Modification and preservation of environmental signals in speleothems

IJ Fairchild, CL Smith, A Baker, L Fuller, C Spötl… - Earth-Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
Speleothems are primarily studied in order to generate archives of climatic change and
results have led to significant advances in identifying and dating major shifts in the climate …

[BUCH][B] The great transition

BMS Campbell - 2016 - books.google.com
In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes
in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange …

A new reconstruction of temperature variability in the extra‐tropical Northern Hemisphere during the last two millennia

FC Ljungqvist - Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
A new temperature reconstruction with decadal resolution, covering the last two millennia, is
presented for the extratropical Northern Hemisphere (90–30° N), utilizing many palaeo …

On the 'divergence problem'in northern forests: a review of the tree-ring evidence and possible causes

R D'Arrigo, R Wilson, B Liepert, P Cherubini - Global and planetary change, 2008 - Elsevier
An anomalous reduction in forest growth indices and temperature sensitivity has been
detected in tree-ring width and density records from many circumpolar northern latitude sites …

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 …

High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

PD Jones, KR Briffa, TJ Osborn, JM Lough… - The …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This review of late-Holocene palaeoclimatology represents the results from a
PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Panel meeting that took place in June 2006. The review is in …

The 'Little Ice Age': re‐evaluation of an evolving concept

JA Matthews, KR Briffa - Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This review focuses on the development of the 'Little Ice Age'as a glaciological and climatic
concept, and evaluates its current usefulness in the light of new data on the glacier and …

[HTML][HTML] Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

U Büntgen, D Arseneault, É Boucher, OV Churakova… - …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate reconstructions for the Common Era are compromised by the paucity of annually-
resolved and absolutely-dated proxy records prior to medieval times. Where reconstructions …

Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data

KJ Willis, RM Bailey, SA Bhagwat, HJB Birks - Trends in ecology & …, 2010 - cell.com
Fossil records are replete with examples of long-term biotic responses to past climate
change. One particularly useful set of records are those preserved in lake and marine …