Variations in speleothem oxygen-isotope values (δ18O) result from a complicated interplay
of environmental controls and processes in the ocean, atmosphere, soil zone, epikarst, and …

Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) recorded by alkenones and oxygen isotopes in the
Alboran basin are used here to describe, at an unprecedented fine temporal resolution, the …

Palaeoclimate data show that the Earth's climate is remarkably sensitive to global forcings.
Positive feedbacks predominate. This allows the entire planet to be whipsawed between …

Abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period have been detected in a global array of
palaeoclimate records, but our understanding of their absolute timing and regional …

Considerable ambiguity remains over the extent and nature of millennial/centennial-scale
climate instability during the Last Interglacial (LIG). Here we analyse marine and terrestrial …

Paleoclimate observations constitute the only constraint on climate behavior prior to the
instrumental era. However, such observations only provide indirect (proxy) constraints on …

Most proxy records used for reconstruction of Holocene climate of Amazonia are unable to
quantitatively distinguish between the effect of temperature and rainfall amounts. We present …

Abstract The Last Interglacial (LIG) represents an invaluable case study to investigate the
response of components of the Earth system to global warming. However, the scarcity of …

Variations in the intensity of high-latitude Northern Hemisphere summer insolation, driven
largely by precession of the equinoxes, are widely thought to control the timing of Late …

Earth's climate has progressively cooled over the past 3 million years with a concomitant
expansion of continental ice volume. This global trend towards increasingly severe and …