Mechanisms of abrupt climate change of the last glacial period

AC Clement, LC Peterson - Reviews of Geophysics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
More than a decade ago, ice core records from Greenland revealed that the last glacial
period was characterized by abrupt climate changes that recurred on millennial time scales …

The influence of a weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO

A Timmermann, Y Okumura, SI An… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The influences of a substantial weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
(AMOC) on the tropical Pacific climate mean state, the annual cycle, and ENSO variability …

Active North Atlantic deepwater formation during Heinrich Stadial 1

J Repschläger, N Zhao, D Rand, L Lisiecki… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Deepwater circulation significantly changed during the last deglaciation from a shallow to a
deep-reaching overturning cell. This change went along with a drawdown of isotopically …

Role of the Bering Strait on the hysteresis of the ocean conveyor belt circulation and glacial climate stability

A Hu, GA Meehl, W Han, A Timmermann… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
Abrupt climate transitions, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events, occurred
frequently during the last glacial period, specifically from 80–11 thousand years before …

Last century warming over the Canadian Atlantic shelves linked to weak Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

B Thibodeau, C Not, J Zhu, A Schmittner… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a key component of the global
climate system. Recent studies suggested a twentieth‐century weakening of the AMOC of …

Tropical air–sea interactions accelerate the recovery of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation after a major shutdown

U Krebs, A Timmermann - Journal of Climate, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Using a coupled ocean–sea ice–atmosphere model of intermediate complexity, the authors
study the influence of air–sea interactions on the stability of the Atlantic Meridional …

Florida Straits deglacial temperature and salinity change: Implications for tropical hydrologic cycle variability during the Younger Dryas

MW Schmidt, J Lynch‐Stieglitz - Paleoceanography, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The prevailing paradigm of abrupt climate change holds that rapid shifts associated with the
most extreme climate swings of the last glacial cycle were forced by changes in the strength …

Prolonged heavy snowfall during the Younger Dryas

L Wang, WY Jiang, DB Jiang, YF Zou… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Snowfall is an important component of Earth's climate system; however, long, continuous
high‐resolution records of global snowfall are lacking because of the absence of suitable …

Response of thermohaline circulation to freshwater forcing under present-day and LGM conditions

A Hu, BL Otto-Bliesner, GA Meehl, W Han… - Journal of …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Responses of the thermohaline circulation (THC) to freshwater forcing (hosing) in the
subpolar North Atlantic Ocean under present-day and the last glacial maximum (LGM) …

Response of the subtropical North Atlantic surface hydrography on deglacial and Holocene AMOC changes

J Repschläger, M Weinelt, H Kinkel… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The North Atlantic subtropical gyre (STG) circulates warm waters between 10 and
40° N and is a potential area of heat storage during periods of reduced North Atlantic …