The role of dust in climate changes today, at the last glacial maximum and in the future

SP Harrison, KE Kohfeld, C Roelandt, T Claquin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2001 - Elsevier
Natural mineral aerosol (dust) is an active component of the climate system and plays
multiple roles in mediating physical and biogeochemical exchanges between the …

Modern pollen distributions in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the development of transfer functions for reconstructing Holocene environmental changes

H Lu, N Wu, K Liu, L Zhu, X Yang, T Yao… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
This study investigates the distribution of modern pollen assemblages in the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau, China, based on surface soil samples collected at 1202 sites along an …

[PDF][PDF] Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative climate reconstructions based on late-Quaternary biological proxies

HJB Birks, O Heiri, H Seppä, AE Bjune - Open Ecology Journal, 2011 - boris.unibe.ch
The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is
reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data …

Arctic Ocean deep-sea record of northern Eurasian ice sheet history

RF Spielhagen, KH Baumann, H Erlenkeuser… - Quaternary Science …, 2004 - Elsevier
The sediment composition of deep-sea cores from the central Arctic Ocean, the Fram Strait,
and the Yermak Plateau was analyzed for several parameters to reconstruct the history of …

Phytoliths as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in China I: phytolith-based transfer functions

HY Lu, NQ Wu, XD Yang, H Jiang, K Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
This study investigated the distribution of phytolith assemblages in China from surface soil
samples at 243 sites along significant ecological and climatic gradients to develop transfer …

Rapid climatic variability in the west Mediterranean during the last 25 000 years from high resolution pollen data

N Combourieu Nebout, O Peyron, I Dormoy… - Climate of the …, 2009 - cp.copernicus.org
High-temporal resolution pollen record from the Alboran Sea ODP Site 976, pollen-based
quantitative climate reconstruction and biomisation show that changes of Mediterranean …

The periglacial climate and environment in northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation

HW Hubberten, A Andreev, VI Astakhov… - Quaternary Science …, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes the results of studies of the Late Weichselian periglacial
environments carried out in key areas of northern Eurasia by several QUEEN teams …

How well can we simulate past climates? Evaluating the models using global palaeoenvironmental datasets

KE Kohfeld, SP Harrison - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2000 - Elsevier
Global syntheses of palaeoenvironmental data are required to test climate models under
conditions different from the present. Data sets for this purpose contain data from spatially …

Climatic changes in Eurasia and Africa at the last glacial maximum and mid-Holocene: reconstruction from pollen data using inverse vegetation modelling

H Wu, J Guiot, S Brewer, Z Guo - Climate Dynamics, 2007 - Springer
In order to improve the reliability of climate reconstruction, especially the climatologies
outside the modern observed climate space, an improved inverse vegetation model using a …

Quantitative pollen-based climate reconstruction in central Japan: application to surface and Late Quaternary spectra

T Nakagawa, PE Tarasov, K Nishida, K Gotanda… - Quaternary Science …, 2002 - Elsevier
Climate reconstruction in Japan by the best modern analogues method was tested with 285
surface pollen spectra, and then applied to the 47,000 years pollen profile from Lake Mikata …