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Pollen-based temperature and precipitation changes in the Ohrid Basin (western Balkans) between 160 and 70 ka
Gaia Sinopoli
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza University of Rome,
Rome, Italy
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza University of Rome,
Rome, Italy
Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, University of
Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
Odile Peyron
Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, University of
Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza University of Rome,
Rome, Italy
Jens Holtvoeth
Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol,
Bristol, UK
Alexander Francke
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne,
Germany
Wollongong Isotope Geochronology Laboratory, School of Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Bernd Wagner
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne,
Germany
Laura Sadori
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza University of Rome,
Rome, Italy
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Subject: Climate Modelling | Archive: Terrestrial Archives | Timescale: Pleistocene
Simultaneous seasonal dry/wet signals in eastern and central Asia since the Last Glacial Maximum
Seasonal aridity in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the Late Glacial driven by El Niño-like conditions
crestr: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets
A new perspective on permafrost boundaries in France during the Last Glacial Maximum
The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations
Greenland Ice Sheet influence on Last Interglacial climate: global sensitivity studies performed with an atmosphere–ocean general circulation model
Coupled Northern Hemisphere permafrost–ice-sheet evolution over the last glacial cycle
Simin Peng, Yu Li, Zhansen Zhang, Mingjun Gao, Xiaowen Chen, Junjie Duan, and Yaxin Xue
Clim. Past, 20, 2415–2429, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2415-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2415-2024, 2024
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The simultaneity of rain and heat is an important hypothesis containing the summer and winter precipitation regimes. In this paper, eastern and part of central Asia (EA and CA) with a summer precipitation regime are selected to study the dry/wet status on multiple timescales since the Last Glacial Maximum. We found that although climate difference in EA and CA universally exists, climate linkages in EA and part of CA with a summer precipitation regime can be uncovered.
Petter L. Hällberg, Frederik Schenk, Kweku A. Yamoah, Xueyuen Kuang, and Rienk H. Smittenberg
Clim. Past, 18, 1655–1674, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1655-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1655-2022, 2022
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Using climate model simulations, we find that SE Asian tropical climate was strongly seasonal under Late Glacial conditions. During Northern Hemisphere winters, it was highly arid in this region that is today humid year-round. The seasonal aridity was driven by orbital forcing and stronger East Asian winter monsoon. A breakdown of deep convection caused a reorganized Walker Circulation and a mean state resembling El Niño conditions.
Manuel Chevalier
Clim. Past, 18, 821–844, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-821-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-821-2022, 2022
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This paper introduces a new R package to perform quantitative climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets. The package includes calibration data for several commonly used terrestrial (e.g. pollen) and marine (e.g. foraminifers) climate proxies to enable its use in various environments globally. In addition, the built-in graphical diagnostic tools simplify the evaluation and interpretations of the results. No coding skills are required to use crestr.
Kim H. Stadelmaier, Patrick Ludwig, Pascal Bertran, Pierre Antoine, Xiaoxu Shi, Gerrit Lohmann, and Joaquim G. Pinto
Clim. Past, 17, 2559–2576, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2559-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2559-2021, 2021
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We use regional climate simulations for the Last Glacial Maximum to reconstruct permafrost and to identify areas of thermal contraction cracking of the ground in western Europe. We find ground cracking, a precondition for the development of permafrost proxies, south of the probable permafrost border, implying that permafrost was not the limiting factor for proxy development. A good agreement with permafrost and climate proxy data is achieved when easterly winds are modelled more frequently.
Masa Kageyama, Sandy P. Harrison, Marie-L. Kapsch, Marcus Lofverstrom, Juan M. Lora, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Sam Sherriff-Tadano, Tristan Vadsaria, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Nathaelle Bouttes, Deepak Chandan, Lauren J. Gregoire, Ruza F. Ivanovic, Kenji Izumi, Allegra N. LeGrande, Fanny Lhardy, Gerrit Lohmann, Polina A. Morozova, Rumi Ohgaito, André Paul, W. Richard Peltier, Christopher J. Poulsen, Aurélien Quiquet, Didier M. Roche, Xiaoxu Shi, Jessica E. Tierney, Paul J. Valdes, Evgeny Volodin, and Jiang Zhu
Clim. Past, 17, 1065–1089, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1065-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1065-2021, 2021
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The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ~21 000 years ago) is a major focus for evaluating how well climate models simulate climate changes as large as those expected in the future. Here, we compare the latest climate model (CMIP6-PMIP4) to the previous one (CMIP5-PMIP3) and to reconstructions. Large-scale climate features (e.g. land–sea contrast, polar amplification) are well captured by all models, while regional changes (e.g. winter extratropical cooling, precipitations) are still poorly represented.
Madlene Pfeiffer and Gerrit Lohmann
Clim. Past, 12, 1313–1338, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1313-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1313-2016, 2016
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The Last Interglacial was warmer, with a reduced Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS), compared to the late Holocene. We analyse – through climate model simulations – the impact of a reduced GIS on the global surface air temperature and find a relatively strong warming especially in the Northern Hemisphere. These results are then compared to temperature reconstructions, indicating good agreement with respect to the pattern. However, the simulated temperatures underestimate the proxy-based temperatures.
M. Willeit and A. Ganopolski
Clim. Past, 11, 1165–1180, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1165-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1165-2015, 2015
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In this paper we explore the permafrost–ice-sheet interaction using the fully coupled climate–ice-sheet model CLIMBER-2 with the addition of a newly developed permafrost module. We find that permafrost has a moderate but significant effect on ice sheet dynamics during the last glacial cycle. In particular at the Last Glacial Maximum the inclusion of permafrost leads to a 15m sea level equivalent increase in Northern Hemisphere ice volume when permafrost is included.
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Short summary
Climate changes occur today as they occurred in the past. This study deals with climate changes reconstructed at Lake Ohrid (Albania and FYROM) between 160 000 and 70 000 years ago. Climate reconstruction, based on a high-resolution pollen study, provides quantitative estimates of past temperature and precipitation. Our data show an alternation of cold/dry and warm/wet periods. The last interglacial appears to be characterized by temperatures higher than nowadays.
Climate changes occur today as they occurred in the past. This study deals with climate changes...
