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25 Apr 2019
Research article |
| 25 Apr 2019
| 25 Apr 2019
Decadal-scale progression of the onset of Dansgaard–Oeschger warming events
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Emilie Capron
Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Tagensvej
16, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
Sune Olander Rasmussen
Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Tagensvej
16, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
Simon Schüpbach
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Matthias Bigler
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Florian Adolphi
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Quaternary Sciences, Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 22362 Lund, Sweden
Hubertus Fischer
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Short summary
The cause of the rapid warming events documented in proxy records across the Northern Hemisphere during the last glacial has been a long-standing puzzle in paleo-climate research. Here, we use high-resolution ice-core data from to cores in Greenland to investigate the progression during the onset of these events on multi-annual timescales to test their plausible triggers. We show that atmospheric circulation changes preceded the warming in Greenland and the collapse of the sea ice by a decade.
The cause of the rapid warming events documented in proxy records across the Northern Hemisphere...
