Radionuclide wiggle matching reveals a nonsynchronous early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and western Europe around a grand solar minimum

Mekhaldi, Florian; Czymzik, Markus; Adolphi, Florian; Sjolte, Jesper; Björck, Svante; Aldahan, Ala; Brauer, Achim; Martin-Puertas, Celia; Possnert, Göran; Muscheler, Raimund

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1145-2020

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1145-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1145-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

Research article

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03 Jul 2020

Research article |

| 03 Jul 2020

Radionuclide wiggle matching reveals a nonsynchronous early Holocene climate oscillation in Greenland and western Europe around a grand solar minimum

Florian Mekhaldi, Markus Czymzik, Florian Adolphi, Jesper Sjolte, Svante Björck, Ala Aldahan, Achim Brauer, Celia Martin-Puertas, Göran Possnert, and Raimund Muscheler

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1145-2020-supplement

Data sets

10Be concentrations from lake Meerfelder Maar during the earliest part of the Holocene F. Mekhaldi https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.907808

Short summary

Due to chronology uncertainties within paleoclimate archives, it is unclear how climate oscillations from different records relate to one another. By using radionuclides to synchronize Greenland ice cores and a German lake record over 11 000 years, we show that two oscillations observed in these records were not synchronous but terminated and began with the onset of a grand solar minimum. Both this and changes in ocean circulation could have played a role in the two climate oscillations.