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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-607-2023
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Research article
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16 Mar 2023
Research article |
| 16 Mar 2023
| 16 Mar 2023
A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic
Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
Simon J. Crowhurst
Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
Lucas Lourens
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht
University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
Vasiliki Margari
Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography,
University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
John Nicolson
Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
James E. Rolfe
Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
Luke C. Skinner
Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
Nicola C. Thomas
Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
Polychronis C. Tzedakis
Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography,
University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Maryline J. Mleneck-Vautravers
Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
Eric W. Wolff
Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
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Short summary
We produced a 1.5-million-year-long history of climate change at International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1385 of the Iberian margin, a well-known location for rapidly accumulating sediments on the seafloor. Our record demonstrates that longer-term orbital changes in Earth's climate were persistently overprinted by abrupt millennial-to-centennial climate variability. The occurrence of abrupt climate change is modulated by the slower variations in Earth's orbit and climate background state.
We produced a 1.5-million-year-long history of climate change at International Ocean Discovery...
