Pollen-based climatic reconstructions for the interglacial analogues of MIS 1 (MIS 19, 11, and 5) in the southwestern Mediterranean: insights from ODP Site 976

Sassoon, Dael; Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie; Peyron, Odile; Bertini, Adele; Toti, Francesco; Lebreton, Vincent; Moncel, Marie-Hélène

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-489-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-489-2025

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18 Feb 2025

Research article |

| 18 Feb 2025

Pollen-based climatic reconstructions for the interglacial analogues of MIS 1 (MIS 19, 11, and 5) in the southwestern Mediterranean: insights from ODP Site 976

Dael Sassoon, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Odile Peyron, Adele Bertini, Francesco Toti, Vincent Lebreton, and Marie-Hélène Moncel

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-489-2025-supplement

Data sets

Pollen-based climatic reconstructions for the interglacial analogues of MIS 1 (MIS 19, 11 and 5) in the Southwestern Mediterranean: insights from ODP Site 976 D. Sassoon et al. https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/m4kzgwk6b9/2

Pollen composition of sediment cores from ODP site 161-976 F. Toti et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.923093

Short summary

Climatic reconstructions of Marine Isotope Stages (MISs) 19, 11, and 5 and the current interglacial (MIS 1) based on pollen data from a marine core (Alboran Sea) show that, compared with MIS 1, MIS 19 was colder and highly variable, MIS 11 was longer and more stable, and MIS 5 was warmer. There is no real equivalent to the current interglacial, but past interglacials give insights into the sensitivity of the southwestern Mediterranean to global climatic changes in conditions similar to MIS 1.