Showing papers in "Quaternary Science Reviews in 2016"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a new reconstruction of the deglaciation of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet, in the form of calendar-year time-slices, which are particularly useful for ice sheet modelling.
455 citations
Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory1, University of St Andrews2, University of Arizona3, University of East Anglia4, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research5, William Paterson University6, University of Mainz7, Stockholm University8, University of Edinburgh9, University of Gothenburg10, Siberian Federal University11, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague12, College of Wooster13
TL;DR: Anchukaitis et al. as discussed by the authors presented the latest tree-ring-based NH land air temperature reconstruction from a temporal and spatial perspective, N-TREND2015 is relatively insensitive to the compositing method and spatial weighting used and validation metrics indicate that the new record portrays reasonable coherence with large scale summer temperatures and is robust at all time-scales from 918 to 2004 where at least 3 TR records exist from each major continental mass.
317 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of measurements of climatically sensitive magnetic properties and soil color from four well-dated loess-paleosol sequences from the northern slopes of the Tienshan Mountains and the Yili River valley, Xinjiang, China, in the core area of arid central Asia (ACA) were presented.
239 citations
TL;DR: The magnetic properties of the windblown loess units and interbedded palaeosols of the famous Chinese Loess Plateau provide key palaeo-precipitation data for this populous, monsoon-dominated region as discussed by the authors.
212 citations
TL;DR: The Mexican Drought Atlas (MXDA) as mentioned in this paper provides a new spatial perspective on the historical impacts of moisture extremes over Mexico during the past 600-years, including the Aztec Drought of One Rabbit in 1454, the drought of El Ano de Hambre in 1785-1786, and the drought that preceded the Mexican Revolution of 1909-1910.
186 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical basis for application of stable isotope mass balance of lakes is described for a range of climatic situations including low latitude, high latitude high altitude, continental and coastal systems, as well as cases where the atmospheric boundary layer is significantly modified by the lake evaporation process.
170 citations
University of Massachusetts Amherst1, University of Paris2, University of Iceland3, Northern Arizona University4, Brandon University5, National Scientific and Technical Research Council6, University of Colorado Boulder7, University of Bergen8, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research9, University of Innsbruck10, University of Cincinnati11, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory12, University of Maine13, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research14, College of Wooster15, Chinese Academy of Sciences16
TL;DR: A global compilation of glacier advances and retreats for the past two millennia grouped by 17 regions (excluding Antarctica) highlights the nature of glacier fluctuations during the late Holocene as mentioned in this paper.
169 citations
University at Buffalo1, Northern Arizona University2, Northwestern University3, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland4, University of Massachusetts Amherst5, Université du Québec à Montréal6, University of Ottawa7, Institut national de la recherche scientifique8, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research9, University of Cologne10
TL;DR: In this article, a synthesis of existing literature on Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland is presented, showing that the warmest-to-coldest millennium temperature change in the Holocene is 3.0 ± 1.0°C.
161 citations
TL;DR: The research in this article is part of the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, and was supported by the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme (grant======223259), the PetroMaks project “Glaciations in the Barents Sea area======(GlaciBar)” (grants 200672), and a Stockholm Uni SUCLIM consortium============€ 1.5€ 1€ 1 € 1.1€ 2€ 3 € 1€ 3€ 1
147 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of Holocene palaeoclimatic records have been obtained from sediment cores from Lake Qinghai and from various other geological archives in the surrounding area of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, in order to reconstruct changes in moisture patterns and possible summer monsoon evolution in the area during the Holocene.
136 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new geochemical and ice-volume-corrected planktonic foraminiferal stable isotope records for sapropels S1 (Holocene), S3, S4, and S5 (Marine Isotope Stage 5) in core LC21 from the southern Aegean Sea.
TL;DR: This paper reviews the identification of traits produced by predators on arvicolins, murins and soricids using a method that may be used equally by taxonomists and taphonomists, and aims to provide the “tools” for taxonomicists to identify the predator based on their methodology.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a global and internally consistent database of Usingle bondTh dated fossil coral sea-level indicators, including full consideration of all known uncertainties (both vertical and chronological).
Northern Arizona University1, Northwestern University2, Newcastle University3, Emerson College4, University of Washington5, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign6, University of Ottawa7, United States Geological Survey8, Lehigh University9, Mount Holyoke College10, University of Alaska Fairbanks11
TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes available information from diverse Holocene paleoenvironmental records across eastern Beringia (Alaska, westernmost Canada and adjacent seas), and quantifies the primary trends of temperature and moisture-sensitive records based in part on midges, pollen, and biogeochemical indicators.
TL;DR: In this paper, a global compilation of 57 lacustrine dual carbon and oxygen stable isotope records with a topical focus on the effects of shifting hydrologic balance on endogenic carbonate isotope compositions is presented.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the palaeoenvironmental setting for hominin dispersals between, and within, northeast Africa and southwest Asia during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 7-5 using reconstructions of surface freshwater availability as an environmental proxy.
University of East Anglia1, University of Toronto2, University of Manchester3, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut4, University of Milan5, Sapienza University of Rome6, King's College London7, University of Sassari8, Cornell University9, University of Utah10, Durham University11, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev12, University of Edinburgh13, University of Cologne14
TL;DR: This article explored the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and eastern and central Sahara) during the ‘long’ 4th millennium (∼4500-3000) BC.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new geochemical data which provide insight to the provenance of dune sands in the Badain Jaran Desert, northwestern China, an important part of this desert belt.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a thorough assessment of available, quality-checked radiocarbon (14C) dates for sites from Southwest Asia covering the time interval between 9500 and 7500 cal BP, which interpret in combination with archaeological evidence.
TL;DR: Comparison to test sets showed that taxonomic resolution did not impair model performance and that the new pan-European model can therefore be used as an effective tool for palaeohydrological reconstruction, and substantiated recent advice that model outputs should be standardised and presented as residual values in order to focus interpretation on secure directional shifts.
TL;DR: In this article, archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and palaeoclimatic data from the Peloponnese in Greece are compiled, discussed and evaluated in order to analyse the interactions between humans and the environment over the last 9000 years.
TL;DR: A sequence of long-term and rapid changes during the Holocene appears in a network of 40 well-resolved paleoclimate datasets from mid-latitude North America, including records of pollen-inferred temperatures, alkenone-derived sea-surface temperatures (SSTs), lake-level changes, dust accumulation, and lake isotopes from Idaho to Maine.
TL;DR: A recent review as discussed by the authors highlights the importance of modern high-resolution and interdisciplinary studies of lake sediments, in order to better understand the complex relationships between humans, climate and the Earth system in general.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report chronological constraints on the onset of deglaciation in two different study areas from the Western and Eastern Alps: the Mont Blanc (Italy) and Zillertal Alps (Austria).
TL;DR: This paper examined the evidence for climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean for the period 200-800 AD and offered hypotheses on the role of climatic fluctuations in the societal developments that occurred in this region at the end of Antiquity.
TL;DR: It is found that significant shifts in human diets were closely associated with intercontinental cultural exchanges in Eurasia and climate change in northwestern China, and climate may have been a key factor in Gansu and Qinghai.
Jagiellonian University1, Stockholm University2, Uppsala University3, University of Cincinnati4, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research5, Brunel University London6, University of Giessen7, Spanish National Research Council8, Sapienza University of Rome9, University of California, San Diego10, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University11, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens12
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic changes in the Mediterranean basin.
TL;DR: In this paper, the distribution of Pleistocene loess and derived loess derivates along the mountain front of the Central European Mountain Belt in northern and central Germany is investigated.
TL;DR: In this paper, stalagmite oxygen isotope ratios show no significant variation across the carbon isotope excursion, demonstrating that the landscape transformation was not related to changes in precipitation, and implies that forest loss was one trigger of megafaunal extinction.
TL;DR: In this article, the final retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet with 10 Be surface exposure ages for the Labrador Dome, the largest of the remnant Laurentide ice domes during the Holocene, was investigated.