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Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene

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A solar forcing mechanism therefore may underlie at least the Holocene segment of the North Atlantic's “1500-year” cycle, potentially providing an additional mechanism for amplifying the solar signals and transmitting them globally.
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Surface winds and surface ocean hydrography in the subpolar North Atlantic appear to have been influenced by variations in solar output through the entire Holocene. The evidence comes from a close correlation between inferred changes in production rates of the cosmogenic nuclides carbon-14 and beryllium-10 and centennial to millennial time scale changes in proxies of drift ice measured in deep-sea sediment cores. A solar forcing mechanism therefore may underlie at least the Holocene segment of the North Atlantic's "1500-year" cycle. The surface hydrographic changes may have affected production of North Atlantic Deep Water, potentially providing an additional mechanism for amplifying the solar signals and transmitting them globally.

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Holocene oscillations in temperature and salinity of the surface subpolar North Atlantic

TL;DR: This paper investigated the temperature and salinity changes of a substantial surface inflow to a region of deepwater formation throughout the Holocene and found that the inflow has undergone millennial-scale variations in temperature, most probably controlled by subpolar gyre dynamics.
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Inverse phase oscillations between the East Asian and Indian Ocean summer monsoons during the last 12 000 years and paleo-El Niño

TL;DR: In this article, the inverse phase variations between the East Asian and Indian Ocean summer monsoons on the interannual timescale result from the El Nino-Southern Oscillation activity in the tropical Pacific, which provides a new way for studying paleo-ENSO.
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Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and 20th century temperature variability from Chesapeake Bay

TL;DR: Paleoclimate evidence for rapid (<100 years) shifts of f2-4 jC in Chesapeake Bay (CB) temperature f2100, 1600, 950, 650, 400 and 150 years before present (years BP) reconstructed from magnesium/calcium (Mg/Ca) paleothermometry is presented in this paper.
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Reconstruction of temperature in the Central Alps during the past 2000 yr from a δ18O stalagmite record

TL;DR: In this article, the precisely dated isotopic composition of a stalagmite from Spannagel Cave in the Central Alps is translated into a highly resolved record of temperature at high elevation during the past 2000 yr.
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Cyclic rapid warming on centennial‐scale revealed by a 2650‐year stalagmite record of warm season temperature

TL;DR: In this article, a 2650-year (BC665-AD1985) warm season (MJJA: May, June, July, August) temperature reconstruction is derived from a correlation between thickness variations in annual layers of a stalagmite from Shihua Cave, Beijing, China and instrumental meteorological records.
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Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages: Development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy

TL;DR: Using the concept of "orbital tuning", a continuous, high-resolution deep-sea chronostratigraphy has been developed spanning the last 300,000 yr as mentioned in this paper.
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A Pervasive Millennial-Scale Cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and Glacial Climates

TL;DR: In this paper, the North Atlantic deep sea cores reveal that abrupt shifts punctuated what is conventionally thought to have been a relatively stable Holocene climate, and they make up a series of climate shifts with a cyclicity close to 1470 ± 500 years, which is the most recent manifestation of a pervasive millennial-scale climate cycle operating independently of the glacial-interglacial climate state.
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Revised carbonate-water isotopic temperature scale

TL;DR: The relationship between temperature and O(18) content relative to that for a Cretaceous belemnite of the Pee Dee formation previously reported (Epstein, Buchsbaum, Lowenstam, and Urey, 1951) has been re-determined using modified procedures for removing organic matter from shells, and is found to be 16.5 - 4.3 δ + 0.14 δ^2
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Macintosh Program performs time‐series analysis

TL;DR: A Macintosh computer program that can perform many time-series analysis procedures is now available on the Internet free of charge, originally designed for paleoclimatic time series.
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Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago

TL;DR: The most prominent Holocene climatic event in Greenland ice-core proxies, with approximately half the amplitude of the Younger Dryas, occurred ∼8000 to 8400 yr ago.
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