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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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Expansion of alpine glaciers in Pacific North America in the first millennium A.D

TL;DR: Radiocarbon ages and lichen-dated moraines from 17 glaciers in coastal and near- coastal British Columbia and Alaska document a widespread glacier advance during the first millennium A.D. as discussed by the authors.
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Climatic and local effects on stalagmite δ13C values at Lianhua Cave, China

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a continuous decadal-scale δ 13 C record (819 measurements) of the mid- to late-Holocene from a precisely-dated aragonite stalagmite from Lianhua Cave, Hunan Province, China.
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Holocene climate variations in the Altai Mountains and the surrounding areas: A synthesis of pollen records

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial and temporal variations in temperature and in aridity that occurred during the Holocene in the Altai Mountains and the surrounding areas were reconstructed based on 30 sequences reviewed here.
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Climate change and coastal hydrographic response along the Atlantic Iberian margin (Tagus Prodelta and Muros Ría) during the last two millennia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the climatic conditions of two areas over the last two millennia based on proxies of temperature (sea surface temperatures and oxygen isotopes), continental input (grain size, iron and magnetic susceptibility) and productivity (inorganic and organic carbon, carbon isotopes, benthic foraminifera and diatoms).
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Climate variability and the influence of the Sun

TL;DR: Evidence for such an influence is difficult to obtain and mechanisms by which the solar signal might be amplified remain uncertain, but reports by [ Bond et al .][2], who show that millennial-scale climate fluctuations in the Atlantic bear a solar signal, and by [ Shindell et al ].
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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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