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High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years

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ID23324853
AuthorsJørgen Peder Steffensen (0000-0002-5516-1093, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), K K Andersen (0000-0003-4178-2195, University of Copenhagen), Matthias Bigler (0000-0003-0184-4013, University of Copenhagen), Henrik B Clausen (University of Copenhagen), Henrik Clausen (0000-0002-0915-5055, University of Copenhagen), Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (University of Copenhagen), Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen (0000-0002-1474-1948, University of Copenhagen), Hubertus Fischer (0000-0002-2787-4221, University of Copenhagen), Kumiko Goto‐Azuma (0000-0003-0992-1079, University of Copenhagen), Kumiko Goto-Azuma (University of Copenhagen), Margareta Hansson (0000-0002-0168-9968, University of Copenhagen), Sara Johnsen (0000-0002-8522-4235, University of Copenhagen), Sigfús J Johnsen (University of Copenhagen), Jean Jouzel (University of Copenhagen), Valérie Masson‐delmotte (0000-0001-8296-381X, University of Copenhagen), Valerie Masson-Delmotte (University of Copenhagen), Trevor Popp (University of Copenhagen), Sune O Rasmussen (0000-0002-4177-3611, University of Copenhagen), Regine Röthlisberger (University of Copenhagen), Urs Ruth (University of Copenhagen), Bernhard Stauffer (University of Copenhagen), Marie-Louise Siggaard-Andersen (0000-0001-8986-1920, University of Copenhagen), Árný E Sveinbjörnsdóttir (University of Copenhagen), Andreas Svensson (0000-0002-4364-6085, University of Copenhagen), Anders Svensson (0000-0001-7479-8092, University of Copenhagen), James W C White (0000-0001-6041-4684, University of Copenhagen)
Year2008
Volume321
Issue5889
Pages680-684
Publication date2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-8075 • E-ISSN: 0193-4511
PublisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1126/science.1157707
PMID18566247
OpenAlexW2051962101
LanguageEN
Citations received85
References cited30

The last two abrupt warmings at the onset of our present warm interglacial period, interrupted by the Younger Dryas cooling event, were investigated at high temporal resolution from the North Greenland Ice Core Project ice core. The deuterium excess, a proxy of Greenland precipitation moisture source, switched mode within 1 to 3 years over these transitions and initiated a more gradual change (over 50 years) of the Greenland air temperature, as recorded by stable water isotopes. The onsets of both abrupt Greenland warmings were slightly preceded by decreasing Greenland dust deposition, reflecting the wetting of Asian deserts. A northern shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone could be the trigger of these abrupt shifts of Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation, resulting in changes of 2 to 4 kelvin in Greenland moisture source temperature from one year to the next.

Abrupt climate change · Atmospheric sciences · Climate change · Climatology · Effects of global warming · Geography · Geomorphology · Glacial period · Global warming · Greenland ice sheet · Groenlandia · Ice core · Ice sheet · Interglacial · Intertropical Convergence Zone · Meteorology · Northern Hemisphere · Paleoclimatology · Precipitation · Younger Dryas · Cryospheric studies and observations · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Oceanography

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