Holocene palaeoclimate records over Europe and the North Atlantic

This Special Issue of The Holocene contains 16 research papers based on a symposium at the 11th International Meeting of the European Union of Geosciences held in Strasbourg in April 2001. The aim of the symposium was a state-of-the-art assessment of empirical studies of postglacial marine and terrestrial climatic archives and their integration with numerical climate models. This editorial places the individual papers in the broader context of natural climate variability and anthropogenic impacts on the global climate system, regional differences in climate between maritime and continental areas, and the need for an improved theoretical basis for understanding the underlying causes of environmental change. The focus of the Special Issue is the dynamic and relatively well-understood climate of the North Atlantic and the European realm, where, in relation to the steepest offshore temperature gradient on Earth, observational data are abundant and many recent advances have been made in climate reconstruction from proxy archives. The editorial also contains a summary and overview of the papers included in the four main sections of the Special Issue, which emphasize: (1) numerical modelling experiments; (2) models of glacier buildup and equilibrium-line altitude; (3) marine and terrestrial proxy records of climatic change; and (4) multiproxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a Portuguese lagoonal system

Climate change · Climate model · Climatology · Context (archaeology · Geography · Glacial period · Glacier · Holocene · Physical geography · Proxy (statistics · Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide · Geological formations and processes · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology

• Speleothem evidence for late Holocene climate variability and floods in Southern Greece

  Open Access•Martin Finné, Miryam Bar‐matthew et al.•Quaternary Research•2014

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• El Niño variability off Peru during the last 20,000 years

  Open Access•Bert Rein, Andreas Lückge et al.•Paleoceanography•2005

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• Climate in the eastern Mediterranean, and adjacent regions, during the past 6000 years – A review

  Open Access•Martin Finné, Karin Holmgren et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2011

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• In Memoriam

  Open Access•Pedro Costa, Pedro J M Costa et al.•The Holocene•2025

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• From the Ground Up

  Open Access•C Mcfadden•Human Nature•2023

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• Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene

  Open Access•Gérard C Bond, Gerard Bond et al.•Science•2001

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• Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record

  Open Access•W Dansgaard, Sara Johnsen et al.•Nature•1993

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• The Gisp2 δ18O Climate Record of the Past 16,500 Years and the Role of the Sun, Ocean, and Volcanoes

  Open Access•Minze Stuiver, Pieter M Grootes et al.•Quaternary Research•1995

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• Dansgaard‐Oeschger and Heinrich event imprints in Alboran Sea paleotemperatures

  Open Access•Isabel Cacho, Joan O Grimalt et al.•Paleoceanography•1999

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• Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands

  Open Access•David A Hodell, Mark Brenner et al.•Science•2001

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• Decadal Trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation

  Open Access•James W Hurrell•Science•1995

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