Patterns, processes, and impacts of abrupt climate change in a warm world
The past 11,700 years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929177 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan N Shuman (0000-0002-8149-8925, University of Wyoming, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-43 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.152 |
| OpenAlex | W2109614189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 201 |
Abrupt environmental changes punctuated the warm Holocene epoch (the past ∼11,700 years), and studies of these episodes can provide insight into the dynamics that produce rapid climate changes, as well as their ecologic, hydrologic, and geomorphic impacts. This review considers the processes that generated warm world abrupt changes and their landscape and resource effects, including nonlinear climate system interactions, as well as the possibility that large climate variability can linearly produce apparent ‘state shifts.’ Representative examples of Holocene changes illustrate processes that could produce future changes, including (1) rapid changes in ice sheets, such as by ca 8200 years before AD 1950, (2) shifts in the behavior of the El Nino‐Southern Oscillation (e.g., at ca 5600 years before AD 1950) and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (e.g., at ca 2700 years before AD 1950), and (3) land–atmosphere feedbacks, such as were possible in North Africa in the mid‐Holocene. These case examples, drawn primarily from the Northern Hemisphere, also reveal the dynamics that generate the types of climate change impacts that would be particularly evident to individuals and societies, such as rapid tree species declines (observed to have taken place within as little time as 6–40 years) and persistent shifts in the regional availability of water. Holocene changes also demonstrate that even progressive climate change can produce important abrupt impacts; that increased rates of background climate forcing may increase the frequency of abrupt responses; and that impacts may well depend upon the particular sequence of changes. WIREs Clim Change 2012, 3:19–43. doi: 10.1002/wcc.152 This article is categorized under: Paleoclimates and Current Trends > Paleoclimate
Abrupt climate change · Climate change · Climate model · Climatology · Effects of global warming · Forcing (mathematics · Geography · Global warming · Holocene · Northern Hemisphere · Orbital forcing · Paleoclimatology · Physical geography · Climate variability and models · Environmental Science · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Tree-ring climate responses · Geology · Oceanography
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Pronounced variations in Fagus grandifolia abundances in the Great Lakes region during the Holocene
The 8.2 ka BP Holocene climate change event and human population resilience in northwest Atlantic Europe
A review of 6000–5000 cal BP climatic anomalies in China
Adaptations of the Early Jomon people in their settlement relocation to climate change around Lake Mikata, Central Japan
Human Response to Potential Robust Climate Change around 5500 cal BP in the Territory of Bohemia (the Czech Republic)
Modelling prehistoric settlement activities based on surface and subsurface surveys
Repeated century-scale droughts over the past 13,000 yr near the Hudson River watershed, USA
Mid-Holocene Hemlock Decline in Eastern North America Linked with Phytophagous Insect Activity
Alpine lake sediment records of the impact of glaciation and climate change on the biogeochemical cycling of soil nutrients
Climatic controls of Holocene fire patterns in southern South America
The influence of seasonal precipitation and temperature regimes on lake levels in the northeastern United States during the Holocene
A Regional Stratigraphic Isochron (ca. 8000 14 C yr B.P.) from Final Deglaciation of Hudson Strait
Holocene Climate Variability in Antarctica Based on 11 Ice-Core Isotopic Records
The 8.2-ka abrupt climate change event in Brown's Lake, northeast Ohio
High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Evidence for Middle Holocene Environmental Change, Owasco Lake, New York
Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean
Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe
Holocene Forcing of the Indian Monsoon Recorded in a Stalagmite from Southern Oman
A review of the mid-Holocene elm decline in the British Isles
Centennial-scale climate cooling with a sudden cold event around 8,200 years ago
A Pervasive Millennial-Scale Cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and Glacial Climates
Abrupt Climate Change
Heinrich events
Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene
Variability of El Niño/Southern Oscillation activity at millennial timescales during the Holocene epoch
The spatial and temporal complexity of the Holocene thermal maximum
Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period
The cold event 8200 years ago documented in oxygen isotope records of precipitation in Europe and Greenland
Suppression of El Niño during the Mid‐Holocene by changes in the Earth's orbit
Insolation values for the climate of the last 10 million years
Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide lakes
An ~15,000-Year Record of El Niño-Driven Alluviation in Southwestern Ecuador
Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon
Coherent High- and Low-Latitude Climate Variability During the Holocene Warm Period
Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present
Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene
The temperature of Europe during the Holocene reconstructed from pollen data
Variability in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation Through a Glacial-Interglacial Cycle
The 8.2ka event from Greenland ice cores
Holocene climate variability
A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China
The Holocene Asian Monsoon
Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara
Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago
Climatic Changes of the Last 18,000 Years
Holocene changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate inferred from a Galápagos lake sediment record
A major widespread climatic change around 5300 cal. yr BP at the time of the Alpine Iceman
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change
High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years
Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records
Total solar irradiance during the Holocene
Human Occupations and Climate Change in the Puna de Atacama, Chile
El Niño variability off Peru during the last 20,000 years
Quaternary stratigraphy of Norden, a proposal for terminology and classification
The 8k event
Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) declines at 9800 and 5300 cal. yr BP caused by Holocene climatic shifts in northeastern North America
Simulation of the Holocene climate evolution in Northern Africa
Post-glacial evolution of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and El Niño-Southern oscillation
Enhanced Late Holocene Enso/PDO expression along the margins of the eastern North Pacific
Cycles and trends in solar irradiance and climate
A severe centennial-scale drought in midcontinental North America 4200 years ago and apparent global linkages
Sensitive moisture response to Holocene millennial-scale climate variations in the Mid-Atlantic region, USA
The mid-Holocene Ulmus decline at Diss Mere, Norfolk, UK
Abrupt and consistent responses of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems to the 8200 cal. yr cold event
A mid-Holocene shift in Arctic sea-ice variability on the East Greenland Shelf
Climatic change in Chile at around 2700 BP and global evidence for solar forcing
Vegetation responses to the 8200 cal. BP cold event and to long-term climatic changes in the Eastern Alps
Determining the age of the mid-Holocene Tsuga cana densis (hemlock) decline, eastern North America
The Quaternary Period in the United States
Climatic Shifts in the Availability of Contested Waters
Would North American Paleoindians have Noticed Younger Dryas Age Climate Changes
Studies in the Scottish Lateglacial Environment
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