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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Taylor, K. C.
• Mayewski, P. A.
• Alley, R. B.
• Brook, E. J.
• Gow, A. J.
• Grootes, P. M.
• Meese, D. A.
• Saltzman, E. S.
• Severinghaus, J. P.
• Twickler, M. S.
• White, J. W. C.
• Whitlow, S.
• Zielinski, G. A.

Titel

The Holocene-Younger Dryas Transition Recorded at Summit, Greenland

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 1997-10, Vol.278 (5339), p.825-827

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Society for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Analysis of ice from Dye-3, Greenland, has demonstrated that the transition between the Younger Dryas and Holocene climate periods occurred over a 40-year period. A near annually resolved, multiparameter record of the transition recorded in the GISP2 core from Summit, Greenland, shows that most of the transition occurred in a series of steps with durations of about 5 years. Some climate proxies associated with mid-latitude sources appear to have changed about 15 years before climate proxies associated with more northern regions. Changes in atmospheric water vapor are likely to have played a large role in the climate transition.