Journal article
Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period
Ellen C Corrick, Russell N Drysdale, John C Hellstrom, Emilie Capron, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Xu Zhang, Dominik Fleitmann, Isabelle Couchoud, Eric Wolff
SCIENCE | AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE | Published : 2020
Abstract
Many geographically dispersed records from across the globe reveal the occurrence of abrupt climate changes, called interstadial events, during the last glacial period. These events appear to have happened at the same time, but the difficulty of determining absolute dates in many of the records have made that proposition difficult to prove. Corrick et al. present results from 63 precisely dated speleothems that confirm the synchrony of those interstadial events. Their results also provide a tool with which to validate model simulations of abrupt climate change and calibrate other time series such as ice-core chronologies.
Grants
Awarded by Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
Awarded by European Union's Seventh Framework Program for research and innovation under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement
Awarded by Helmholtz Postdoc Program
Awarded by National Key R&D Program of China
Awarded by Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology
Awarded by Swiss National Science Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
E.C.C. was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. J.C.H. was supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130100801). E.C. is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Program for research and innovation under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 600207. S.O.R. and E.C. acknowledge the support of the Carlsberg Foundation. X.Z. is supported by Helmholtz Postdoc Program (PD-301), the National Key R&D Program of China (grant 2018YFA0606403), and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (QNLM201703). D.F. was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (PP002-110554/1). E.W. is supported by a Royal Society professorship.