Holocene Climate Variability and Climate Forcing

Climate Forcing during the Holocene

The role of several important factors that have played a role in Holocene climate change is examined. These forcing factors operate on different time-scales: lower frequency (millennial-scale) climate changes associated with orbital forcing, century-scale variability associated with solar forcing, and annualto decadal-scale variability associated with volcanic forcing. Feedbacks within the clim...

General Circulation Modelling of Holocene climate variability

Results from a series of Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) General Circulation Models (GCMs) are used to assess climate variability in the pre-anthropogenic Holocene, the interval following the end of the last glacial beginning roughly 11.5 kyr BP. In particular, we focus on the forced aspects of this variability. The principle forcings are orbital, solar, volcanic and events (such as ...

Dissertation : N . Pacific Late Holocene Climate Variability and Atmospheric Chemistry

Holocene climate variability in arid Asia: Nature and mechanisms

The papers in this special issue are derived from a selection of presentations given at the RACHAD workshop titled ‘‘Pattern of Holocene Climate Change in Central Asia: Data Synthesis’’ held at Lanzhou University, People’s Republic of China, from 25th to 27th July 2006. RACHAD is INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission (PALCOMM) Project (#0502), concerned with ‘rapid climate change in Central Asia’s dry...

Mid-Holocene climate reconstruction

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