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Climate change in the circum-North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation

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A survey of new and published palaeoclimate data indicates that both the high- and low-latitude North Atlantic regions were characterized by at least three synchronous periods of abrupt climate change during the last glacial-to-interglacial transi-tion. Climate model results suggest that changes in the melting history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet may explain much of this nonlinear response of the climate system to astronomical (Milankovitch) forcing.

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  1. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 10964, USA

    Jonathan T. Overpeck

  2. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida, 33149, USA

    Larry C. Peterson

  3. Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA

    Nilva Kipp & John Imbrie

  4. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, 10025, USA

    David Rind

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Overpeck, J., Peterson, L., Kipp, N. et al. Climate change in the circum-North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Nature 338, 553–557 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/338553a0

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