Preface
Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson vii
Abrupt Climate Change Revisited
Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson 1
A Review of Abrupt Climate Change Events in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean (Iberian Margin):
Latitudinal, Longitudinal, and Vertical Gradients
Antje H. L. Voelker and Lucia de Abreu 15
Laurentide Ice Sheet Meltwater and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last Glacial Cycle: A View From the Gulf of Mexico
B. P. Flower, C. Williams, H. W. Hill, and D. W. Hastings 39
Modeling Abrupt Climate Change as the Interaction Between Sea Ice Extent and Mean Ocean Temperature Under Orbital Insolation Forcing
J. A. Rial and R. Saha 57
Simulated Two-Stage Recovery of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last Deglaciation
Jun Cheng, Zhengyu Liu, Feng He, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, and Mark Wehrenberg 75
The Role of Hudson Strait Outlet in Younger Dryas Sedimentation in the Labrador Sea
Harunur Rashid, David J. W. Piper, and Benjamin P. Flower 93
Challenges in the Use of Cosmogenic Exposure Dating of Moraine Boulders to Trace the Geographic Extents of Abrupt Climate Changes: The Younger Dryas Example
Patrick J. Applegate and Richard B. Alley 111
Hypothesized Link Between Glacial/Interglacial Atmospheric CO2 Cycles and Storage/Release
of CO2-Rich Fluids From Deep-Sea Sediments
Lowell Stott and Axel Timmermann 123
The Impact of the Final Lake Agassiz Flood Recorded in Northeast Newfoundland and Northern Scotian
Shelves Based on Century-Scale Palynological Data
Elisabeth Levac, C. F. M. Lewis, and A. A. L. Miller 139
The 1500 Year Quasiperiodicity During the Holocene
A. Ruzmaikin and J. Feynman 161
Abrupt Climate Changes During the Holocene Across North America From Pollen and Paleolimnological Records
Konrad Gajewski and Andre E. Viau 173
Abrupt Holocene Climatic Change in Northwestern India: Disappearance of the Sarasvati River
and the End of Vedic Civilization
B. S. Paliwal 185
Evidence for Climate Teleconnections Between Greenland and the Sierra Nevada of California
During the Holocene, Including the 8200 and 5200 Climate Events
Stephen F. Wathen 195
Abrupt Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective From the World's Highest Mountains
Lonnie G. Thompson 215
AGU Category
Index 235
Index 237
