TY - JOUR
T1 - A northern lead in the orbital band
T2 - North-south phasing of Ice-Age events
AU - Alley, Richard B.
AU - Brook, Edward J.
AU - Anandakrishnan, Sridhar
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Thomas Blunier, Kurt Cuffey, Gideon Henderson, Sigfus Johnsen, Olivier Marchal, Todd Sowers, Thomas Stocker, and other colleagues for discussions and access to data, the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (www.ngdc.noaa.gov) for data archival, Michael Bender and Jerry McManus for reviews that greatly improved the manuscript, and Peter Clark, Alan Mix and Edouard Bard for organizing such a stimulating, productive, and enjoyable meeting. This research was funded by several grants from the US National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs to the authors, including OPP9714687 to EJB.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Re-analysis of existing data sets shows that they are fully consistent with northern-insolation control of Ice-Age cycles, and do not provide strong support for alternate models invoking tropical or southern controls. The coldest time of the last 100ka in central Greenland was nearly synchronous with the minimum in summer insolation about 24ka BP (thousand years before 1950). Approximately one-third of the total Termination-I warming since then was achieved over the almost 10ka before the abrupt warming into the Bolling, which some workers have interpreted as the start of the warming. Southern warming as recorded in the Byrd Station, Antarctica ice-isotopic record lagged northern warming. CO2 rise was roughly synchronous with southern warming, methane rise may have been delayed a little as was sea-level rise, and the change in the isotopic composition of atmospheric oxygen was delayed significantly. The data for the extrema just before Termination II are consistent with occurrence of the same phasing as for Termination I, but with somewhat different progression of the two terminations once initiated, perhaps because of differences in the forcing.
AB - Re-analysis of existing data sets shows that they are fully consistent with northern-insolation control of Ice-Age cycles, and do not provide strong support for alternate models invoking tropical or southern controls. The coldest time of the last 100ka in central Greenland was nearly synchronous with the minimum in summer insolation about 24ka BP (thousand years before 1950). Approximately one-third of the total Termination-I warming since then was achieved over the almost 10ka before the abrupt warming into the Bolling, which some workers have interpreted as the start of the warming. Southern warming as recorded in the Byrd Station, Antarctica ice-isotopic record lagged northern warming. CO2 rise was roughly synchronous with southern warming, methane rise may have been delayed a little as was sea-level rise, and the change in the isotopic composition of atmospheric oxygen was delayed significantly. The data for the extrema just before Termination II are consistent with occurrence of the same phasing as for Termination I, but with somewhat different progression of the two terminations once initiated, perhaps because of differences in the forcing.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00072-5
DO - 10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00072-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036143233
SN - 0277-3791
VL - 21
SP - 431
EP - 441
JO - Quaternary Science Reviews
JF - Quaternary Science Reviews
IS - 1-3
ER -