• Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes 

      De Schepper, Stijn; Schreck, Michael; Beck, Kristina Marie; Matthiessen, Jens; Fahl, Kirsten; Mangerud, Gunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-28)
      The globally warm climate of the early Pliocene gradually cooled from 4 million years ago, synchronous with decreasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. In contrast, palaeoceanographic records indicate that the Nordic Seas ...
    • Plant macrofossil evidence for an early onset of the Holocene summer thermal maximum in northernmost Europe 

      Väliranta, Minna; Salonen, J. Sakari; Heikkilä, Maija; Amon, Leeli; Helmens, Karin; Klimaschewski, Andrea; Kuhry, P.; Kultti, Seija; Poska, Anneli; Shala, Shyhrete; Veski, Siim; Birks, Hilary H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-10)
      Holocene summer temperature reconstructions from northern Europe based on sedimentary pollen records suggest an onset of peak summer warmth around 9,000 years ago. However, pollen-based temperature reconstructions are ...
    • Solar forcing synchronizes decadal North Atlantic climate variability 

      Thiéblemont, Rémi; Matthes, Katja; Omrani, Nour-Eddine; Kodera, Kunihiko; Hansen, Felicitas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-15)
      Quasi-decadal variability in solar irradiance has been suggested to exert a substantial effect on Earth’s regional climate. In the North Atlantic sector, the 11-year solar signal has been proposed to project onto a pattern ...
    • Thermodynamic controls of the Atlantic Niño 

      Nnamchi, Hyacinth C; Li, Jianping; Kucharski, Fred; Kang, In-Sik; Keenlyside, Noel; Chang, Ping; Farneti, Riccardo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-26)
      Prevailing theories on the equatorial Atlantic Niño are based on the dynamical interaction between atmosphere and ocean. However, dynamical coupled ocean-atmosphere models poorly simulate and predict equatorial Atlantic ...