• Anthropogenic and environmental drivers of vegetation change in southeastern Norway during the Holocene 

      ter Schure, Anneke Theresia Maria; Bajard, Manon Juliette Andree; Loftsgarden, Kjetil; Høeg, Helge Irgens; Ballo, Eirik Gottschalk; Bakke, Jostein; Støren, Eivind Wilhelm Nagel; Iversen, Frode; Kool, Anneleen; Brysting, Anne Krag; Krüger, Kirstin; Boessenkool, Sanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Uncovering anthropogenic and environmental drivers behind past biological change requires integrated analyses of long-term records from a diversity of disciplines. We applied an interdisciplinary approach exploring effects ...
    • Atmosphere-driven ice sheet mass loss paced by topography: Insights from modelling the south-western Scandinavian Ice Sheet 

      Åkesson, Henning; Morlighem, Mathieu; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Svendsen, John-Inge; Mangerud, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09)
      Marine-terminating glaciers and ice streams are important controls of ice sheet mass balance. However, understanding of their long-term response to external forcing is limited by relatively short observational records of ...
    • Climate adaptation of pre-Viking societies 

      Bajard, Manon Juliette Andree; Ballo, Eirik Gottschalk; Høeg, Helge Irgens; Bakke, Jostein; Støren, Eivind Wilhelm Nagel; Loftsgarden, Kjetil; Iversen, Frode; Hagopian, William Martin; Jahren, Anne Hope Florine; Svensen, Henrik Hovland; Krüger, Kirstin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Understanding how the Viking societies were impacted by past climate variability and how they adapted to it has hardly been investigated. Here, we have carried out a new multi-proxy investigation of lake sediments, including ...
    • “Cold and wet” and “warm and dry” climate transitions at the East Asian summer monsoon boundary during the last deglaciation 

      Yue, Jiaojiao; Xiao, Jule; Wang, Xu; Meckler, Anna Nele; Modestou, Sevasti Eleni; Fan, Jiawei (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Studies on millennial‒centennial abrupt climate events during the last deglaciation have significant relevance to modern-day abrupt and extreme climate changes that are occurring more frequently in the context of global ...
    • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum 

      Bentley, Michael J.; Ocofaigh, Colm Ó.; Anderson, John B.; Conway, Howard; Davies, Bethan; Graham, Alastair G.C.; Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter; Hodgson, Dominic A.; Jamieson, Stewart S.R.; Larter, Robert D.; Mackintosh, Andrew; Smith, James A.; Verleyen, Elie; Ackert, Robert P.; Bart, Philip J.; Berg, Sonja; Brunstein, Daniel; Canals, Miquel; Colhoun, Eric A.; Crosta, Xavier; Dickens, William A.; Domack, Eugene; Dowdeswell, Julian A.; Dunbar, Robert; Ehrmann, Werner; Evans, Jeffrey; Favier, Vincent; Fink, David; Fogwill, Christopher J.; Glasser, Neil F.; Gohl, Karsten; Golledge, Nicholas R.; Goodwin, Ian; Gore, Damian B.; Greenwood, Sarah L.; Hall, Brenda L.; Hall, Kevin; Hedding, David W.; Hein, Andrew S.; Hocking, Emma P.; Jakobsson, Martin; Johnson, Joanne S.; Jomelli, Vincent; Jones, R. Selwyn; Klages, Johann P.; Kristoffersen, Yngve; Kuhn, Gerhard; Leventer, Amy; Licht, Kathy; Lilly, Katherine; Lindow, Julia; Livingstone, Stephen J.; Massé, Guillaume; McGlone, Matt S.; Mckay, Robert M.; Melles, Martin; Miura, Hideki; Mulvaney, Robert; Nel, Werner; Nitsche, Frank O.; O'Brien, Philip E.; Post, Alexandra L.; Roberts, Stephen J.; Saunders, Krystyna M.; Selkirk, Patricia M.; Simms, Alexander R.; Spiegel, Cornelia; Stolldorf, Travis D.; Sugden, David E.; van der Putten, Nathalie; van Ommen, Tas; Verfaillie, Deborah; Vyverman, Wim; Wagner, Bernd; White, Duanne A.; Witus, Alexandra E.; Zwartz, Dan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-15)
      A robust understanding of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum is important in order to constrain ice sheet and glacial-isostatic adjustment models, and to explore the forcing mechanisms ...
    • Consistent fluctuations in intermediate water temperature off the coast of Greenland and Norway during Dansgaard-Oeschger events 

      Sessford, Evangeline; Jensen, Mari Fjalstad; Tisserand, Amandine Aline; Muschitiello, Francesco; Dokken, Trond Martin; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Jansen, Eystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-01)
      Rapid warmings epitomize the Dansgaard-Oeschger events that are recorded in Greenland ice cores and imprinted in ocean sediment cores. While the abrupt climate changes appear connected to perturbations in sea ice and ocean ...
    • Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic set by sea ice, frontal position and thermocline structure 

      Pedro, J.B.; Andersson, Carin; Vettoretti, G.; Voelker, A.H.L.; Waelbroeck, C.; Dokken, Trond Martin; Jensen, Mari Fjalstad; Rasmussen, S.O.; Sessford, Evangeline; Jochum, M.; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We use eighteen timescale-synchronised near-surface temperature reconstructions spanning 10–50 thousand years before present to clarify the regional expression of Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) and Heinrich (H) events in the ...
    • Did the Eurasian ice sheets melt completely in early Marine Isotope Stage 3? New evidence from Norway and a synthesis for Eurasia 

      Mangerud, Jan; Alexanderson, Helena; Birks, Hilary H; Paus, Aage; Perić, Zoran M.; Svendsen, John Inge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We describe glaci-lacustrine sediments buried under thick tills in Folldalen, south-east Norway, a site located close to the former centre of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet. Thus, the location implies that the ice sheet had ...
    • Evidence for regional cooling, frontal advances, and East Greenland Ice Sheet changes during the demise of the last interglacial 

      Irvali, Nil; Ninnemann, Ulysses Silas; Kleiven, Helga Flesche; Galaasen, Eirik Vinje; Morley, Audrey; Rosenthal, Yair (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      High-resolution lithic and sea surface climate records are used to portray the progression of North Atlantic climate, hydrography, and Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) activity through the peak of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e ...
    • Evidence for the asynchronous retreat of large outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland at the end of the last glaciation 

      Dyke, Laurence M.; Hughes, Anna L.C.; Murray, Tavi; Hiemstra, John F.; Andresen, Camilla S.; Rodés, Ángel (Journal article, 2014-09-01)
      Recent rapid changes in the marine-terminating sectors of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) have prompted concerns about the future stability of the ice sheet. Long-term records of ice sheet behaviour provide valuable context ...
    • Holocene multi-proxy environmental reconstruction from lake Hakluytvatnet, Amsterdamøya Island, Svalbard (79.5°N) 

      Gjerde, Marthe; Bakke, Jostein; D'Andrea, William J.; Balascio, Nicholas L.; Bradley, Raymond S.; Vasskog, Kristian; Ólafsdóttir, Sædis; Torgeir Opeland, Røthe; Perren, Bianka B.; Hormes, Anne (Journal article, 2018-03)
      High resolution proxy records of past climate are sparse in the Arctic due to low organic production that restricts the use of radiocarbon dating and challenging logistics that make data collection difficult. Here, we ...
    • Hydroclimate variability was the main control on fire activity in northern Africa over the last 50,000 years 

      Moore, Harriet; Crocker, Anya; Belcher, Claire; Meckler, Anna Nele; Osborne, Colin; Beerling, David; Wilson, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      North Africa features some of the most frequently burnt biomes on Earth, including the semi-arid grasslands of the Sahel and wetter savannas immediately to the south. Natural fires are fuelled by rapid biomass production ...
    • Ice-flow patterns and precise timing of ice sheet retreat across a dissected fjord landscape in western Norway 

      Mangerud, Jan; Hughes, Anna L.C.; Sæle, Tone Herfindal; Svendsen, John-Inge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06)
      We reconstruct patterns of ice flow and retreat of the southwestern Scandinavian Ice Sheet, from 2900 field observations of glacial striae and elevation measurements of 60 ice-marginal-deltas from a high-resolution LiDAR ...
    • Independent tephrochronological evidence for rapid and synchronous oceanic and atmospheric temperature rises over the Greenland stadial-interstadial transitions between ca. 32 and 40 ka b2k 

      Berben, Sarah M.P.; Dokken, Trond Martin; Abbott, Peter M.; Cook, Eliza; Sadatzki, Henrik; Simon, Margit Hildegard; Jansen, Eystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Understanding the dynamics that drove past abrupt climate changes, such as the Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events, depends on combined proxy evidence from disparate archives. To identify leads, lags and synchronicity between ...
    • Late Glacial mountain glacier culmination in Arctic Norway prior to the Younger Dryas 

      Wittmeier, Hella Elisa; Schaefer, Joerg M.; Bakke, Jostein; Rupper, Summer; Paasche, Øyvind; Schwartz, Roseanne; Finkel, Robert C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Climate changes during the Late Glacial period (LG; 15-11 ka) as recorded in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores show a bipolar pattern. Between 14.5 ka and 13 ka ago, the northern latitudes experienced the Bølling/Allerød ...
    • Late Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Eurasian Ice Sheets inferred from sediment input along the northeastern Atlantic continental margin 

      Lien, Øyvind Flataker; Hjelstuen, Berit Oline Blihovde; Zhang, Xu; Sejrup, Hans Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      High-latitude marine sediment archives may contain information about the configuration and dynamics of former ice sheets, paleoclimate and the intensity of glacial erosion and uplift in catchment areas. Compiling information ...
    • NE Atlantic continental slope stability from a numerical modeling perspective 

      Bellwald, Benjamin; Urlaub, Morelia; Hjelstuen, Berit Oline Blihovde; Sejrup, Hans Petter; Sørensen, Mathilde B.; Forsberg, Carl Fredrik; Vanneste, Maarten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)
      Trough mouth fans are environments characterized by high sediment supply during glacial stages and the occurrence of large-scale instabilities. The geological record indicates that several of these environments have failed ...
    • Present day Jakobshavn Isbræ close to the Holocene minimum extent 

      Kajanto, Karita Anneli; Seroussi, Hélène; de Fleurian, Basile; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Marine terminating glaciers evolve on millenial timescales in response to changes in oceanic and atmospheric conditions. However, the relative role of oceanic and atmospheric drivers remains uncertain. The evolution of ...
    • Rapid retreat of a Scandinavian marine outlet glacier in response to warming at the last glacial termination 

      Åkesson, Henning; Gyllencreutz, Richard; Mangerud, Jan; Svendsen, John-Inge; Nick, Faezeh M.; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Marine outlet glaciers on Greenland are retreating, yet it is unclear if the recent fast retreat will persist, and how atmosphere and ocean warming will impact future retreat. We show how a marine outlet glacier in ...
    • Reconstruction of changes in the Weddell Sea sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum 

      Hillenbrand, Claus-dieter; Bentley, Michael J.; Stolldorf, Travis D.; Hein, Andrew S.; Kuhn, Gerhard; Graham, Alastair G.C.; Fogwill, Christopher J.; Kristoffersen, Yngve; Smith, James A.; Anderson, John B.; Larter, Robert D.; Melles, Martin; Hodgson, Dominic A.; Mulvaney, Robert; Sugden, David E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-15)
      A robust understanding of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum is important in order to constrain ice sheet and glacial-isostatic adjustment models, and to explore the forcing mechanisms ...