Journal article
Rapid climate change in the North Atlantic during the Younger Dryas recorded by deep-sea corals
Abstract
Research on global climate change has increasingly focused on rapid (century-scale and decadal) changes. One such climate shift, the Younger Dryas cooling event1, took place during the last deglaciation, from 13,000 to 11,700 years BP. Climate records from Greenland ice cores and North Atlantic sediment cores show high-frequency fluctuations implying significant (>5 °C) shifts in temperature at this time, taking place within 50–100 years (ref. …
Authors
Smith JE; Risk MJ; Schwarcz HP; McConnaughey TA
Journal
Nature, Vol. 386, No. 6627, pp. 818–820
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
4 1997
DOI
10.1038/386818a0
ISSN
0028-0836