Battisti (2007), Challenges to our understanding of the general circulation: Abrupt climate change, in Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, edited by

About 14,700 years ago (14.7 kyr BP), towards the end of the last ice age, the climate warmed dramatically and abruptly around the North Atlantic—by as much as the difference between full glacial and interglacial conditions—in no more than a decade or two. This is all the more remarkable because it...

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Main Authors: Richard Seager, David S. Battisti
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Princeton Univ. Press
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.573.6097
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/pub/seager/Seager_Battisti_2007.pdf
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Summary:About 14,700 years ago (14.7 kyr BP), towards the end of the last ice age, the climate warmed dramatically and abruptly around the North Atlantic—by as much as the difference between full glacial and interglacial conditions—in no more than a decade or two. This is all the more remarkable because it occurred in the presence of massive