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Ocean lead at the termination of the Younger Dryas cold spell

The abrupt ending of the Younger Dryas cooling episode marked the onset of the present interglacial and was the most prominent climate change in the Earth’s recent history. This study shows evidence for a sequence of events with a leading role of the ocean at the transition into the present day warm Holocene epoch.

Christof Pearce
Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
Søren M. Kristiansen
ResearchOpen Access09 Apr 2013
Nature Communications

Volume: 4, P: 1-6
Holocene shifts in marine mammal distributions around Northern Greenland revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA

Arctic marine ecosystems have experienced significant change through the Holocene. Here, the authors used sedaDNA from Northern Greenland to reconstruct marine mammal occurrence, demonstrating the impact of air temperature and sea ice cover over the past 12000 years.

Lennart Schreiber
Sofia Ribeiro
Eline D. Lorenzen
ResearchOpen Access15 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-17
Evidence for influx of Atlantic water masses to the Labrador Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum

Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
Antoon Kuijpers
Christof Pearce
ResearchOpen Access24 Mar 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-14
Southwest Greenland shelf glaciation during MIS 4 more extensive than during the Last Glacial Maximum

Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
Antoon Kuijpers
Ian Snowball
ResearchOpen Access30 Oct 2019
Scientific Reports

Volume: 9, P: 1-11
Tracking the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000 years

The origin of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, a semi-periodic variability of sea-surface temperature, is unknown. Knudsenet al.show that 55- to 70-year climate oscillations existed throughout the last 8,000 years, suggesting that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is a permanent feature of the Holocene climate induced by internal ocean variability.

Mads Faurschou Knudsen
Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
Antoon Kuijpers
ResearchOpen Access01 Feb 2011
Nature Communications

Volume: 2, P: 1-8
Evidence for external forcing of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation since termination of the Little Ice Age

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation strongly influences Northern Hemisphere climate, yet its primary driver is poorly understood. Knudsen et al.analyse proxy records from the past ~450 years and show that external forcing has dominated control of the oscillation since the termination of the Little Ice Age.

Mads Faurschou Knudsen
Bo Holm Jacobsen
Jesper Olsen
ResearchOpen Access25 Feb 2014
Nature Communications

Volume: 5, P: 1-8
Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents

Reconstructions of ocean and land temperatures since ad 1500 indicate that sustained, industrial-era warming of land areas in the Northern Hemisphere and tropical oceans began earlier than previously thought, around the mid-nineteenth century.

Nerilie J. Abram
Helen V. McGregor
Lucien von Gunten
Research24 Aug 2016
Nature

Volume: 536, P: 411-418
A Holocene fjord record from Greenland reveals exceptional Atlantic water influence during minimum ice-sheet extent

From ~7,000 to 3,000 years ago, reduced ice-sheet extent coincided with the inflow of warm Atlantic waters into the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, leading to an exceptional oceanographic regime, according to sedimentological, paleoclimatic, and paleobiological data from the past 10,500 years.

Anna Bang Kvorning
Maija Heikkilä
Sofia Ribeiro
ResearchOpen Access28 Apr 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-14
A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

Julien Emile-Geay
Nicholas P. McKay
Jens Zinke
ResearchOpen Access11 Jul 2017
Scientific Data

Volume: 4, P: 1-33
High rates of marine organic carbon burial on the southwest Greenland margin induced by Neoglacial advances

Organic carbon burial in a deep basin on the southwest Greenland shelf is stronger under historic glacier advance than retreat over the past 2500 years, according to analysis of a sediment core sample.

Yunfeng Wang
Yves Gélinas
Peter M. J. Douglas
ResearchOpen Access17 Jun 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-10
Robust global ocean cooling trend for the pre-industrial Common Era

Sea surface temperatures have varied over the past 2,000 years. A synthesis of surface-temperature reconstructions shows ocean surface cooling from ad 1 to 1800, with much of the trend from 800 to 1800 driven by volcanic eruptions.

Helen V. McGregor
Michael N. Evans
Vasile Ersek
Reviews17 Aug 2015
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 8, P: 671-677
Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis

Polarella glacialis DNA in sediments can provide a record of past sea-ice cover as inferred gene copy numbers increase with sea-ice concentration between 20 and 80%, suggest analysis of sedimentary DNA from Arctic marine and fjord environments.

Sara Harðardóttir
James S. Haile
Sofia Ribeiro
ResearchOpen Access09 Jan 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-13
Response of Arctic benthic foraminiferal traits to past environmental changes

Katrine Elnegaard Hansen
Christof Pearce
Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
ResearchOpen Access13 Dec 2023
Scientific Reports

Volume: 13, P: 1-14
Minimal Holocene retreat of large tidewater glaciers in Køge Bugt, southeast Greenland

Laurence M. Dyke
Camilla S. Andresen
Flor Vermassen
ResearchOpen Access26 Sept 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-10
Microbial turnover times in the deep seabed studied by amino acid racemization modelling

Stefan Braun
Snehit S. Mhatre
Bente Aa. Lomstein
ResearchOpen Access18 Jul 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-14

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Ocean lead at the termination of the Younger Dryas cold spell

Holocene shifts in marine mammal distributions around Northern Greenland revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA

Evidence for influx of Atlantic water masses to the Labrador Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum

Southwest Greenland shelf glaciation during MIS 4 more extensive than during the Last Glacial Maximum

Tracking the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000 years

Evidence for external forcing of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation since termination of the Little Ice Age

Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents

A Holocene fjord record from Greenland reveals exceptional Atlantic water influence during minimum ice-sheet extent

A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

High rates of marine organic carbon burial on the southwest Greenland margin induced by Neoglacial advances

Robust global ocean cooling trend for the pre-industrial Common Era

Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis

Response of Arctic benthic foraminiferal traits to past environmental changes

Minimal Holocene retreat of large tidewater glaciers in Køge Bugt, southeast Greenland

Microbial turnover times in the deep seabed studied by amino acid racemization modelling

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