Considerable climatic variability on decadal to millennial timescales has been documented for the Holocene epoch. A reappraisal of estuarine and coastal sediment records reveals five periods of enhanced storminess during the past 6,500 years, at a frequency of approximately every 1,500 years and unrelated to solar irradiance variations.
- Philippe Sorrel
- Maxime Debret
- Bernadette Tessier
