A global picture of the first abrupt climatic event occurring during the last glacial inception

Capron, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-1884; Landais, A.; Chappellaz, J.; Buiron, D.; Fischer, H.; Johnsen, S.J.; Jouzel, J.; Leuenberger, M.; Masson-Delmotte, V.; Stocker, T.F.. 2012 A global picture of the first abrupt climatic event occurring during the last glacial inception. Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (15), L15703. 8, pp. 10.1029/2012GL052656

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Abstract/Summary

The orbital-scale transition from the last interglacial to glacial climate corresponds to the progressive organization of global millennial-scale climate variability. Here, we investigate the structure and the global fingerprint of the first warming event occurring during the last glacial inception, the Greenland InterStadial 25 (GIS 25). Using centennial to decadal-resolution measurements of d18O and dD in the ice together with d15N, d18O2 and CH4 in the trapped air, we show that GIS 25 does not coincide with large environmental changes at lower latitudes. Such an equivocal fingerprint questions whether GIS 25 is simply a smaller amplitude version of later rapid events or whether it reflects a more regional northern hemisphere origin for the initiation of the millennialscale climatic variability. After this ambiguous first rapid event, the onset of the global millennial-scale variability - characteristic of the last glacial period- occurs as a short (300 years) event ending GIS 25. Citation: Capron, E., A. Landais, J. Chappellaz, D. Buiron, H. Fischer, S. J. Johnsen, J. Jouzel, M. Leuenberger, V. Masson-Delmotte, and T. F. Stocker (2012), A global picture of the first abrupt climatic event occurring during the last glacial inception.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/2012GL052656
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Chemistry and Past Climate
ISSN:	0094-8276
Additional Keywords:	NorthGRIP ice core, abrupt climatic events, glacial inception
Date made live:	25 Sep 2012 13:53 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19708

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1029/2012GL052656

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Chemistry and Past Climate

ISSN:

0094-8276

Additional Keywords:

NorthGRIP ice core, abrupt climatic events, glacial inception

Date made live:

25 Sep 2012 13:53 +0 (UTC)