September 12, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI)Required Reading:
Paillard D., Glacial cycles: Toward a new paradigm, Reviews of Geophysics, 39, 325-346, 2001 pdf
Petit et al., Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica, Nature, 399, 429-436, 1999 pdf
September 19, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI)Required Reading
Kawamura et al., Northern hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years, Nature, 448, 912-916, 2007 pdf supplementary material pdf
Raymo M. and Huybers P., Unlocking the myseteries of the ice ages, Nature, 451, 284-285, 2008 pdf
September 26, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI)Required Reading
Johnsen et al., Irregular glacial interstadials recorded in a new Greenland ice core, Nature, 359, 311-313, 1992 pdf
Dansgaard et al., Evidence for general instability for past climate from a 250-kyr ice core record, Nature, 364, 218-220, 1993 pdf
Supplementary Reading
Johnsen et al., The origin of Arctic precipitation under present and glacial conditions, Tellus B, 41, 452-469, 1989 pdf
Grootes et al., Comparison of the oxygen isotope records from the GISP2 and GRIP ice cores, Nature, 366, 552-554, 1993 pdf
October 3, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI)Required Reading
Bond et al., Evidence for massive discharges of icebergs into the North Atlantic Ocean during the last glacial period, Nature, 360, 245-249, 1992 pdf
Bond et al., Correlations between climate records from North Atlantic sediments and Greenland ice, Nature, 365, 143-147, 1993 pdf
Strongly Encouraged Reading
Andrews, J., Icebergs and iceberg rafted detritus (IRD) in the North Atlantic: facts and assumptions, Oceanography, 13, 100-108, 2000 pdf
Supplementary Reading
Heinrich H., Origin and consequences of cyclic ice rafting in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during the past 130,000 years, Quaternary Research, 29, 142-152, 1988 pdf
Hemming S., Heinrich evens: Massive late Pleistocene detritus layers of the North Atlantic and their global climate imprint, Review of Geophysics, 42, 1-43, 2004 pdf
Ruddiman W., Late Quaternary deposition of ice-rafted sand in the subpolar North Atlantic (lat 40o to 65 o N), Geological Society of America Bulletin, 88, 1813-1827, 1977 pdf
October 10, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI)Required Reading
Rahmstorf S., Ocean circulation and climate during the last 120,000 years, Nature, 419, 207-214, 2002 pdf
Broecker W., Massive iceberg discharges as triggers for global climate change, Nature, 372, 421-424, 1994 pdf
October 17, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI), 54-823 (MIT)Required Reading:
MacAyeal D., A low-order model of the Heinrich event cycle, Paleoceanography, 8, 767-773, 1993 pdf
MacAyeal D., Binge-purge oscillations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet as a cause of the North Atlantic Heinrich events, Paleoceanography, 8, 775-784, 1993 pdf
October 31, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI), 54-823 (MIT)Required Reading:
Hulbe et al., Catastrophic ice shelf break up as the source of Heinrich event icebergs, Paleoceanography, 19, PA1004, doi: 10.1029/2003PA000890, 2004 pdf
Alvarez-Solas et al., Iceberg discharges of the last glacial period driven by oceanic circulation changes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 11, 16350-16354, 2013 pdf
November 7, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI), 54-823 (MIT)Required Reading:
WAIS Divide Project Members, Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age, Nature, 520, 661-665 + Method section, 2015 pdf
Stocker T., The seesaw effect, Science, 282, 61-62, 1998 pdf
November 14, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI), 54-823 (MIT)Required Reading:
Thompon et al., Tropical climate instability: The last glacial climate cycle from a Qinghai-Tibetan ice core, Science, 276, 1821-1825, 1997 pdf
Wang et al., A high-resolution absolutely-dated Late Pleistocene monsoon record from Hulu Cave, China, Science, 294, 2345-2348, 2001 pdf
Background Reading:
Bradley R., Paleoclimatology - Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary - 3rd edition, Academic Press, 2014 excerpt 1 pdf
Bradley R., Paleoclimatology - Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary - 3rd edition, Academic Press, 2014 excerpt 2 pdf
November 21, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI), 54-823 (MIT)Required Reading:
Ganapolski A. and Rahmstorf S., Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model, Nature, 409, 153-158, 2001 pdf
Knutti et al., Strong hemispheric coupling of glacial climate through freshwater discharge and ocean circulation, Nature, 430, 851-856, 2004 pdf
Background Reading:
Stocker T. and Johnsen S., A minimum thermodynamic model for the bipolar seesaw, Paleoceanography, 18, doi: 10.1029/2003PA000920, 2003 pdf (corrigendum pdf)
Clement A. and Peterson L., Mechanisms of abrupt climate change of the last glacial period, Reviews of Geophysics, 46, 1-39, 2008 pdf
Li C. and Born A., Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocen dynamics in Dansgaard-Oeschger events, Quaternary Science Reviews, 203, 1-20, 2019 pdf
December 5, 4:00-5:30 pm, Clark 271 (WHOI), 54-823 (MIT)Required Reading:
Broecker W. et al., Routing of meltwater from the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Younger Dryas cold episode, Nature, 341, 318-321, 1989 pdf
Manabe S. and Stouffer R., Coupled ocean-atmosphere model response to freshwater input: Comparison to the Younger Dryas event, Paleoceanography, 12, 321-336, 1997 pdf erratum pdf
Steffensen et al., High-resolution Greenland data show abrupt climate change happens in few years, Science, 321, 680-684, 2008 pdf
Supplementary Reading:
Firestone et al., Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to megafaunak extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 1016-1021, 2007 pdf
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12.708: Advanced Seminar in Paleoceanography
