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Abrupt Climate Change
Over the last two decades the climate dynamics community has come to realize that climate change is often abrupt relative to climate forcing. A recently completed National Academy of Sciences study (Jonathan Overpeck was a participant/co-author) makes the case that abrupt climate change also poses a serious future threat to society, both in developed and developing countries. An overarching goal of our research is to contribute to a better understanding of abrupt climate change, both during glacial/deglacial periods and interglacials. As with other research foci we are pursing our goal via the collection of new records, synthesis, and modeling studies. This topic relates to all other research foci (back to main research page).
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Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises See other research foci.
Overpeck, J.T. and J.E. Cole. 2006. Abrupt change in Earth's climate system. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 1-31. Alley, R.B., J. Marotzke, W.D. Nordhaus, J.T. Overpeck, D.M. Peteet, R.A. Pielke, Jr., R.T. Pierrehumbert, P.B. Rhines, T.F. Stocker, L.D. Talley, and J.M. Wallace. 2003. Abrupt climate change. Science 299: 2005-2010. National Research Council (J. Overpeck is a co-author). 2002. Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 182 pp.
Hughen, K.A., J.R. Southon, S.J. Lehman, and J.T. Overpeck. 2000. Synchronous radiocarbon and climate shifts during the last deglaciation. Science 290: 1951-1954. Overpeck, J.T. 2000. Climate surprises. In: Forces of Change: A New View of Nature, D. Botkin et al., eds., Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, pp. 33-40. Overpeck, J.T. and R.S. Webb. 2000. Nonglacial rapid climate events: Past and future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97: 1335-1338. Hughen, K.A., J. Southon, L.C. Peterson, R. Alley, D.M. Sigman, J.T. Overpeck, S.J. Lehman, and M. Kashgarian. 1998. Deglacial changes in ocean circulation from an extended radiocarbon calibration. Nature 391: 65-68. Hughen, K.A., J.T. Overpeck, L.C. Peterson, and S. Trumbore. 1996. Rapid climate changes in the tropical Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Nature 380: 51-54. Overpeck, J.T. 1996. Warm climate surprises. Science 271: 1820-1821.
Overpeck, J.T., D. Rind, A. Lacis, and R. Healy. 1996. Possible role of dust-induced regional warming in abrupt climate change during the last glacial period. Nature 384: 447-449. Peterson, L.C., J.T. Overpeck, N. Kipp, and J. Imbrie. 1991. A high-resolution late-Quaternary upwelling record from the anoxic Cariaco Basin, Venezuela. Paleoceanography 6: 99-119. Overpeck, J.T., L.C. Peterson, N. Kipp, J. Imbrie, and D. Rind. 1989. Climate change in the circum-North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Nature 338: 553-557. |
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