Abrupt climate change : mechanisms, patterns, and impacts / Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, editors.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson -- Abrupt climate change revisited / Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson -- A review of abrupt climate change events in the northeast Atlantic Ocean (Iberian Margin) : latitudinal, longitudinal, and vertical gradients / Antje H.L. Voelker and Lucia de Abreu -- Laurentide ice sheet meltwater and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last glacial cycle : a view from the Gulf of Mexico / B.P. Flower [and others] -- Modeling abrupt climate change as the interaction between sea ice extent and mean ocean temperature under orbital insolation forcing / J.A. Rial and R. Saha -- Simulated two-stage recovery of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last deglaciation / Jun Cheng [and others] -- The role of Hudson Strait outlet in Younger Dryas sedimentation in the Labrador Sea / Harunur Rashid, David J.W. Piper, and Benjamin P. Flower -- Challenges in the use of cosmogenic exposure dating of moraine boulders to trace the geographic extents of abrupt climate changes : the Younger Dryas example / Patrick J. Applegate and Richard B. Alley -- Hypothesized link between glacial/interglacial atmospheric CO₂ cycles and storage/release of CO₂-rich fluids from deep-sea sediments / Lowell Stott and Axel Timmermann -- The impact of the final Lake Agassiz flood recorded in Northeast Newfoundland and Northern Scotian shelves based on century-scale palynological data / Elisabeth Levac, C.F.M. Lewis, and A.A.L. Miller -- The 1500 year quasiperiodicity during the Holocene / A. Ruzmaikin and J. Feynman -- Abrupt climate changes during the Holocene across North America from pollen and paleolimnological records / Konrad Gajewski and Andre E. Viau -- Abrupt Holocene climatic change in northwestern India : disappearance of the Sarasvati River and the end of Vedic civilization / B.S. Baliwal -- Evidence for climate teleconnections between Greenland and the Sierra Nevada of California during the Holocene, including the 8200 and 5200 climate events / Stephen F. Wathen -- Abrupt climate change : a paleoclimate perspective from the world's highest mountains / Lonnie G. Thompson.