Preface Thorsten Kiefer and Christoph Kull .................... xi
Acknowledgements .............................................. xv
Section 1 Forcing Mechanisms
(ed. Martin Claussen)
1. Introduction to Climate Forcing and Climate
Feedbacks ................................................... 3
Martin Claussen
2. Insolation During Interglacial ............................. 13
A. Berger, M.F. Loutre, F. Kaspar and S.J. Lorenz
3. A Survey of Hypotheses for the 100-kyr Cycle ............... 29
Martin Claussen, Andre Berger and Hermann Held
4. Modelling the 100-kyr Cycle - An Example From
LLN EMICs .................................................. 37
Andre Berger and Marie-France Loutre
Section 2 Methods of Palaeoclimate Reconstruction and
Dating
(ed. Frank Sirocko)
5. Introduction - Palaeoclimate Reconstructions
and Dating ................................................. 47
Frank Sirocko
6. Late Quaternary Interglacials in East
Antarctica From Ice-Core Dust Records ...................... 53
Barbara Delmonte1, Jean Robert Petit1, Isabelle
Basile-Doelsch, Emil Jagoutz and Valter Maggi2
7. Eustatic Sea Level During Past Interglacials ............... 75
M. Siddall, J. Chappell and E.-K. Potter
8. Uranium-Series Dating of Peat from Central
and Northern Europe ........................................ 93
Manfred Frechen, Melanie Sierralta, Deniz Oezen
and Brigitte Urban
9. U-Redistribution in Fossil Reef Corals
from Barbados, West Indies, and Sea-Level Reconstruction
for MIS 6.5 ............................................... 119
Denis Scholz, Augusto Mangini and Dieter Meischner
10. Holocene and Eemian Varve Types of Eifel
Maar Lake Sediments ....................................... 141
Bert Rein, Knut Jager, Yvonne Kocot, Kirsten
Grimm and Frank Sirocko
11. Dating of Interglacial Sediments by
Luminescence Methods ...................................... 157
D. Degering and M.R. Krbetschek
12. Neanderthal Presence and Behaviour in
Central and Northwestern
Europe During MIS 5e ...................................... 173
Stefan Wenzel
Section 3 Climate and Vegetation in Europe During
MIS 5
(ed. Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goni)
13. Introduction to Climate and Vegetation in
Europe During MIS 5 ....................................... 197
Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goni
14. Abrupt Cooling Events at the Very End of the
Last Interglacial ......................................... 207
Klemens Seelos and Frank Sirocko
15. Estimates of Temperature and Precipitation
Variations During the Eemian Interglacial:
New Data From the Grande Pile Record (GP XXI) ............. 231
Denis-Didier Rousseau, Christine Hatté, Danielle
Duzer, Patrick Schevin, George Kukla and Joel Guiot
16. Quantitative Time-Series Reconstructions of
Holsteinian and Eemian Temperatures Using
Botanical Data ............................................ 239
Norbert Kühl and Thomas Litt
17. Comparative Analysis of Vegetation and Climate
Changes During the Eemian Interglacial in Central
and Eastern Europe ........................................ 255
A.A. Velichko, E.Y. Novenko, E.M. Zelikson,
T. Boettger and F.W. Junge
18. Indications of Short-Term Climate Warming at
the Very End of the Eemian in Terrestrial
Records of Central and Eastern Europe ..................... 265
T Boettger, F.W. Junge, S. Knetsch, E.Y. Novenko,
O.K. Borisova, K.V. Kremenetski and A.A. Velichko
19. Vegetation Dynamics in Southern Germany
During Marine Isotope Stage 5 (130 to 70kyr Ago) .......... 277
Ulrich C. Müller and Maria F. Sánchez Goni
20. Subtropical NW Atlantic Surface Water Variability
During the Last Interglacial .............................. 289
M.J. Vautravers, G. Bianchi and N.J. Shackleton
21. Abrupt Change of El Nino Activity off Peru
During Stage MIS 5e-d ..................................... 305
Bert Rein, Andreas Lueckge, Lutz Reinhardt, Frank
Sirocko, Anja Wolf, Wolf-Christian Dullo
22. Interglacial and Glacial Fingerprints from Lake
Deposits in the Gobi Desert, NW China ..................... 323
Bernd Wünnemann, Kai Hartmann, Norbert Altmann,
Ulrich Hambach, Hans-Joachim Pachur and Hucai Zhang
Section 4 Climate, Vegetation and Mammalian Faunas
in Europe during Middle Pleistocene Interglacials
(MIS 7, 9, 11)
(ed. Thomas Litt)
23. Introduction: Climate, Vegetation and Mammalian
Faunas in Europe during Middle Pleistocene
Interglacials (MIS 7, 9, 11) .............................. 351
Thomas Litt
24. Fine-Tuning the Land—ocean Correlation for the
Late Middle Pleistocene of Southern Europe ................ 359
K.H. Roucoux, P.C. Tzedakis, L. de Abreu and
N.J. Shackleton
25. Climate Variability of the Last Five Isotopic
Inter glacials: Direct Land—Sea—Ice Correlation
from the Multiproxy Analysis of North-Western
Iberian Margin Deep-Sea Cores ............................. 375
S. Desprat, M.F. Sánchez Goni, F. Naughton,
J.-L. Turon, J. Duprat, B. Malaize, E. Cortijo and
J.-P. Peypouquet
26. Palynological and Geochronological Study of
the Holsteinian/Hoxnian/Landos Interglacial ............... 387
Mebus A. Geyh and Helmut Müller
27. A New Holsteinian Pollen Record From the Dry
Maar at Dottingen (Eifel) ................................. 397
Markus Diehl and Frank Sirocko
28. Interglacial Pollen Records from Schoningen,
North Germany ............................................. 417
Brigitte Urban
29. Mammalian Faunas From the Interglacial Periods
in Central Europe and Their Stratigraphic
Correlation ............................................... 445
Wighart von Koenigswald
30. MIS 5 to MIS 8 - Numerically Dated Palaeontological
Cave Sites of Central Europe .............................. 455
Wilfried Rosendahl, Doris Doppes and Stephan Kempe
31. The Last and the Penultimate Interglacial as
Recorded by Speleothems From a Climatically
Sensitive High-Elevation Cave Site in the Alps ............ 471
Christoph Spoil, Steffen Holzkamper and
Augusto Mangini
Section 5 Modelling Past Interglacial Climates
(ed. Martin Claussen)
32. Climate System Models - A Brief Introduction .............. 495
Martin Claussen
33. Simulations of the Eemian Interglacial and the
Subsequent Glacial Inception with a Coupled
Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Model ................ 499
Frank Kaspar and Ulrich Cubasch
34. Simulated Teleconnections During the Eemian,
the Last Glacial Inception and the Preindustrial
Period .................................................... 517
Martin Widmann, Nikolaus Groll and Julie M. Jones
35. Orbital Forcing on Atmospheric Dynamics During
the Last Interglacial and Glacial Inception ............... 527
Gerrit Lohmann and Stephan J. Lorenz
36. Interglacials as Simulated by the LLN 2-D NH
and MoBidiC Climate Models ................................ 547
M.F. Loutre, A. Berger, M. Crucifix, S. Desprat
and M.F. Sánchez Goñi
37. Vegetation-Climate Feedbacks in Transient
Simulations Over the Last Interglacial
(128 000-113 000 yrBP) .................................... 563
M. Gröger, E. Maier-Reimer, U. Mikolajewicz,
G. Schurgers, M. Vizcaino and A. Winguth
38. Mechanisms Leading to the Last Glacial Inception
over North America: Results From the CLIMBER-GREMLIN
Atmosphere-Ocean-Vegetation Northern Hemisphere
Ice-Sheet Model ........................................... 573
Masa Kageyama, Sylvie Charbit, Catherine Ritz,
Myriam Khodri and Gilles Ramstein
39. Modelling the End of an Interglacial
(MIS 1, 5, 7, 9, 11) ....................................... 583
Claudia Kubatzki, Martin Claussen, Reinhard Calov
and Andrey Ganopolski
Section 6 Synthesis
40. Chronology and Climate Forcing of the Last Four
Interglacials ............................................. 597
Frank Sirocko, Martin Claussen, Thomas Litt, Maria
Fernanda Sánchez Goni, André Berger, Tatjana Boettger,
Markus Diehl, Stéphanie Desprat, Barbara Delmonte,
Detlev Degering, Manfred Frechen, Mebus A. Geyh,
Matthias Groeger, Masa Kageyama, Frank Kaspar,
Norbert Kühl, Claudia Kubatzki, Gerrit Lohmann,
Marie-France Loutre, Ulrich Müller, Bert Rein,
Wilfried Rosendahl, Katy Roucoux, Denis-Didier
Rousseau, Klemens Seelos, Mark Siddall, Denis Scholz,
Christoph Spötl, Brigitte Urban, Maryline
Vautravers, Andrei Velichko, Stefan Wenzel, Martin
Widmann and Bernd Wünnemann
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