Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2021)

Onset and termination of Heinrich Stadial 4 and the underlying climate dynamics

  • Hai Cheng,
  • Yao Xu,
  • Xiyu Dong,
  • Jingyao Zhao,
  • Hanying Li,
  • Jonathan Baker,
  • Ashish Sinha,
  • Christoph Spötl,
  • Haiwei Zhang,
  • Wenjing Du,
  • Baoyun Zong,
  • Xue Jia,
  • Gayatri Kathayat,
  • Dianbing Liu,
  • Yanjun Cai,
  • Xianfeng Wang,
  • Nicolás M. Strikis,
  • Francisco W. Cruz,
  • Augusto S. Auler,
  • Anil K. Gupta,
  • Raj Kumar Singh,
  • Sonu Jaglan,
  • Som Dutt,
  • Zhengyu Liu,
  • R. Lawrence Edwards

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00304-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Severe cooling at high northern latitudes, which marked the onset of Heinrich Stadial 4, was synchronous with changes in tropical monsoon systems and preceded Antarctic warming by around 300 years, according to a compilation of speleothem and ice core records.