Symposium: Warm Times/Cold Times: Holocene climate variability in the
northern North Atlantic region at the 2003 INQUA meeting
Reno, NE USA
23-30 July, 2003
For more information and to submit an abstract see:
http://inqua2003.dri.edu/abstracts.htm
Abstract deadline 31 March 2003
We remind the Arctic community that the symposium: Warm Times/Cold
Times: Holocene climate variability in the northern North Atlantic
region is scheduled for the 2003 INQUA meeting in Reno, NE USA, 23-30
July, 2003. We invite abstract submissions for oral and poster
sessions; abstract deadline is March 31, 2003. You can submit abstracts
electronically at: http://inqua2003.dri.edu/abstracts.htm.
The amplitude of Holocene environmental change is particularly strong in
the northern North Atlantic region. Early Holocene warming is due to an
intensified North Atlantic Drift and higher summer insolation; the early
Holocene thermal maximum was followed by irregular cooling commencing
about 5 ka, culminating in the Little Ice Age, widely thought to
represent the coldest summers of the postglacial. The Little Ice Age
terminated with the onset of 20th century warming. These changes
exhibit strong variability at decadal, century and millennial scales,
all sub-Milankovitch. Significant new research, primarily from lake
sediment cores, ice cores, and high-resolution marine cores, provide new
insights on the magnitude of change and the frequency domains of climate
variability, and provide a context for 20th century warming.
Co-conveners:
Gifford Miller, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado USA
Aslaug Geirsdottir, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, ICELAND
Atle Nesje, University of Bergen, Bergen, NORWAY
Chris Caseldine, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK