Table of Contents

Preface Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson vii Abrupt Climate Change Revisited Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson 1 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 15 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, C. Williams, H. W. Hill, and D. W. Hastings 39 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 57 Simulated Two-Stage Recovery of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last Deglaciation Jun Cheng, Zhengyu Liu, Feng He, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, and Mark Wehrenberg 75 The Role of Hudson Strait Outlet in Younger Dryas Sedimentation in the Labrador Sea Harunur Rashid, David J. W. Piper, and Benjamin P. Flower 93 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 111 Hypothesized Link Between Glacial/Interglacial Atmospheric CO2 Cycles and Storage/Release of CO2-Rich Fluids From Deep-Sea Sediments Lowell Stott and Axel Timmermann 123 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 139 The 1500 Year Quasiperiodicity During the Holocene A. Ruzmaikin and J. Feynman 161 Abrupt Climate Changes During the Holocene Across North America From Pollen and Paleolimnological Records Konrad Gajewski and Andre E. Viau 173 Abrupt Holocene Climatic Change in Northwestern India: Disappearance of the Sarasvati River and the End of Vedic Civilization B. S. Paliwal 185 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 195 Abrupt Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective From the World's Highest Mountains Lonnie G. Thompson 215 AGU Category Index 235 Index 237

About the Author

Harunur Rashid and Leonid Polyak are the authors of Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts, published by Wiley.