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Science 4 June 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5420, pp. 1654 - 1657
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5420.1654
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A Mid-European Decadal Isotope-Climate Record from 15,500 to 5000 Years B.P.

Ulrich von Grafenstein, 1* Helmut Erlenkeuser, 2 Achim Brauer, 3 Jean Jouzel, 1 Sigfus J. Johnsen 4

Oxygen-isotope ratios of precipitation (delta 18OP) inferred from deep-lake ostracods from the Ammersee (southern Germany) provide a climate record with decadal resolution. The record in detail shows many of the rapid climate shifts seen in central Greenland ice cores between 15,000 and 5000 years before the present (B.P.). Negative excursions in the estimated delta 18OP from both of these records likely reflect short weakenings of the thermohaline circulation caused by episodic discharges of continental freshwater into the North Atlantic. Deviating millennial-scale trends, however, indicate that climate gradients between Europe and Greenland changed systematically, reflecting a gradual rearrangement of North Atlantic circulation during deglaciation.

1 Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
2 Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung der Universität Kiel, Germany.
3 Laboratoire de Botanique Historique et Palynologie, Faculte des Sciences et Techniques de Saint-Jerome, Marseille, France, and GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany.
4 Department of Geophysics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Science Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: uligraf{at}lsce.cnrs-gif.fr

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