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Science 8 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5498, pp. 1905 - 1907
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5498.1905
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Perspectives

PALEOCLIMATE:
Glacial Climate Instability

Laurent Labeyrie

Throughout the last glacial period, rapid climatic changes called Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) events occurred in the Northern Hemisphere. As Labeyrie discusses in his Perspective, these events are ideal targets for testing our understanding of climate change and developing climatic change models. Important steps toward understanding D-O events, particularly regarding the role of the low latitudes, are now reported by Hughen et al. and Peterson et al.

The author is at the Université Paris-Sud and the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CNRS-CEA, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. E-mail: laurent.labeyrie{at}lsce.cnrs-gif.fr

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Tropical climates in the game of two hemispheres revealed by abrupt climatic change.
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