Climate Variations at Millennial Timescales

The intensifying effects of climate change on the Earth‘s system and modern life have attracted great attention from the whole world. Studies on the past climate could provide insight into the characteristics and underlying mechanisms of climate variation on different timescales. In particular, the variability of climate change on millennial timescales is a critical issue that is necessary to our understanding of the rapid collapse and rebuilding of the climate and/or the environment over the course of several to one hundred years, a finding that was extensively revealed in marine and terrestrial sediments as well as in ice core records. For example, the well-known Dansgaard–Oeschger (DO) events in Greenland and Antarctic Isotopic Maximum (AIM) events are thought to be closely related through oceanic and atmospheric systems. In-depth research, however, is still needed to elaborate upon the interaction process between different sub-climate systems on millennial scales.

This Special Issue invites contributions from a broad range of disciplines that use a variety of geologic archives to understand how climate has changed in the past. Such applications can be extended to understanding human adaptation to severe climate change. This Special Issue also welcomes new and novel methods that advance science to help us understand the past and the present climate. This application can help us to obtain high-resolution and/or precisely dated records and to gain knowledge from cutting-edge model simulation work.

Submissions can include original research articles or comprehensive reviews related to the title/description above. Each submission will undergo a formal peer review process, and the acceptance or rejection of the submitted article will be evaluated upon receiving the reviews.

Dr. Xianglei Li
Dr. Yijia Liang
Guest Editors

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