Global temperature modes shed light on the Holocene temperature conundrum

The Holocene temperature conundrum.

A recent temperature reconstruction of global annual temperature shows Early Holocene warmth followed by a cooling trend through the Middle to Late Holocene [Marcott SA, et al., 2013, Science 339(6124):1198-1201]. This global cooling is puzzling because it is opposite from the expected and simulated global warming trend due to the retreating ice sheets and rising atmospheric greenhouse gases. O...

Field warming experiments shed light on the wheat yield response to temperature in China

Wheat growth is sensitive to temperature, but the effect of future warming on yield is uncertain. Here, focusing on China, we compiled 46 observations of the sensitivity of wheat yield to temperature change (SY,T, yield change per °C) from field warming experiments and 102 SY,T estimates from local process-based and statistical models. The average SY,T from field warming experiments, local proc...

Volcanic influence on centennial to millennial Holocene Greenland temperature change

On the Dynamics of Global Temperature

4 In this alternative theory of global temperature dynamics over the 5 annual to the glacial time scales, the accumulation of variations in so6 lar irradiance dominates the dynamics of global temperature change. A 7 straightforward recurrence matrix representation of the atmosphere/surface/deep 8 ocean system, models temperature changes by (1) the size of a forc9 ing, (2) its duration (due to a...

A model-data comparison of the Holocene global sea surface temperature

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