Abstract
The vast area of the North Pacific, spanning ~55° longitude, represents a challenge for documenting and understanding the geologic history of ocean, atmosphere, and terrestrial environmental change. This special issue highlights site-specific analyses to address various questions and provides clues that arise in response to continued North Pacific warming today in a rapidly changing climate (Figure 1). The emergence of new methods and novel application of existing methods serve to enhance our fundamental understanding of natural modes of climate variability driven by ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns, including the role of external (e.g., insolation) vs. internal forcing [e.g., El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)]. Included in this volume are geographically diverse studies that present new and traditional methods for the interpretation of climate records drawn from pollen, macrofossils, tree rings, diatoms, grain size, and glacial studies. Many provide new geographic comparisons, such as Kamchatka and Hawaii, or emerge from novel geologic archives and environments, such as the marine shelf, a thermokarst lake, and a fossil forest.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Quaternary Science, Geomorphology and Paleoenvironment, a section of the journal Frontiers in Earth Science
The emergence of new methods and novel application of existing methods serve to enhance our fundamental understanding of natural modes of climate variability driven by ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns, including the role of external vs. internal forcing [e.g., El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)]
The studies range from the Hawaiian Islands in sub-tropical North Pacific (Beilman et al.,), California, and Montana in mid-latitude eastern Pacific (Carlin et al.; Kirby et al.; Stone et al.), Kamchatka in the high-latitude western Pacific (Nichols et al.), and Alaska, in high latitude central North Pacific, with numerous new Holocene records from Kodiak Island (Peteet et al.), southcentral Alaska (Jones et al.), southeastern Alaska coast (Ager; Gaglioti et al.), southern Interior Alaska (Bigelow et al.) to as far north as the Yukon
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Quaternary Science, Geomorphology and Paleoenvironment, a section of the journal Frontiers in Earth Science. The emergence of new methods and novel application of existing methods serve to enhance our fundamental understanding of natural modes of climate variability driven by ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns, including the role of external (e.g., insolation) vs internal forcing [e.g., El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)]. Included in this volume are geographically diverse studies that present new and traditional methods for the interpretation of climate records drawn from pollen, macrofossils, tree rings, diatoms, grain size, and glacial studies. The studies range from the Hawaiian Islands in sub-tropical North Pacific (Beilman et al.,), California, and Montana in mid-latitude eastern Pacific (Carlin et al.; Kirby et al.; Stone et al.), Kamchatka in the high-latitude western Pacific (Nichols et al.), and Alaska, in high latitude central North Pacific, with numerous new Holocene records from Kodiak Island (Peteet et al.), southcentral Alaska (Jones et al.), southeastern Alaska coast (Ager; Gaglioti et al.), southern Interior Alaska (Bigelow et al.) to as far north as the Yukon
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