2-7: Paleoclimate; Ice Core and Lake Sediment Records

Figure 1 - Schematic diagrams of global temperature variations since the Pleistocene on three time-scales. Houghton, J.T., G.J. Jenkins, J.J. Ephraums, eds, 1990: 1990 Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 364 pp

Figure 2 - Departures of air temperature from modern values for the Eemian interglacial. Velichko et al., 1982, 1983, 1984.

Figure 3 - Departures of summer temperature and percipitation from modern values for the Holocene climatic optimum. Borzenkova and Zubakov, 1984; Budyko and Izrael, 1987.

Figure 4 - Worldwide glacier termini fluctuations over the last three centuries.. IPCC, 1990.


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Maps showing observed and simulated percentages of spruce pollen for each 300-year interval from 18,000 YBP to the present. Ibid.