Abstract
Holocene climate was strongly determined by changing solar insolation (millennial scale) as well as by changing solar activity, large tropical volcanic eruptions, and the dynamics of the ocean thermohaline circulation (multi-decadal to multi-century scale).
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Wanner, H. (2014). Holocene Climate. In: Freedman, B. (eds) Global Environmental Change. Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_28
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