• Arctic Ocean glacial history 

      Jakobsson, Martin; Andreassen, Karin; Bjarnadóttir, Lilja Rún; Dove, Dayton; Dowdeswell, Julian A.; England, John H.; Funder, Svend; Hogan, Kelly; Ingólfsson, Ólafur; Jennings, Anne; Krog Larsen, Nikolaj; Kirchner, Nina; Landvik, Jon Y.; Mayer, Larry; Mikkelsen, Naja; Möller, Per; Niessen, Frank; Nilsson, Johan; O'Reagan, Matt; Polyak, Leonid; Nørgaard-Pedersen, Niels; Stein, Ruediger (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013-11-14)
      While there are numerous hypotheses concerning glacial–interglacial environmental and climatic regime shifts in the Arctic Ocean, a holistic view on the Northern Hemisphere's late Quaternary ice-sheet extent and their impact on ocean and sea-ice dynamics remains to be established. Here we aim to provide a step in this direction by presenting an overview of Arctic Ocean glacial history, based on the ...
    • Environmental variability off NE Greenland (western Fram Strait) during the past 10,600 years 

      Zehnich, Marc; Spielhagen, Robert F.; Bauch, Henning A.; Forwick, Matthias; Hass, Christian; Palme, Tina; Stein, Ruediger; Syring, Nicole (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-13)
      To reconstruct the climatic and paleoceanographic variability offshore Northeast Greenland during the last ~10 ka with multidecadal resolution, sediment core PS93/025 from the outermost North-East Greenland continental shelf (80.5°N) was studied by a variety of micropaleontological, sedimentological and isotopic methods. High foraminiferal fluxes, together with high proportions of ice-rafted debris ...
    • Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean 

      Stein, Ruediger; Fahl, Kirsten; Schreck, Michael; Knorr, Gregor; Niessen, Frank; Forwick, Matthias; Gebhardt, Catalina; Jensen, Laura; Kaminski, Michael; Kopf, Achim; Matthiessen, Jens; Jokat, Wilfried; Lohmann, Gerrit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-04-04)
      Although the permanently to seasonally ice-covered Arctic Ocean is a unique and sensitive component in the Earth’s climate system, the knowledge of its long-term climate history remains very limited due to the restricted number of pre-Quaternary sedimentary records. During Polarstern Expedition PS87/2014, we discovered multiple submarine landslides along Lomonosov Ridge. Removal of younger ...
    • Sea ice and millennial-scale climate variability in the Nordic seas 90 kyr ago to present 

      Hoff, Ulrike; Rasmussen, Tine Lander; Stein, Ruediger; Ezat, Mohamed; Fahl, Kirsten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-07-26)
      In the light of rapidly diminishing sea ice cover in the Arctic during the present atmospheric warming, it is imperative to study the distribution of sea ice in the past in relation to rapid climate change. Here we focus on glacial millennial-scale climatic events (Dansgaard/Oeschger events) using the sea ice proxy IP25 in combination with phytoplankton proxy data and quantification of diatom species ...