title: Asynchronous climate changes in the North Atlantic and Japan during the last termination.
abstract: Pollen records from the annually laminated sediment sequence in Lake Suigetsu, Japan, suggest a sequence of climate changes during the Last Termination that resembles that of the North Atlantic region but with noticeable differences in timing. An interstadial interval commenced a few centuries earlier [approximately 15,000 years before the present (yr B.P.)] than the North Atlantic GI-1 (Bölling) event. Conversely, the onset of a Younger Dryas (YD)-like cold reversal (12,300 to 11,250 yr B.P.) postdated the North Atlantic GS-1 (YD) event by a few centuries. Climate in the Far East during the Last Termination reflected solar insolation changes as much as Atlantic influences.
authors.affiliation: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 3-2 Oeyama-cho, Goryo, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 610-1192, Japan. nakagawa@mail.dotcom.fr
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
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authors.lastname: Kitagawa
authors.forename: Yoshinori
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authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: Pavel E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Tarasov
authors.forename: Kotoba
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authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: Katsuya
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authors.lastname: Gotanda
authors.forename: Yuki
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authors.lastname: Sawai