Rapid climatic warming at the end of the last glacial: new perspectives

In this paper, an overview is given of the main considerations of an international workshop on rapid warming at the end of the last glacial. Several steps are discussed that could be taken to promote a better understanding of the abrupt climatic changes that occurred during the last glacial–interglacial transition. We focus on the following aspects: chronology, interpretation of terrestrial and marine proxy data, palaeoclimate modelling, model-data comparison and land–sea correlation.