Around 14.000 years ago there was a rapid global warming and moistening of climates, perhaps occurring within the space of only a few years or decades. In many respects, this phase seems to have resembled some of the earlier interstadials that had occurred so many times before during the glacial period. Conditions in many mid-latitude areas appear to have been about as warm as they are today, although many other areas - whilst warmer than during the Late Glacial Cold Stage - seem to have remained slightly cooler than present.

Examples:

• A Tropical Mechanism for Northern Hemisphere Deglaciation.
  Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3) 4(5), 1046, doi: 10.1029/2003GC0000508, 2003. pdf (428 KB), ps (1,7 MB), Poster (492 KB)
• Intermediate depth warming in the tropical Atlantic related to weakened thermohaline circulation. pdf (502 KB)
• Modelling tempo-spatial signatures of Heinrich Events: Influence of the climatic background state. pdf (6,1 MB)
• Southern Ocean Origin for Resumption of Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation during Deglaciation. Link
• Klimaübergänge... (Deklim-results 2002) Poster (516 KB)
• Klimaübergänge... (Deklim-results 2003) Poster (520 KB)