ESS5
Prof. Jin-Yi Yu
Mid-Deglacial
Cooling: The Younger Dryas
qThe mid-deglacial pause
in ice melting was
accompanied by a brief climate
osscilation in records near the
subpolar North Atlantic Ocean.
qTemperature in this
region has warmed part of the
way toward interglacial
levels, but this reversal brought
back almost full glacial cold.
qBecause an Arctic plant
called “Dryas” arrived during this episode, this mid-deglacial
cooling is called “the Younger Dryas”
event.
(from
Earth’s Climate:
Past and Future)