Climate of the Past Discussions www.clim-past-discuss.net 1814-9340 1814-9359 3 3 2007 10.5194/cpd-3-755-2007 http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/755/2007/ http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/755/2007/cpd-3-755-2007.html http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/755/2007/cpd-3-755-2007.pdf 755 769 2007-05-11 Direct North-South synchronization of abrupt climate change record in ice cores using beryllium 10 G. M. Raisbeck raisbeck@csnsm.in2p3.fr F. Yiou J. Jouzel T. F. Stocker CSNSM/IN2P3/CNRS, Bat 108, 91405 Orsay, France IPSL/LSCE, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, CE Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France Climate and Environmental Physics Institute, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland A new, decadally resolved record of the ¹⁰Be peak at 41 kyr from the EPICA Dome C ice core (Antarctica) is used to match it with the same peak in the GRIP ice core (Greenland). 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