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1 Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund University, Tornav. 13, SE-223 63 Lund, Sweden
2 Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Ueberlandstrasse 133, Postfach 611, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
3 Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, INF 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
4 Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
5 AMS Laboratory, Institute for Physics and Astronomy, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
6 Niels Bohr Institute, Department of Geophysics, Rockefeller Komplekset, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
7 Department of Marine Ecology, Danmarks Miljøundersøgelser (DMU), P.O. Box 358, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
8 Norwegian Polar Institute, Polar Environmental Centre, N-9296 Tromso, Norway
9 Universität Hohenheim, Institute für Botanik, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany
10 Tallinn Technical University, Institute of Geology, Estonia pst. 7, 10143 Tallinn, Estonia
Early Holocene lacustrine, tree-ring, ice-core, and marine records reveal that the Northern Hemisphere underwent a short cooling event at 10 300 calendar yr B.P. (9100 14C yr B.P.). The records were compared on a common high-resolution time scale and show that the event lasted less than 200 yr, with a cooling peak of 50 yr, and the event coincides with a distinct Holocene thermohaline disturbance recognized in the North Atlantic Ocean. In spite of well- known freshwater forcings at the time of the event, the negligible difference between the modeled 
14C record, based on the GISP2 (Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2) 10Be data, and the measured values, does not allow for detectable 14C changes related to global ocean ventilation. We can, however, show that the onset of the cooling coincides with the onset of one of the largest Holocene 10Be flux peaks. This finding may imply that the climate system is more sensitive to solar-related changes than previously thought and that such changes may be an important underlying mechanism for sub-Milankovitch climate variability.
Key Words: Holocene • sub-Milankovitch cooling event • lake sediments • marine records • ice-core proxies • tree rings • 14C • 10Be • 14C modeling • solar forcing
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