Half-precession signals in Lake Ohrid (Balkan) and their spatio-temporal relations to climate records from the European realm

The nature of half-precession (HP) cycles (∼9000–12,000 years), although identified in numerous records, is still poorly understood. Here we focus on HP signals in Lake Ohrid and in a variety of different marine and terrestrial proxy records from Europe and the Northern Atlantic region. Our study examines the temporal evolution of the HP signal from the early/middle Pleistocene to the present, discusses the results across the latitudes of the Mediterranean and Europe, and assesses the potential of the HP to reflect the connectivity of climate systems over time.