Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to climate forcing and climate feedbacks / Martin Claussen -- Insolation during interglacial / A. Berger ... [et al.] -- A survey of hypotheses for the 100-kyr cycle / Martin Claussen, Andrâe Berger and Hermann Held -- Modelling the 100-kyr cycle - an example from LLN EMICs / Andrâe Berger and Marie-France Loutre -- Introduction - palaeoclimate reconstructions and dating / Frank Sirocko -- Late Quaternary interglacials in East Antarctica from ice-core dust records / Barbara Delmonte ... [et al.] -- Eustatic sea level during past interglacials / M. Siddall, J. Chappell and E.-K. Potter -- Uranium-series dating of peat from central and northern Europe / Manfred Frechen ... [et al.] -- U-redistribution in fossil reef corals from Barbados, West Indies, and sea-level reconstruction for MIS 6.5 / Denis Scholz, Augusto Mangini and Dieter Meischner -- Holocene and Eemian varve types of Eifel Maar lake sediments / Bert Rein ... [et al.] -- Dating of interglacial sediments by luminescence methods / D. Degering and M.R. Krbetschek -- Neanderthal presence and behaviour in central and northwestern Europe during MIS 5e / Stefan Wenzel -- Introduction to climate and vegetation in Europe during MIS 5 / María Fernanda Sánchez Goñi -- Abrupt cooling events at the very end of the last interglacial / Klemens Seelos and Frank Sirocko -- Estimates of temperature and precipitation variations during the Eemian interglacial : new data from the Grande Pile record (GP XXI) / Denis-Didier Rousseau ... [et al.] -- Quantitative time-series reconstructions of Holsteinian and Eemian temperatures using botanical data / Norbert Kèuhl and Thomas Litt -- Comparative analysis of vegetation and climate changes during the Eemian interglacial in central and eastern Europe / A.A. Velichko ... [et al.] -- Indications of short-term climate warming at the very end of the Eemian in terrestrial records of central and eastern Europe / T. Boettger ... [et al.] -- Vegetation dynamics in southern Germany during marine isotope stage 5 (~130 to 70 kyr ago) / Ulrich C. Müller and María Fernanda Sánchez Goñi -- Subtropical NW Atlantic surface water variability during the last interglacial / M.J. Vautravers, G. Bianchi and N.J. Shackleton -- Abrupt change of El Níno activity off Peru during stage MIS 5e-d / Bert Rein ... [et al.] -- Interglacial and glacial fingerprints from lake deposits in the Gobi Desert, NW China / Bernd Wèunnemann ... [et al.] -- Introduction : climate, vegetation and mammalian faunas in Europe during Middle Pleistocene interglacials (MIS 7, 9, 11) / Thomas Litt -- Fine-tuning the land-ocean correlation for the late Middle Pleistocene of southern Europe / K.H. Roucoux ... [et al.] -- Climate variability of the last five isotopic interglacials : direct land-sea-ice correlation from the multiproxy analysis of north-western Iberian margin deep-sea cores / S. Desprat ... [et al.] -- Palynological and geochronological study of the Holsteinian/Hoxnian/Landos interglacial / Mebus A. Geyh and Helmut Mèuller -- A new Holsteinian pollen record from the Dry Maar at Dèottingen(Eifel) / Markus Diehl and Frank Sirocko -- Interglacial pollen records from Schöningen, north Germany / Brigitte Urban -- Mammalian faunas from the interglacial periods in central Europe and their stratigraphic correlation / Wighart von Koenigswald -- MIS 5 to MIS 8 - numerically dated palaeontological cave sites of central Europe / Wilfried Rosendahl, Doris Dèoppes and Stephan Kempe -- The last and the penultimate interglacial as recorded by speleothems from a climatically sensitive high-elevation cave site in the Alps / Christoph Spèotl, Steffen Holzkèamper and Augusto Mangini -- Climate system models - a brief introduction / Martin Claussen -- Simulations of the Eemian interglacial and the subsequent glacial inception with a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model / Frank Kaspar and Ulrich Cubasch -- Simulated teleconnections during the Eemian, the last glacial inception and the preindustrial period / Martin Widmann, Nikolaus Groll and Julie M. Jones -- Orbital forcing on atmospheric dynamics during the last interglacial and glacial inception / Gerrit Lohmann and Stephan J. Lorenz -- Interglacials as simulated by the LLN 2-D NH and MoBidiC climate models / M.F. Loutre ... [et al.] -- Vegetation-climate feedbacks in transient simulations over the last interglacial (128,000-113,000 yr BP) / M. Gröger ... [et al.] -- Mechanisms leading to the last glacial inception over North America : results from the Climber-Gremlin atmosphere-ocean-vegetation Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet model / Masa Kageyama ... [et al.] -- Modelling the end of an interglacial (MIS 1, 5, 7, 9, 11) / Claudia Kubatzki ... [et al.] -- Chronology and climate forcing of the last four interglacials / Frank Sirocko ... [et al.].