Ocean temperature thresholds for Last Interglacial West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2675-2682

  Sutter, Johannes ^a   Gierz, Paul ^a   Grosfeld, Klaus ^a   Thoma, Malte ^a   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a,b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; ice sheet modeling; Last Interglacial; paleoclimate; sea level; WAIS collapse

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTICA; ICE SHEET MODELS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATES; WAIS COLLAPSE;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; FOSSIL RECORD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MELTING; PALEOCLIMATE; REEF; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRESHOLD; WARMING;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84979491479     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067818     Document Type: Article

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