Antarctic last interglacial isotope peak in response to sea ice retreat not ice-sheet collapse

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Holloway, Max D ^a,b   Sime, Louise C ^a   Singarayer, Joy S ^c   Tindall, Julia C ^d   Bunch, Pete ^e   Valdes, Paul J ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE CORE; ICE RETREAT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DECOMPOSITION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYPOTHESIS; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; MORPHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; SEA ICE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84982142278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12293     Document Type: Article

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