Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset
of the Last Interglacial

Goelzer, Heiko; Huybrechts, Philippe; Loutre, Marie-France; Fichefet, Thierry

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1721-2016

Articles | Volume 12, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1721-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1721-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 8

Research article

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25 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 25 Aug 2016

Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial

Heiko Goelzer, Philippe Huybrechts, Marie-France Loutre, and Thierry Fichefet

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RC C2043: 'Review of Goelzer et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Oct 2015
RC C2455: 'Review of Goelzer et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Nov 2015
AC C3226: 'Author response to the reviewer's comments', Heiko Goelzer, 09 Mar 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (12 Apr 2016) by Gerrit Lohmann

AR by Heiko Goelzer on behalf of the Authors (13 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Apr 2016) by Gerrit Lohmann

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (16 May 2016)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (30 May 2016)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (20 Jun 2016) by Gerrit Lohmann

AR by Heiko Goelzer on behalf of the Authors (30 Jun 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Jul 2016) by Gerrit Lohmann

AR by Heiko Goelzer on behalf of the Authors (18 Jul 2016) Manuscript

Short summary

We have modelled the climate evolution from 135 to 120 kyr BP with an Earth system model to study the onset of the Last Interglacial warm period. Ice sheet changes and associated freshwater fluxes in both hemispheres constitute an important forcing in the simulations. Freshwater fluxes from the melting Antarctic ice sheet are found to lead to an oceanic cold event in the Southern Ocean as evidenced in some ocean sediment cores, which may be used to constrain the timing of ice sheet retreat.