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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1721-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1721-2016
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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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth System Sciences & Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
now at: Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht
University, the Netherlands
Philippe Huybrechts
Earth System Sciences & Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Marie-France Loutre
Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute,
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM),
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Thierry Fichefet
Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute,
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM),
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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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.
We have modelled the climate evolution from 135 to 120 kyr BP with an Earth system model to...
