Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1933-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1933-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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29 Sep 2016
Research article |
| 29 Sep 2016
How warm was Greenland during the last interglacial period?
Amaelle Landais
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement – IPSL, UMR
8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement – IPSL, UMR
8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Emilie Capron
Center for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of
Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3
0ET, UK
Petra M. Langebroek
Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research,
Nygårdsgaten 112-114, 5008 Bergen, Norway
Pepijn Bakker
College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Emma J. Stone
BRIDGE, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol,
Bristol, UK
Niklaus Merz
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, and Oeschger
Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5,
3012 Bern, Switzerland
Christoph C. Raible
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, and Oeschger
Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5,
3012 Bern, Switzerland
Hubertus Fischer
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, and Oeschger
Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5,
3012 Bern, Switzerland
Anaïs Orsi
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement – IPSL, UMR
8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Frédéric Prié
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement – IPSL, UMR
8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Bo Vinther
Center for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of
Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Center for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of
Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Short summary
The last lnterglacial (LIG; 116 000 to 129 000 years before present) surface temperature at the upstream Greenland NEEM deposition site is estimated to be warmer by +7 to +11 °C compared to the preindustrial period. We show that under such warm temperatures, melting of snow probably led to a significant surface melting. There is a paradox between the extent of the Greenland ice sheet during the LIG and the strong warming during this period that models cannot solve.
The last lnterglacial (LIG; 116 000 to 129 000 years before present) surface temperature at the...
