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Oceanic response to changes in the WAIS and astronomical forcing during the MIS31 superinterglacial
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
Douglas Lindemann
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
Fred Kucharski
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Aaron Wilson
Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
David Bromwich
Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Frode Stordal
University of Oslo Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway
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Short summary
These modeling results have enormous implications for paleoreconstructions of the MIS31 climate that assume overall ice-free conditions in the vicinity of the Antarctic continent. Since these reconstructions may depict dominant signals in a particular time interval and locale, they cannot be assumed to geographically represent large-scale domains, and their ability to reproduce long-term environmental conditions should be considered with care.
These modeling results have enormous implications for paleoreconstructions of the MIS31 climate...
