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Articles | Volume 13, issue 7
Articles | Volume 13, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-959-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-959-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 7
Research article
 | 
27 Jul 2017
Research article |  | 27 Jul 2017

Antarctic climate and ice-sheet configuration during the early Pliocene interglacial at 4.23 Ma

Nicholas R. Golledge, Zoë A. Thomas, Richard H. Levy, Edward G. W. Gasson, Timothy R. Naish, Robert M. McKay, Douglas E. Kowalewski, and Christopher J. Fogwill

Data sets

Antarctic dataset in NetCDF format A. M. Le Brocq, A. J., Payne, and A. Vieli https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.734145

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We investigated how the Antarctic climate and ice sheets evolved during a period of warmer-than-present temperatures 4 million years ago, during a time when the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was very similar to today's level. Using computer models to first simulate the climate, and then how the ice sheets responded, we found that Antarctica most likely lost around 8.5  m sea-level equivalent ice volume as both East and West Antarctic ice sheets retreated.
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