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Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-2031-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-2031-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
Research article
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19 Dec 2019
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2019

A 120 000-year record of sea ice in the North Atlantic?

Niccolò Maffezzoli, Paul Vallelonga, Ross Edwards, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Clara Turetta, Helle Astrid Kjær, Carlo Barbante, Bo Vinther, and Andrea Spolaor

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This study provides the first ice-core-based history of sea ice in the North Atlantic Ocean, reaching 120 000 years back in time. This record was obtained from bromine and sodium measurements in the RECAP ice core, drilled in east Greenland. We found that, during the last deglaciation, sea ice started to melt ~ 17 500 years ago. Over the 120 000 years of the last glacial cycle, sea ice extent was maximal during MIS2, while minimum sea ice extent exists for the Holocene.
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