Articles | Volume 18, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1815-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1815-2022
Research article
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10 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 10 Aug 2022

Compilation of Southern Ocean sea-ice records covering the last glacial-interglacial cycle (12–130 ka)

Matthew Chadwick, Xavier Crosta, Oliver Esper, Lena Thöle, and Karen E. Kohfeld

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Southern Ocean marine sediment core sea-ice records for the last 150 000 years Matthew Chadwick, Xavier Crosta, Oliver Esper, and Karen E. Kohfeld https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.943275

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Algae preserved in seafloor sediments have allowed us to reconstruct how Antarctic sea ice has varied between cold and warm time periods in the last 130 000 years. The patterns and timings of sea-ice increase and decrease vary between different parts of the Southern Ocean. Sea ice is most sensitive to changing climate at the external edges of Southern Ocean gyres (large areas of rotating ocean currents).