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Compilation of Southern Ocean sea-ice records covering the last glacial-interglacial cycle (12–130 ka)
Matthew Chadwick
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Xavier Crosta
UMR 5805 EPOC, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, EPHE, Pessac, France
Oliver Esper
Alfred Wegner Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Lena Thöle
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Karen E. Kohfeld
School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver, Canada
School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
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Short summary
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).
Algae preserved in seafloor sediments have allowed us to reconstruct how Antarctic sea ice has...
