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Articles | Volume 20, issue 1
Articles | Volume 20, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-257-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-257-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 1
Research article
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30 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2024

Miocene Antarctic Ice Sheet area adapts significantly faster than volume to CO2-induced climate change

Lennert B. Stap, Constantijn J. Berends, and Roderik S. W. van de Wal

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Analysing simulations of Antarctic Ice Sheet variability during the early and mid-Miocene (23 to 14 Myr ago), we find that the ice sheet area adapts faster and more strongly than volume to climate change on quasi-orbital timescales. Considering the recent discovery that ice area, rather than volume, influences deep-ocean temperatures, this implies that the Miocene Antarctic Ice Sheet affects deep-ocean temperatures more than its volume suggests.
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