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Articles | Volume 20, issue 3
Articles | Volume 20, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-597-2024
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18 Mar 2024
Research article |  | 18 Mar 2024

Glacial inception through rapid ice area increase driven by albedo and vegetation feedbacks

Matteo Willeit, Reinhard Calov, Stefanie Talento, Ralf Greve, Jorjo Bernales, Volker Klemann, Meike Bagge, and Andrey Ganopolski

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We present transient simulations of the last glacial inception with the coupled climate–ice sheet model CLIMBER-X showing a rapid increase in Northern Hemisphere ice sheet area and a sea level drop by ~ 35 m, with the vegetation feedback playing a key role. Overall, our simulations confirm and refine previous results showing that climate-vegetation–cryosphere–carbon cycle feedbacks play a fundamental role in the transition from interglacial to glacial states.
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