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Sea ice variability and links to East Siberian permafrost carbon remobilization during the last glacial-interglacial transition
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 11418, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden
Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 11418, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden
Alfred Wegener Institute, Heimholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Marine Geochemistry, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Matt O'Regan
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden
Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden
Örjan Gustafsson
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Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 11418, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden
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Sea ice is an important regulator of the Arctic climate systems. Records of sea ice past instrumental records are necessary to understand how sea ice is altered during past periods of abrupt climate change, and what consequences such changes have on the polar climates. Here, we reconstructed the sea ice cover of the East Siberian Arctic and found that the sea ice extent likely was linked to protecting/eroding permafrost coastlines during the last deglaciation.
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