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Sensitivity of interglacial Greenland temperature and δ18O: ice core data, orbital and increased CO2 climate simulations
V. Masson-Delmotte
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
P. Braconnot
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
G. Hoffmann
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
J. Jouzel
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
M. Kageyama
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
A. Landais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Q. Lejeune
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
C. Risi
CIRES, U. Colorado, Boulder, USA
L. Sime
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
J. Sjolte
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
D. Swingedouw
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
B. Vinther
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Subject: Climate Modelling | Archive: Ice Cores | Timescale: Milankovitch
Effects of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) sea surface temperature and sea ice extent on the isotope–temperature slope at polar ice core sites
Alexandre Cauquoin, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Takashi Obase, Wing-Le Chan, André Paul, and Martin Werner
Clim. Past, 19, 1275–1294, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1275-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1275-2023, 2023
Short summary
Short summary
Stable water isotopes are tracers of climate processes occurring in the hydrological cycle. They are widely used to reconstruct the past variations of polar temperature before the instrumental era thanks to their measurements in ice cores. However, the relationship between measured isotopes and temperature has large uncertainties. In our study, we investigate how the sea surface conditions (temperature, sea ice, ocean circulation) impact this relationship for a cold to warm climate change.
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