Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Enhanced ice sheet melting driven by volcanic eruptions during the last deglaciation

  • Francesco Muschitiello,
  • Francesco S. R. Pausata,
  • James M. Lea,
  • Douglas W. F. Mair,
  • Barbara Wohlfarth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01273-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The impact of volcanism on ice sheet melting during the last deglaciation is poorly understood and limited by a lack of suitable proxies. Here, the authors combine annually resolved records of ice sheet melting with numerical models to show that ice sheets are sensitive to high-latitude volcanic eruptions.