Sea ice and millennial-scale climate variability in the Nordic seas 90 kyr ago to present

Ulrike Hoff; Tine L. Rasmussen; Ruediger Stein; Mohamed M. Ezat; Kirsten Fahl

doi:10.1038/ncomms12247

Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Sea ice and millennial-scale climate variability in the Nordic seas 90 kyr ago to present

Ulrike Hoff,
Tine L. Rasmussen,
Ruediger Stein,
Mohamed M. Ezat,
Kirsten Fahl

Affiliations

Ulrike Hoff: Department of Geology, CAGE—Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway
Tine L. Rasmussen: Department of Geology, CAGE—Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway
Ruediger Stein: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Mohamed M. Ezat: Department of Geology, CAGE—Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway
Kirsten Fahl: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12247
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The response of Arctic sea-ice to rapid climatic change in the past remains uncertain. Here, the authors use biomarkers and microfossils to reconstruct Arctic sea-ice changes over the past 90,000 years, and demonstrate millennial-scale variability.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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