Decadal-scale onset and termination of Antarctic ice-mass loss during the last deglaciation

Michael E. Weber; Nicholas R. Golledge; Chris J. Fogwill; Chris S. M. Turney; Zoë A. Thomas

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27053-6

Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Decadal-scale onset and termination of Antarctic ice-mass loss during the last deglaciation

Michael E. Weber,
Nicholas R. Golledge,
Chris J. Fogwill,
Chris S. M. Turney,
Zoë A. Thomas

Affiliations

Michael E. Weber: Institute for Geosciences, Department of Geochemistry and Petrology, University of Bonn
Nicholas R. Golledge: Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
Chris J. Fogwill: School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Keele
Chris S. M. Turney: Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales
Zoë A. Thomas: Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27053-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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It may have taken only a decade to repeatedly destabilize the Antarctic Ice Sheet after the last Ice Age as shown by a new data-model study. The ice sheet lost ice for centuries each time before it abruptly re-stabilized again.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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