The role of ocean and atmospheric dynamics in the marine-based collapse of the last Eurasian Ice Sheet

Hans Petter Sejrup; Berit Oline Hjelstuen; Henry Patton; Mariana Esteves; Monica Winsborrow; Tine Lander Rasmussen; Karin Andreassen; Alun Hubbard

doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00447-0

Communications Earth & Environment (May 2022)

The role of ocean and atmospheric dynamics in the marine-based collapse of the last Eurasian Ice Sheet

Hans Petter Sejrup,
Berit Oline Hjelstuen,
Henry Patton,
Mariana Esteves,
Monica Winsborrow,
Tine Lander Rasmussen,
Karin Andreassen,
Alun Hubbard

Affiliations

Hans Petter Sejrup: Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen
Berit Oline Hjelstuen: Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen
Henry Patton: Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Mariana Esteves: Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Monica Winsborrow: Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Tine Lander Rasmussen: Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Karin Andreassen: Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Alun Hubbard: Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00447-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The last deglaciation of the marine parts of the Eurasian Ice Sheet was driven mainly by oceanic temperature change in the north and by changes in solar insolation in the south, based on a reconstruction of the marine parts of the Eurasian Ice Sheet and Nordic Seas palaeoceanographic data.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsenv/

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