Wilkes subglacial basin ice sheet response to Southern Ocean warming during late Pleistocene interglacials

Ilaria Crotti; Aurélien Quiquet; Amaelle Landais; Barbara Stenni; David J. Wilson; Mirko Severi; Robert Mulvaney; Frank Wilhelms; Carlo Barbante; Massimo Frezzotti

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32847-3

Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Wilkes subglacial basin ice sheet response to Southern Ocean warming during late Pleistocene interglacials

Ilaria Crotti,
Aurélien Quiquet,
Amaelle Landais,
Barbara Stenni,
David J. Wilson,
Mirko Severi,
Robert Mulvaney,
Frank Wilhelms,
Carlo Barbante,
Massimo Frezzotti

Affiliations

Ilaria Crotti: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University
Aurélien Quiquet: NumClim Solutions
Amaelle Landais: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay
Barbara Stenni: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University
David J. Wilson: Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University College London and Birkbeck, University of London
Mirko Severi: Institute for Polar Sciences (ISP), CNR
Robert Mulvaney: British Antarctic Survey
Frank Wilhelms: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung
Carlo Barbante: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University
Massimo Frezzotti: Department of Science, Roma Tre University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32847-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Crotti et al. reconstructed the dynamics of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin (Antarctica) during the past 350,000 years. Their study reveals that a portion of the East Antarctic ice sheet experienced an extensive retreat 330,000 years ago.

Published in Nature Communications

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