Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2021)

The potential of Hudson Valley glacial floods to drive abrupt climate change

  • Simon Pendleton,
  • Alan Condron,
  • Jeffrey Donnelly

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00228-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

Read online

Drainage of Glacial Lake Iroquois via the Hudson Valley about 13,300 years ago did not weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation substantially, suggests a suite of simulations with a global-ocean general circulation model.