Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

MIS-11 duration key to disappearance of the Greenland ice sheet

  • Alexander Robinson,
  • Jorge Alvarez-Solas,
  • Reinhard Calov,
  • Andrey Ganopolski,
  • Marisa Montoya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The most pronounced deglaciation of Greenland of the last several hundred thousand years occurred during Marine Isotope Stage 11. Here, the authors show that it was the exceptional duration of the interglacial period that allowed Greenland to melt even though temperatures were only moderately warmer than today.