Relative Timing of Deglacial Climate Events in Antarctica and Greenland

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Morgan, Vin, Delmotte, Marc, van Ommen, Tas, Jouzel, Jean, Chappellaz, Jérôme, Woon, Suenor, Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Raynaud, Dominique
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; Law Dome; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; North Atlantic; North atlantic Thermohaline circulation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1074257; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1074257

The last deglaciation was marked by large, hemispheric, millennial-scale climate variations: the Bølling-Allerød and Younger Dryas periods in the north, and the Antarctic Cold Reversal in the south. A chronology from the high-accumulation Law Dome East Antarctic ice core constrains the relative timi...