The Greenland ice sheet through the last glacial-interglacial cycle
The evolution of the Greenland ice sheet during the last 150,000 years, in response to a climate history derived from a Greenland ice-margin oxygen-18 record,is simulated by means of a three-dimensional, time-dependent ice-sheet model. The calculations indicate that the ice sheet displayed considera...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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1991
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| Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1953/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1953/1/Let1991b.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12545 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12545.d001 |
| Summary: | The evolution of the Greenland ice sheet during the last 150,000 years, in response to a climate history derived from a Greenland ice-margin oxygen-18 record,is simulated by means of a three-dimensional, time-dependent ice-sheet model. The calculations indicate that the ice sheet displayed considerable thinning andice-margin retreat during the last interglacial (the Eemian) and during a warm interstadial c. 100,000 yr B.P., resulting in splitting up of the ice sheet into acentral-northern and a southern part. However, the ice sheet in Central Greenland survived the warm stages with almost unchanged surface elevations ascompared with the present. |
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