Modelling the Onset of Northern and Southern Hemisphere Glaciation

• Main Authors: Stepanek, Christian, Lohmann, Gerrit, Knorr, Gregor
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Drake Passage; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/23192/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.35963

The Cenozoic is characterized by a change from early Cenozoic greenhouse conditions to the presence of abundant ice sheets in the late Eocene and early Oligocene. As yet, the simulation of this transition remains a challenge and the understanding of trigger mechanisms is limited. In the climate hist...