What was the surface temperature in central Antarctica during the last glacial maximum?

• Main Authors: Thomas Blunier A, Jakob Schw, Er A
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: ice core; Antarctic temperature; gas occlusion; last glacial maximum; Antarctic; Byrd; Byrd Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.533.9527; http://ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/twimberley/EnviroPhilo/SurfaceTemp.pdf

The temperature increase at Vostok (Antarctica) from the last glacial maximum to the present warm period is about 8‡C based on the deuterium isotope profile. The bore hole temperature (temperature profile in the ice sheet) indicates that the temperature difference may have been much larger, about 15...