The role of regional feedbacks in glacial inception on Baffin Island: the interaction of ice flow and meteorology

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: L. Birch, T. Cronin, E. Tziperman
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Environmental pollution; TD172-193.5; Environmental protection; TD169-171.8; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Baffin Island; Kya; Baffin; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1441-2018; https://doaj.org/article/6be148c306694ea1ac4f6d0c26fc6c73

Over the past 0.8 million years, 100 kyr ice ages have dominated Earth's climate with geological evidence suggesting the last glacial inception began in the mountains of Baffin Island. Currently, state-of-the-art global climate models (GCMs) have difficulty simulating glacial inception, possibl...