Sudden climatic change (scientific note)

• Main Author: Roy M. Koerner
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada 2001
• Subjects: Agassiz Ice Cap; Greenland; Dansgaard-Oeschger events; Dye 3; Dye-3; GRIP; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=2375; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00002375/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=2375&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Studies of ice cores have shown that sudden climate changes (using δ^<18>O as a temperature proxy), were a common feature of past climate. Interplay between the Atlantic "conveyor belt"(or Thermohaline Circulation) and ice sheet melt-water is seen as the factor responsible for at lea...