Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core
Efforts to extract a Greenland ice core with a complete record of the Eemian interglacial (130,000 to 115,000 years ago) have until now been unsuccessful. The response of the Greenland ice sheet to the warmer-than-present climate of the Eemian has thus remained unclear. Here we present the new North...
Published in: | Nature |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2013
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://phrepo.phbern.ch/7180/ |
id |
ftphbern:oai:phrepo.phbern.ch:7180 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftphbern:oai:phrepo.phbern.ch:7180 2024-04-14T08:04:33+00:00 Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core NEEM Community Members Bigler, Matthias Stowasser, Olivia 2013 application/pdf https://phrepo.phbern.ch/7180/ eng eng https://phrepo.phbern.ch/7180/1/nature11789.pdf NEEM Community Members; Bigler, Matthias; Stowasser, Olivia (2013). Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core. Nature, 493 (7433), pp. 489-494. 10.1038/nature11789 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11789> 10.1038/nature11789 0028-0836 https://phrepo.phbern.ch/7180/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess NEEM Community Members; Bigler, Matthias; Stowasser, Olivia (2013). Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core. Nature, 493 (7433), pp. 489-494. 10.1038/nature11789 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11789> info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2013 ftphbern https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11789 2024-03-18T18:14:55Z Efforts to extract a Greenland ice core with a complete record of the Eemian interglacial (130,000 to 115,000 years ago) have until now been unsuccessful. The response of the Greenland ice sheet to the warmer-than-present climate of the Eemian has thus remained unclear. Here we present the new North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (‘NEEM’) ice core and show only a modest ice-sheet response to the strong warming in the early Eemian. We reconstructed the Eemian record from folded ice using globally homogeneous parameters known from dated Greenland and Antarctic ice-core records. On the basis of water stable isotopes, NEEM surface temperatures after the onset of the Eemian (126,000 years ago) peaked at 8 ± 4 degrees Celsius above the mean of the past millennium, followed by a gradual cooling that was probably driven by the decreasing summer insolation. Between 128,000 and 122,000 years ago, the thickness of the northwest Greenland ice sheet decreased by 400 ± 250 metres, reaching surface elevations 122,000 years ago of 130 ± 300 metres lower than the present. Extensive surface melt occurred at the NEEM site during the Eemian, a phenomenon witnessed when melt layers formed again at NEEM during the exceptional heat of July 2012. With additional warming, surface melt might become more common in the future. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Greenland ice core ice core Ice Sheet North Greenland REPO PHBern (Open Access Repository Bern University of Teacher Education) Antarctic Greenland Nature 493 7433 489 494 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
REPO PHBern (Open Access Repository Bern University of Teacher Education) |
op_collection_id |
ftphbern |
language |
English |
description |
Efforts to extract a Greenland ice core with a complete record of the Eemian interglacial (130,000 to 115,000 years ago) have until now been unsuccessful. The response of the Greenland ice sheet to the warmer-than-present climate of the Eemian has thus remained unclear. Here we present the new North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (‘NEEM’) ice core and show only a modest ice-sheet response to the strong warming in the early Eemian. We reconstructed the Eemian record from folded ice using globally homogeneous parameters known from dated Greenland and Antarctic ice-core records. On the basis of water stable isotopes, NEEM surface temperatures after the onset of the Eemian (126,000 years ago) peaked at 8 ± 4 degrees Celsius above the mean of the past millennium, followed by a gradual cooling that was probably driven by the decreasing summer insolation. Between 128,000 and 122,000 years ago, the thickness of the northwest Greenland ice sheet decreased by 400 ± 250 metres, reaching surface elevations 122,000 years ago of 130 ± 300 metres lower than the present. Extensive surface melt occurred at the NEEM site during the Eemian, a phenomenon witnessed when melt layers formed again at NEEM during the exceptional heat of July 2012. With additional warming, surface melt might become more common in the future. |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
NEEM Community Members Bigler, Matthias Stowasser, Olivia |
spellingShingle |
NEEM Community Members Bigler, Matthias Stowasser, Olivia Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core |
author_facet |
NEEM Community Members Bigler, Matthias Stowasser, Olivia |
author_sort |
NEEM Community Members |
title |
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core |
title_short |
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core |
title_full |
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core |
title_fullStr |
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core |
title_full_unstemmed |
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core |
title_sort |
eemian interglacial reconstructed from a greenland folded ice core |
publishDate |
2013 |
url |
https://phrepo.phbern.ch/7180/ |
geographic |
Antarctic Greenland |
geographic_facet |
Antarctic Greenland |
genre |
Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Greenland ice core ice core Ice Sheet North Greenland |
genre_facet |
Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Greenland ice core ice core Ice Sheet North Greenland |
op_source |
NEEM Community Members; Bigler, Matthias; Stowasser, Olivia (2013). Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core. Nature, 493 (7433), pp. 489-494. 10.1038/nature11789 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11789> |
op_relation |
https://phrepo.phbern.ch/7180/1/nature11789.pdf NEEM Community Members; Bigler, Matthias; Stowasser, Olivia (2013). Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core. Nature, 493 (7433), pp. 489-494. 10.1038/nature11789 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11789> 10.1038/nature11789 0028-0836 https://phrepo.phbern.ch/7180/ |
op_rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11789 |
container_title |
Nature |
container_volume |
493 |
container_issue |
7433 |
container_start_page |
489 |
op_container_end_page |
494 |
_version_ |
1796301152567951360 |