A relief-specific model of the ice age on the basis of uplift-controlled glacier areas in Tibet and the corresponding albedo increase as well as their positive climatological feedback by means of the global radiation geometry
The onset of the ice age era at similar to2.75 Ma BP and its increasing intensity from similar to1 Ma BP onwards cannot be explained by variations of the Earth's orbit. Evidence supporting a 2.4 million km(2) ice sheet on the Tibetan plateau during the Last Glacial Maximum has led to the hypoth...
| Published in: | Climate Research |
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2002
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| Online Access: | https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/44238 https://doi.org/10.3354/cr020001 |
| Summary: | The onset of the ice age era at similar to2.75 Ma BP and its increasing intensity from similar to1 Ma BP onwards cannot be explained by variations of the Earth's orbit. Evidence supporting a 2.4 million km(2) ice sheet on the Tibetan plateau during the Last Glacial Maximum has led to the hypothesis that the resulting albedo-induced heat loss in the Earth's atmosphere may have triggered global ice ages. Recent data obtained from marine and terrestrial sediment records now confirm the climatice-cological impact of a Tibetan glaciation; they also show that the development of Tibet's ice sheet was synchronous with the onset and intensification of global ice ages. |
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