Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial
Notoriety of the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial arises from its long duration, extending over two precessional cycles, high sea level, and persistence of high atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The strong climatic response is often considered paradoxical because it was attained under weak...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:10147397 2023-12-24T10:11:30+01:00 Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial Tzedakis, Polychronis C Hodell, David A Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph Mitsui, Takahito Wolff, Eric W 2022-05-15 text https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147397/1/Tzedakis_Marine%20Isotope%20Stage%2011c_VoR.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147397/ eng eng Elsevier BV https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147397/1/Tzedakis_Marine%20Isotope%20Stage%2011c_VoR.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147397/ open Quaternary Science Reviews , 284 , Article 107493. (2022) Interglacial MIS 11c Insolation forcing Sea level rise CO2 Ice sheets Article 2022 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:32Z Notoriety of the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial arises from its long duration, extending over two precessional cycles, high sea level, and persistence of high atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The strong climatic response is often considered paradoxical because it was attained under weak boreal summer insolation forcing, a function of an extended eccentricity minimum and of precession and obliquity being almost opposite in phase. Here, we trace the characteristics of MIS 11c and explore their most likely causes. MIS 11c was preceded by the largest Quaternary ice volume expansion of MIS 12, which ended with a long period of ice rafting and interhemispheric heat transfer. We suggest that the duration of MIS 12 and the size of ice sheets exceeded a critical threshold that triggered a deglaciation despite the weak insolation forcing. The weak forcing led to a slow but steady loss of ice volume, that was sufficient to allow ocean outgassing of CO2, but insufficient to raise sea level within a single precessional cycle. This gave rise to a prolonged interval with large residual ice sheets and high CO2 concentrations that is unique in the last 800,000 years. The obliquity-precession antiphasing produced a weak boreal summer insolation minimum, skipping a glacial inception and leading to continued sea-level rise and high CO2 concentrations, sustained by carbonate compensation. Full interglacial conditions were achieved in the second precessional cycle, and the combined strength and length of the interglacial probably led to loss of some Greenland and Antarctic ice compared to other interglacials. While MIS 11c is highly unusual in many respects, these appear to be linked to each other through the very weak insolation forcing, which led to its extended duration, slow sea-level rise and stable CO2 concentrations through a cocktail of counteracting carbon cycle processes. Although some of these features are also encountered in other interglacials, their combination with strong interglacial intensity is unique to ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Greenland University College London: UCL Discovery Antarctic Greenland |
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Notoriety of the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial arises from its long duration, extending over two precessional cycles, high sea level, and persistence of high atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The strong climatic response is often considered paradoxical because it was attained under weak boreal summer insolation forcing, a function of an extended eccentricity minimum and of precession and obliquity being almost opposite in phase. Here, we trace the characteristics of MIS 11c and explore their most likely causes. MIS 11c was preceded by the largest Quaternary ice volume expansion of MIS 12, which ended with a long period of ice rafting and interhemispheric heat transfer. We suggest that the duration of MIS 12 and the size of ice sheets exceeded a critical threshold that triggered a deglaciation despite the weak insolation forcing. The weak forcing led to a slow but steady loss of ice volume, that was sufficient to allow ocean outgassing of CO2, but insufficient to raise sea level within a single precessional cycle. This gave rise to a prolonged interval with large residual ice sheets and high CO2 concentrations that is unique in the last 800,000 years. The obliquity-precession antiphasing produced a weak boreal summer insolation minimum, skipping a glacial inception and leading to continued sea-level rise and high CO2 concentrations, sustained by carbonate compensation. Full interglacial conditions were achieved in the second precessional cycle, and the combined strength and length of the interglacial probably led to loss of some Greenland and Antarctic ice compared to other interglacials. While MIS 11c is highly unusual in many respects, these appear to be linked to each other through the very weak insolation forcing, which led to its extended duration, slow sea-level rise and stable CO2 concentrations through a cocktail of counteracting carbon cycle processes. Although some of these features are also encountered in other interglacials, their combination with strong interglacial intensity is unique to ... |
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Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial |
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Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial |
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Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial |
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Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial |
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Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial |
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marine isotope stage 11c: an unusual interglacial |
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https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147397/1/Tzedakis_Marine%20Isotope%20Stage%2011c_VoR.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147397/ |
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