Relative Timing of Deglacial Climate Events in Antarctica and Greenland

The last deglaciation was marked by large, hemispheric, millennial-scale climate variations: the Blling-Allerd and Younger Dryas periods in the north, and the Antarctic Cold Reversal in the south. A chronology from the high-accumulation Law Dome East Antarctic ice core constrains the relative timing...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Morgan, VI, Delmotte, M, van Ommen, TD, Jouzel, J, Chappellaz, J, Woon, S, Masson-Delmotte, V, Raynaud, D
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2002
Subjects:
Chemical Sciences
Analytical Chemistry
Separation Science
Antarctic
Greenland
Law Dome
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
ice core
North Atlantic
North atlantic Thermohaline circulation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1074257
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12228715
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/26206
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Summary:The last deglaciation was marked by large, hemispheric, millennial-scale climate variations: the Blling-Allerd and Younger Dryas periods in the north, and the Antarctic Cold Reversal in the south. A chronology from the high-accumulation Law Dome East Antarctic ice core constrains the relative timing of these two events and provides strong evidence that the cooling at the start of the Antarctic Cold Reversal did not follow the abrupt warming during the northern Boiling transition around 14,500 years ago. This result suggests that southern changes are not a direct response to abrupt changes in North Atlantic thermohaline circulation, as is assumed in the conventional picture of a hemispheric temperature seesaw.

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