Modelling the Antarctic Ice Sheet across the mid-Pleistocene transition implications for Oldest Ice

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Sutter, J., Fischer, H., Grosfeld, K., Karlsson, N.B., Kleiner, T., Van Liefferinge, B., Eisen, O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Dome Fuji; Endeavour; Antarc*; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/343998.pdf

The international endeavour to retrieve a continuous ice core, which spans the middle Pleistocene climate transition ca. 1.2-0.9 Myr ago, encompasses a multitude of field and model-based pre-site surveys. We expand on the current efforts to locate a suitable drilling site for the oldest Antarctic ic...