TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulating arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation
AU - Otto-Bliesner, Bette L.
AU - Marshall, Shawn J.
AU - Overpeck, Jonathan T.
AU - Miller, Gifford H.
AU - Hu, Aixue
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006/3/24
Y1 - 2006/3/24
N2 - In the future, Arctic warming and the melting of polar glaciers will be considerable, but the magnitude of both is uncertain. We used a global climate model, a dynamic ice sheet model, and paleoclimatic data to evaluate Northern Hemisphere high-latitude warming and its impact on Arctic icefields during the Last Interglaciation. Our simulated climate matches paleoclimatic observations of past warming, and the combination of physically based climate and ice-sheet modeling with ice-core constraints indicate that the Greenland Ice Sheet and other circum-Arctic ice fields likely contributed 2.2 to 3.4 meters of sea-level rise during the Last Interglaciation.
AB - In the future, Arctic warming and the melting of polar glaciers will be considerable, but the magnitude of both is uncertain. We used a global climate model, a dynamic ice sheet model, and paleoclimatic data to evaluate Northern Hemisphere high-latitude warming and its impact on Arctic icefields during the Last Interglaciation. Our simulated climate matches paleoclimatic observations of past warming, and the combination of physically based climate and ice-sheet modeling with ice-core constraints indicate that the Greenland Ice Sheet and other circum-Arctic ice fields likely contributed 2.2 to 3.4 meters of sea-level rise during the Last Interglaciation.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1120808
DO - 10.1126/science.1120808
M3 - Article
C2 - 16556838
AN - SCOPUS:33645234719
VL - 311
SP - 1751
EP - 1753
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 5768
ER -