West Antarctic ice coring: A high‐resolution study of climate change

Richard B. Alley

doi:10.1029/91EO00088

West Antarctic ice coring: A high‐resolution study of climate change

Richard B. Alley

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How do ice ages end? Is it a carefully phased process, with orbital variations of the Earth causing carbon dioxide to rise in the atmosphere, Southern Hemisphere ocean temperatures to rise, then ice sheets to melt and Northern Hemisphere oceans to warm [Imbrie et al., 1989]? Or does something throw a switch, causing a change from “glacial” to “interglacial” mode in a few short years or decades [Broecker and Denton, 1989]? And does the switch jiggle a few times first, giving rise to the Younger Dryas and the older Dansgaard‐Oeschger events?

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	115-116
Number of pages	2
Journal	Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Volume	73
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/91EO00088
State	Published - Mar 17 1992

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