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Links between climate and sea levels for the past three million years

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  • Kurt Lambeck

    (Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
    Swedish Research Council and Lund University)

  • Tezer M. Esat

    (Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University)

  • Emma-Kate Potter

    (Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University)

Abstract

The oscillations between glacial and interglacial climate conditions over the past three million years have been characterized by a transfer of immense amounts of water between two of its largest reservoirs on Earth — the ice sheets and the oceans. Since the latest of these oscillations, the Last Glacial Maximum (between about 30,000 and 19,000 years ago), ∼50 million cubic kilometres of ice has melted from the land-based ice sheets, raising global sea level by ∼130 metres. Such rapid changes in sea level are part of a complex pattern of interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets and solid earth, all of which have different response timescales. The trigger for the sea-level fluctuations most probably lies with changes in insolation, caused by astronomical forcing, but internal feedback cycles complicate the simple model of causes and effects.

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  • Kurt Lambeck & Tezer M. Esat & Emma-Kate Potter, 2002. "Links between climate and sea levels for the past three million years," Nature, Nature, vol. 419(6903), pages 199-206, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:419:y:2002:i:6903:d:10.1038_nature01089
    DOI: 10.1038/nature01089
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