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Modelled atmospheric temperatures and global sea levels over the past million years

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  • Richard Bintanja

    (Utrecht University)

  • Roderik S.W. van de Wal

    (Utrecht University)

  • Johannes Oerlemans

    (Utrecht University)

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Climate ups and downs The climate has passed through a series of glacials and interglacials over the past million years, but the nature of this cyclicity (in terms of temperature, ice volume and sea level), and the underlying causes, are not well known. Bintanja et al. use a new method to deduce a one-million-year time series of these variables. The reconstructed records are much longer than other methods have provided for any of these variables individually. The most intense glacial stages were 17 °C colder than today, and most of the continental ice was present in North America. Strong cooling in the beginning of glacials was found to precede ice-sheet build-up. These findings may shed light on the causes of ice age cycles.

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  • Richard Bintanja & Roderik S.W. van de Wal & Johannes Oerlemans, 2005. "Modelled atmospheric temperatures and global sea levels over the past million years," Nature, Nature, vol. 437(7055), pages 125-128, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:437:y:2005:i:7055:d:10.1038_nature03975
    DOI: 10.1038/nature03975
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