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Insolation-driven 100,000-year glacial cycles and hysteresis of ice-sheet volume

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  • Ayako Abe-Ouchi

    (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568, Japan
    Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan
    National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan)

  • Fuyuki Saito

    (Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan)

  • Kenji Kawamura

    (National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
    Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan)

  • Maureen E. Raymo

    (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)

  • Jun’ichi Okuno

    (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568, Japan
    Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan
    National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan)

  • Kunio Takahashi

    (Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan)

  • Heinz Blatter

    (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568, Japan
    Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland)

Abstract

Comprehensive climate and ice-sheet models show that insolation and internal feedbacks between the climate, the ice sheets and the lithosphere–asthenosphere system explain the 100,000-year period on which the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets grow and shrink.

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  • Ayako Abe-Ouchi & Fuyuki Saito & Kenji Kawamura & Maureen E. Raymo & Jun’ichi Okuno & Kunio Takahashi & Heinz Blatter, 2013. "Insolation-driven 100,000-year glacial cycles and hysteresis of ice-sheet volume," Nature, Nature, vol. 500(7461), pages 190-193, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:500:y:2013:i:7461:d:10.1038_nature12374
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12374
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    1. Gagan Mandal & Jia-Yuh Yu & Shih-Yu Lee, 2022. "The Roles of Orbital and Meltwater Climate Forcings on the Southern Ocean Dynamics during the Last Deglaciation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-17, March.
    2. Dawei Li & Robert M. DeConto & David Pollard & Yongyun Hu, 2024. "Competing climate feedbacks of ice sheet freshwater discharge in a warming world," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, December.
    3. James Walsh & Esther Widiasih, 2020. "A Discontinuous ODE Model of the Glacial Cycles with Diffusive Heat Transport," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-24, March.

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