Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history

Robert Mulvaney (), Nerilie J. Abram, Richard C. A. Hindmarsh, Carol Arrowsmith, Louise Fleet, Jack Triest, Louise C. Sime, Olivier Alemany and Susan Foord
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Robert Mulvaney: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council
Nerilie J. Abram: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council
Richard C. A. Hindmarsh: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council
Carol Arrowsmith: NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory
Louise Fleet: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council
Jack Triest: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council
Louise C. Sime: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council
Olivier Alemany: UJF – Grenoble 1/CNRS, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE) UMR 5183, Grenoble F-38041, France
Susan Foord: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council

Nature, 2012, vol. 489, issue 7414, 141-144

Abstract: An ice-core record from the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula shows that the present warming period in the region is unusual in the context of natural climate variability over the past two thousand years, and that continued warming could cause ice-shelf instability farther south along the peninsula.

Date: 2012
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