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

Ayako Abe-Ouchi (), Fuyuki Saito, Kenji Kawamura, Maureen E. Raymo, Jun’ichi Okuno, Kunio Takahashi and Heinz Blatter
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Ayako Abe-Ouchi: Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568, 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
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
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

Nature, 2013, vol. 500, issue 7461, 190-193

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.

Date: 2013
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