Abstract:
The file contains Southern Hemisphere winter (September) sea ice concentration (sic) from a simulation performed using the isotope-enabled HadCM3 climate model forced with early last interglacial boundary conditions, centred approximately 128,000 years ago. The resulting sic represents a reduction in winter sea ice area of approximately 54% relative to pre-industrial and is proposed as the best explanation for the Antarctic ice core data from 128,000 years ago. The spatial pattern of sea ice retreat was determined using a large ensemble of model experiments and a pattern search optimization approach to match the last interglacial ice core isotope peak. Further details can be found in the published manuscript (https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074594).
This work was funded by NERC grants NE/P009271/1, NE/P013279/1, and NE/K004514/1.
Keywords:
Antarctic, Ice core, Isotope, Last interglacial, Southern Hemisphere sea ice
| Creation Date: | 2018-05-23 |
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| Originating Center: | BAS/PDC/undefined |
| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | Dr Max Holloway |
| Role(s) | Technical Contact, Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Louise Sime |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |