The sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to a changing climate: Past, present, and future

TL Noble, EJ Rohling, ARA Aitken… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐
enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and ice sheet models reveal that the …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica

RM DeConto, D Pollard, RB Alley, I Velicogna… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean warming in the twenty-first century to
less than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, and to promote further efforts to limit …

Comparison and synthesis of sea‐level and deep‐sea temperature variations over the past 40 million years

EJ Rohling, GL Foster, TM Gernon… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global ice volume (sea level) and deep‐sea temperature are key measures of Earth's
climatic state. We synthesize evidence for multi‐centennial to millennial ice‐volume and …

Mid-Pleistocene climate transition triggered by Antarctic Ice Sheet growth

Z An, W Zhou, Z Zhang, X Zhang, Z Liu, Y Sun… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Despite extensive investigation, the nature and causes of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
remain enigmatic. In this work, we assess its linkage to asynchronous development of …

Twenty first century changes in Antarctic and Southern Ocean surface climate in CMIP6

TJ Bracegirdle, G Krinner, M Tonelli… - Atmospheric Science …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Two decades into the 21st century there is growing evidence for global impacts of Antarctic
and Southern Ocean climate change. Reliable estimates of how the Antarctic climate system …

Sea level and deep-sea temperature reconstructions suggest quasi-stable states and critical transitions over the past 40 million years

EJ Rohling, J Yu, D Heslop, GL Foster, B Opdyke… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Sea level and deep-sea temperature variations are key indicators of global climate changes.
For continuous records over millions of years, deep-sea carbonate microfossil–based δ18O …

Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

CSM Turney, CJ Fogwill, NR Golledge… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The future response of the Antarctic ice sheet to rising temperatures remains highly
uncertain. A useful period for assessing the sensitivity of Antarctica to warming is the Last …

Last interglacial global mean sea level from high-precision U-series ages of Bahamian fossil coral reefs

OA Dumitru, B Dyer, J Austermann… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Accurate characterization of Last Interglacial (MIS 5e;∼ 129–116 ka) sea level is
important for understanding ice sheet sensitivity to climate change, with implications for …

Constraining the contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Last Interglacial sea level

RL Barnett, J Austermann, B Dyer, MW Telfer… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Polar temperatures during the Last Interglacial [LIG;~ 129 to 116 thousand years (ka)] were
warmer than today, making this time period an important testing ground to better understand …