Links between climate and sea levels for the past three million years

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Sep 2002

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Nature, Volume 419, Issue 6903, pp. 199-206 (2002).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The oscillations between glacial and interglacial climate conditions over the past three million years have been characterized by a transfer of immense amounts of water between two of its largest reservoirs on Earth - the ice sheets and the oceans. Since the latest of these oscillations, the Last Glacial Maximum (between about 30,000 and 19,000 years ago), ~50 million cubic kilometres of ice has melted from the land-based ice sheets, raising global sea level by ~130 metres. Such rapid changes in sea level are part of a complex pattern of interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets and solid earth, all of which have different response timescales. The trigger for the sea-level fluctuations most probably lies with changes in insolation, caused by astronomical forcing, but internal feedback cycles complicate the simple model of causes and effects.

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