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Migration of the subtropical front as a modulator of glacial climate [1]

Ice cores extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet suggest that glacial conditions and the relationship between temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have been constant over the last 800,000 years, but there is some evidence for a fluctuating severity of glacial periods mediated by previously unidentified mechanisms.

Publication Date: 
16/07/2009
Edouard Bard [2], Rosalind E. M. Rickaby [3]
Nature [4]
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7258
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Tags:
Oceans and Seas [5], Indian Ocean [6], North Atlantic Ocean [7], South Atlantic Ocean [8], Sedimentation [9], Carbon Dioxide [10], Climate Change [11], Climate Science [12], Antarctica [13]
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