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Causes of abrupt climate change

What caused abrupt climate swings known as the Dansgaard-Oeschger events of the last ice age?

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The Northern Seas. Purple arrows represent surface currents, dashed orange arrows deep currents, and SPG the subpolar gyre. Shading shows annual mean sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration.
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Camille Li and Anders Born

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Av Camille LiPublisert: 18.01.2019

In this review, we speculate that the subpolar North Atlantic hit a sweet spot, possible in a glacial world but not today, where positive feedbacks between winds, sea ice and ocean circulation created large, sustained climate oscillations.

Reference

Camille Li, Andreas Born: Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics in Dansgaard-Oeschger events,Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 203, 2019,Pages 1-20,ISSN 0277-3791, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.031.

This is also publised at the web-pages of The Bjerknes Centre for climate research.