Growth of Antarctic ice sheet triggered warming in the Southern Ocean during Miocene
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2014 - Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have deciphered a supposed climate paradox from the Miocene era by means of complex model simulations. When the Antarctic ice sheet grew to its present-day size around 14 million years ago, it did not get colder everywhere on the Earth, but there were regions that became warmer. A physical con ... more

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