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SUBMITTER: Hu A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3340043 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hu Aixue A Meehl Gerald A GA Han Weiqing W Timmermann Axel A Otto-Bliesner Bette B Liu Zhengyu Z Washington Warren M WM Large William W Abe-Ouchi Ayako A Kimoto Masahide M Lambeck Kurt K Wu Bingyi B
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120409 17
Abrupt climate transitions, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events, occurred frequently during the last glacial period, specifically from 80-11 thousand years before present, but were nearly absent during interglacial periods and the early stages of glacial periods, when major ice-sheets were still forming. Here we show, with a fully coupled state-of-the-art climate model, that closing the Bering Strait and preventing its throughflow between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans during the glac ...[more]