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  Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial

Tzedakis, P. C., Hodell, D. A., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Mitsui, T., Wolff, E. W. (2022): Marine Isotope Stage 11c: An unusual interglacial. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 284, 107493.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107493

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Tzedakis, Polychronis C.1, Author
Hodell, David A.1, Author
Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph1, Author
Mitsui, Takahito2, Author              
Wolff, Eric W.1, Author
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2Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, ou_persistent13              

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Free keywords: Interglacial MIS 11c Insolation forcing Sea level rise CO2 Ice sheets
 Abstract: Notoriety of the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial arises from its long duration, extending over two precessional cycles, high sea level, and persistence of high atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The strong climatic response is often considered paradoxical because it was attained under weak boreal summer insolation forcing, a function of an extended eccentricity minimum and of precession and obliquity being almost opposite in phase. Here, we trace the characteristics of MIS 11c and explore their most likely causes. MIS 11c was preceded by the largest Quaternary ice volume expansion of MIS 12, which ended with a long period of ice rafting and interhemispheric heat transfer. We suggest that the duration of MIS 12 and the size of ice sheets exceeded a critical threshold that triggered a deglaciation despite the weak insolation forcing. The weak forcing led to a slow but steady loss of ice volume, that was sufficient to allow ocean outgassing of CO2, but insufficient to raise sea level within a single precessional cycle. This gave rise to a prolonged interval with large residual ice sheets and high CO2 concentrations that is unique in the last 800,000 years. The obliquity-precession antiphasing produced a weak boreal summer insolation minimum, skipping a glacial inception and leading to continued sea-level rise and high CO2 concentrations, sustained by carbonate compensation. Full interglacial conditions were ach- ieved in the second precessional cycle, and the combined strength and length of the interglacial probably led to loss of some Greenland and Antarctic ice compared to other interglacials. While MIS 11c is highly unusual in many respects, these appear to be linked to each other through the very weak insolation forcing, which led to its extended duration, slow sea-level rise and stable CO2 concentrations through a cocktail of counteracting carbon cycle processes. Although some of these features are also encountered in other interglacials, their combination with strong interglacial intensity is unique to MIS 11c and this appears to be a function of the large MIS 12 ice sheets and the high CO2 concentrations from the beginning of the interglacial.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2022-04-012022-04-062022-05-15
 Publication Status: Finally published
 Pages: 14
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107493
PIKDOMAIN: RD4 - Complexity Science
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Organisational keyword: FutureLab - Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene
Research topic keyword: Paleoclimate
Regional keyword: Global
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Title: Quaternary Science Reviews
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 284 Sequence Number: 107493 Start / End Page: - Identifier: CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/journals418
Publisher: Elsevier