East Antarctic warming forced by ice loss during the Last Interglacial.

David K Hutchinson, Laurie Menviel, Katrin J Meissner, Andrew McC Hogg

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment.Nature · 2025
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East Antarctic warming forced by ice loss during the Last Interglacial.Nature communications · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David K HutchinsonClimate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. david.hutchinson@unsw.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9385-4782

Laurie MenvielClimate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5068-1591

Katrin J MeissnerClimate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0716-7415

Andrew McC HoggARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5898-7635

UNSW Sydney · AUAustralian National University · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the Last Interglacial (LIG; 129-116 thousand years before present), the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) was 1 to 7 m sea level equivalent smaller than at pre-industrial. Here, we assess the climatic impact of partial AIS melting at the LIG by forcing a coupled climate model with a smaller AIS and the equivalent meltwater input around the Antarctic coast. We find that changes in surface elevation induce surface warming over East Antarctica of 2 to 4 °C, and sea surface temperature (SST) increases in the Weddell and Ross Seas by up to 2 °C. Meltwater forcing causes a high latitude SST decrease and a subsurface (100-500 m) ocean temperature increase by up to 2 °C in the Ross Sea. Our results suggest that the combination of a smaller AIS and enhanced meltwater input leads to a larger sub-surface warming than meltwater alone and induces further Antarctic warming than each perturbation separately.

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PMID38310088

DOI10.1038/s41467-024-45501-x

PMCPMC10838265

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