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Ice in the Climate System

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. W. Richard Peltier

    1. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries I: (ASII, volume 12)

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Ice Sheet Modelling

    1. Extent and Melting History of the Late Weichselian Ice Sheet, the Barents-Kara Continental Margin

      • Mikhail G. Grosswald
      Pages 1-20

    2. Modelling of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet

      • Anne Letréguilly, Catherine Ritz
      Pages 21-46

    3. Controls on Changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

      • I. M. Whillans, C. J. van der Veen
      Pages 47-54

    4. Plastic Modelling of Glaciers and Outlets

      • Øyvind Armand Høydal
      Pages 55-65

    5. Qualitative Dynamics of Marine Ice Sheets

      • Richard C. A. Hindmarsh
      Pages 67-99

  4. Ice Sheet-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions

    1. Heinrich Events: Triggers of Ocean Circulation Change?

      • Wally Broecker, Gerard Bond, Jerry McManus
      Pages 161-166

    2. Heinrich Events: Chronology and Processes, East-Central Laurentide Ice Sheet and NW Labrador Sea

      • J. T. Andrews, K. Tedesco, A. E. Jennings
      Pages 167-186

    3. Transport of Freshwater into the Deep Ocean by the Conveyor

      • Scott J. Lehman, Daniel G. Wright, Thomas F. Stocker
      Pages 187-209

    4. The driving force of brine rejection on the deepwater formation in the Hamburg LSG OGCM

      • E. Maier-Reimer
      Pages 211-216

    5. The Melting of Continental Ice in the Ocean and Its Impact on Surface and Bottom Waters

      • Adrian Jenkins
      Pages 217-235

    6. Hydrological Cycle Scenarios, Deep Ocean Circulation, and Century/Millennium Climate Change: A Simulation Study Using an Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Sheet Model

      • Huaxiao Wang, G. Edward Birchfield, Jonathan J. Rich
      Pages 237-254

    7. A Simple Systems Model of the Major Glaciation Cycles

      • John Imbrie
      Pages 255-269

    8. Climate Model Studies of Interactions between Ice Sheets and the Atmosphere-Ocean System

      • A. J. Broccoli, S. Manabe
      Pages 271-290

    9. Modelling Ice Sheet and Climate Changes through the Ice Ages

      • W. F. Budd, P. Rayner
      Pages 291-319

    10. Simulation of the Climate of the Last 200 Kyr with the LLN 2D-Model

      • H. Gallée, A. Berger, N. J. Shackleton
      Pages 321-341
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According to my latest model for the last glacial maximum (LGM) (Grosswald 1988), the Arctic continental margin of Eurasia was glaciated by the Eurasian ice sheet, which consisted of three interconnected ice domes --the Scandinavian, Kara, and East Siberian. The Kara Sea glacier was largely a marine ice dome grounded on the sea's continental shelf. The ice dome discharged its ice in all directions, northward into the deep Arctic Basin, southward and westward onto the mainland of west-central North Siberia, the northern Russian Plain, and over the Barents shelf into the Norwegian-Greenland Sea On the Barents shelf, the Kara ice dome merged with the Scandinavian ice dome. In the Arctic Basin the discharged ice floated and eventually coalesced with the floating glacier ice of the North-American provenance giving rise to the Central-Arctic ice shelf. Along its southern margin, the Kara ice dome impounded the northward flowing rivers, causing the formation of large proglaciallakes and their integration into a transcontinental meltwater drainage system. Despite the constant increase in corroborating evidence, the concept of a Kara ice dome is still considered debatable, and the ice dome itself problematic. As a result, a paleogeographic uncertainty takes place, which is aggravated by the fact that a great deal of existing knowledge, no matter how broadly accepted, is based on ambiguous interpretations of the data, most of which are published in Russian and, therefore, not easily available to western scientists.

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  • Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    W. Richard Peltier

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