Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2299-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2299-2018
Model experiment description paper
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19 Jun 2018
Model experiment description paper |  | 19 Jun 2018

A new approach for simulating the paleo-evolution of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets

Rubén Banderas, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Alexander Robinson, and Marisa Montoya

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Here we present a new approach to force ice-sheet models offline, which accounts for a more realistic treatment of millennial-scale climate variability as compared to the existing methods. Our results reveal that an incorrect representation of the characteristic pattern of millennial-scale climate variability within the climate forcing not only affects NH ice-volume variations at millennial timescales but has consequences for glacial–interglacial ice-volume changes too.
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