The sea-level conundrum: Case studies from palaeo-archives

Uncertainties in sea-level projections for the 21st century have focused ice sheet modelling efforts to include the processes that are thought to be contributing to the recently observed rapid changes at ice sheet margins. This effort is still in its infancy, however, leaving us unable to make reliable predictions of ice sheet responses to a warming climate if such glacier accelerations were to increase in size and frequency. The geological record, however, has long identified examples of nonlinear ice sheet response to climate forcing (Shackleton NJ, Opdyke ND. 1973. Oxygen isotope and paleomagnetic stratigraphy of equatorial Pacific core V28–239, late Pliocene to latest Pleistocene. Geological Society of America Memoirs145: 449–464; Fairbanks RG. 1989. A 17,000 year glacio-eustatic sea level record: influence of glacial melting rates on the Younger Dryas event and deep ocean circulation. Nature342: 637–642; Bard E, Hamelin B, Arnold M, Montaggioni L, Cabioch G, Faure G, Rougerie F. 1996. Sea level record from Tahiti corals and the timing of deglacial meltwater discharge. Nature 382: 241–244), thus suggesting an alternative strategy for constraining the rate and magnitude of sea-level change that we might expect by the end of this century.

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Author Abe-Ouchi, Ayako
Andersen, Morten
Antonioli, Fabrizio
Bamber, Jonathon
Bard, Edouard
Clark, Jorie
Clark, Peter
Deschamps, Pierre
Dutton, Andrea
Elliot, Mary
Gallup, Christina
Gomez, Natalya
Gregory, Jonathan
Huybers, Peter
Kawamura, Kenji
Kelly, Meredith
Lambeck, Kurt
Lowell, Tom
Mitrovica, Jerry
Otto-Bliesner, Bette
Richards, David
Siddall, Mark
Stanford, Jenny
Stirling, Claudine
Stocker, Thomas
Thomas, Alex
Thompson, Bill
Tornqvist, Torbjorn
Riveiros, Natalia
Waelbroeck, Claire
Yokoyama, Yusuke
Yu, Shiyong
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Library
Publication Date 2010-01-01T00:00:00
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Suggested Citation Abe-Ouchi, Ayako, Andersen, Morten, Antonioli, Fabrizio, Bamber, Jonathon, Bard, Edouard, Clark, Jorie, Clark, Peter, Deschamps, Pierre, Dutton, Andrea, Elliot, Mary, Gallup, Christina, Gomez, Natalya, Gregory, Jonathan, Huybers, Peter, Kawamura, Kenji, Kelly, Meredith, Lambeck, Kurt, Lowell, Tom, Mitrovica, Jerry, Otto-Bliesner, Bette, Richards, David, Siddall, Mark, Stanford, Jenny, Stirling, Claudine, Stocker, Thomas, Thomas, Alex, Thompson, Bill, Tornqvist, Torbjorn, Riveiros, Natalia, Waelbroeck, Claire, Yokoyama, Yusuke, Yu, Shiyong. (2010). The sea-level conundrum: Case studies from palaeo-archives. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d75d8s9d. Accessed 28 June 2025.

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