• DOI:10.1126/science.270.5235.455
Corpus ID: 176515556

Large Arctic Temperature Change at the Wisconsin-Holocene Glacial Transition

@article{Cuffey1995LargeAT,
  title={Large Arctic Temperature Change at the Wisconsin-Holocene Glacial Transition},
  author={K. Cuffey and G. Clow and R. Alley and M. Stuiver and E. Waddington and R. Saltus},
  journal={Science},
  year={1995},
  volume={270},
  pages={455 - 458}
}

• K. Cuffey, G. Clow, +3 authors R. Saltus
• Published 1995
• Geology
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Analysis of borehole temperature and Greenland Ice Sheet Project II ice-core isotopic composition reveals that the warming from average glacial conditions to the Holocene in central Greenland was large, approximately 15°C. This is at least three times the coincident temperature change in the tropics and mid-latitudes. The coldest periods of the last glacial were probably 21°C colder than at present over the Greenland ice sheet.