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Rendered graphic of the MARUM-MeBo70 landing on the seabed of the Amundsen Sea. Credit: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen / Martin Künsting
The results of the new study show how substantially differently East and West Antarctica react to external forcing, as the researchers describe in the prestigious journalAround 34 million years ago, planet Earth underwent one of the most fundamental climate shifts that still influences global climate conditions today: the transition from a greenhouse world, with no or very little accumulation of continental ice, to an icehouse world, with large permanently glaciated areas.
The RV Polarstern in front of a mighty iceberg in Pine Island Bay. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute / JohannIn order to better understand where the first permanent ice formed in Antarctica, the AWI paleoclimate modelers combined the newly available data together with existing data on air and water temperatures and the occurrence of ice.
Scene in the control room for the MARUM-MeBo70 during the drilling of core PS104_21-3. Credit: IODP / Thomas Ronge
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