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1984 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Ice Sheets in the Future

Authors : J. Oerlemans, C. J. van der Veen

Published in: Ice Sheets and Climate

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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One of the reasons that the dynamics of ice sheets are studied is the desire to obtain knowledge about their future behaviour. In particular during the last few million years ice volume on earth varied enormously. Cold periods with huge ice sheets on the northern hemisphere continents were interrupted by relatively warm interglacials, in which only the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica survived. From a purely statistical point of view, it is very likely that a new ice age is on its way.

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Title
Ice Sheets in the Future
Authors
J. Oerlemans
C. J. van der Veen
Copyright Year
1984
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Ice Sheets and Climate

Print ISBN: 978-94-009-6327-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-009-6325-2

Copyright Year: 1984

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6325-2_12