Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.
According to the bipolar seesaw hypothesis, climate warming in Greenland was accompanied by simultaneous climate cooling in Antarctica, and vice versa, during the rapid climatic changes of the last deglaciation. Morganet al. have found, however, that at least one cooling episode in Antartica preceded Greenland warming by 500 years. In his Perspective, Stocker discusses the implications of these results for the bipolar seesaw hypothesis.
The author is in the Climate and Environmental Physics Division, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. He is currently at Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/Laboratoire du Climat et de l'Environnement, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. E-mail: stocker{at}climate.unibe.ch
The editors suggest the following Related Resources on Science sites:
In Science Magazine
REPORTS
Vin Morgan, Marc Delmotte, Tas van Ommen, Jean Jouzel, Jérôme Chappellaz, Suenor Woon, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, and Dominique Raynaud (13 September 2002) Science297 (5588), 1862.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1074257] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Temperature change is the major driver of late-glacial and Holocene glacier fluctuations in New Zealand.
Antarctic Timing of Surface Water Changes off Chile and Patagonian Ice Sheet Response.
F. Lamy, J. Kaiser, U. Ninnemann, D. Hebbeln, H. W. Arz, and J. Stoner (2004)
Science
304, 1959-1962
|Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »
Abrupt Climate Change.
R. B. Alley, J. Marotzke, W. D. Nordhaus, J. T. Overpeck, D. M. Peteet, R. A. Pielke Jr., R. T. Pierrehumbert, P. B. Rhines, T. F. Stocker, L. D. Talley, et al. (2003)
Science
299, 2005-2010
|Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »
