Journal
JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
Volume 25, Issue 5, Pages 689-699Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1345
Keywords
ice-rafted debris; Iberian margin; British-Irish Ice Sheet; iceberg model; Polar Front; climate model
Funding
- UK Natural Environmental Research Council
- Research Council of Norway [NE/C509523/1, NFR/169933/S30]
- University of Sheffield
- NERC
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/C509523/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Ice-rafted debris (IRD) seeded into the ocean from Northern Hemisphere ice sheets is found in ocean cores along the southwestern European margin through the last glacial period. It is known that the origin of this IRD, especially off Iberia, can vary between North America and western Europe during short-lived episodes of greatly enhanced iceberg flux, known as Heinrich events, although in most Heinrich events the IRD has a North American source. During the longer times of much lower IRD fluxes between Heinrich events, use of an intermediate complexity climate model, coupled to an iceberg dynamic and thermodynamic model, shows that background levels of IRD most likely originate from western Europe, particularly the British Irish Ice Sheet. Combining modelling with palaeoceanographic evidence supports reconstructions of a short-lived, but substantial, Celtic and Irish Sea Ice Stream around 23 ka. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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