The Larsen-B collapse and Laurentide variability
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Brief Communication: Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet? J. Alvarez-Solas, A. Robinson, and C. Ritz Dpto. Astrof́ısica y Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE)-UMR8212, France Instituto de Geociencias (IGEO), CSIC-UCM, Spain Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
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