WArm Climate Stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet in the last INterglacial (WACSWAIN)

Project Information

WACSWAIN

Grant agreement ID: 742224

DOI 10.3030/742224

Project closed

EC signature date 11 May 2017

Start date 1 August 2017

End date 31 January 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 817 554,00

EU contribution € 2 817 554,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Reconciling ice core CO2 and land-use change following New World-Old World contact

Author(s): King, A. C. F.; Bauska, T. K.; Brook, E. J.; Kalk, M.; Nehrbass-Ahles, C.; Wolff, E. W.; Strawson, I.; Rhodes, R. H.; Osman, M. B.
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 1735, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45894-9

The ST22 chronology for the Skytrain Ice Rise ice core – Part 1: A stratigraphic chronology of the last 2000 years

Author(s): Helene M. Hoffmann, Mackenzie M. Grieman, Amy C. F. King, Jenna A. Epifanio, Kaden Martin, Diana Vladimirova, Helena V. Pryer, Emily Doyle, Axel Schmidt, Jack D. Humby, Isobel F. Rowell, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Robert Mulvaney, Eric W. Wolff
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 18, 2022, Page(s) 1831–1847, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/cp-18-1831-2022

Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment

Author(s): Grieman, Mackenzie M.; Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph; Hoffmann, Helene M.; Bauska, Thomas K.; King, Amy C. F.; Mulvaney, Robert; Rhodes, Rachael H.; Rowell, Isobel F.; Thomas, Elizabeth R.; Wolff, Eric W.
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 17, 2024, Page(s) 227-232, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01375-8

Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica

Author(s): Robert Mulvaney, Julius Rix, Scott Polfrey, Mackenzie Grieman, Carlos Martìn, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Isobel Rowell, Rebecca Tuckwell, Eric Wolff
Published in: Annals of Glaciology, 2021, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0260-3055
Publisher: International Glaciological Society
DOI: 10.1017/aog.2021.7

Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)–Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4)

Author(s): Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, Anni Zhao, Chris M. Brierley, Yarrow Axford, Emilie Capron, Aline Govin, Jeremy S. Hoffman, Elizabeth Isaacs, Masa Kageyama, Paolo Scussolini, Polychronis C. Tzedakis, Charles J. R. Williams, Eric Wolff, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Pascale Braconnot, Silvana Ramos Buarque, Jian Cao, Anne de Vernal, Maria Vittoria Guarino, Chuncheng Guo, Allegra N. LeGrande, Gerrit Loh
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 17, 2021, Page(s) 63-94, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-63-2021

Viability of chemical and water isotope ratio measurements of RAID ice chippings from Antarctica

Author(s): Isobel F. Rowell, Robert Mulvaney, Julius Rix, Dieter R. Tetzner, Eric W. Wolff
Published in: Journal of Glaciology, Issue 5th December 2022, 2022, ISSN 0022-1430
Publisher: International Glaciological Society
DOI: 10.1017/jog.2022.94

The penultimate deglaciation: protocol for Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) phase 4 transient numerical simulations between 140 and 127 ka, version 1.0

Author(s): Laurie Menviel, Emilie Capron, Aline Govin, Andrea Dutton, Lev Tarasov, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Russell N. Drysdale, Philip L. Gibbard, Lauren Gregoire, Feng He, Ruza F. Ivanovic, Masa Kageyama, Kenji Kawamura, Amaelle Landais, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Ikumi Oyabu, Polychronis C. Tzedakis, Eric Wolff, Xu Zhang
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue 12/8, 2019, Page(s) 3649-3685, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: European Geoscciences Union/Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-3649-2019

Antarctic Ice Sheet Elevation Impacts on Water Isotope Records During the Last Interglacial

Author(s): Sentia Goursaud, Max Holloway, Louise Sime, Eric Wolff, Paul Valdes, Eric J. Steig, Andrew Pauling
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 48/6, 2021, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl091412

An age scale for new climate records from Sherman Island, West Antarctica

Author(s): Isobel Rowell, Carlos Martin, Robert Mulvaney, Helena Pryer, Dieter Tetzner, Emily Doyle, HM Talasila, J Li, Eric Wolff
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) 1699-1714, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-1699-2023

Modelling the transition from grain-boundary sliding to power-law creep in dry snow densification

Author(s): Elizabeth M. Morris; Lynn Montgomery; Robert Mulvaney
Published in: Journal of Glaciology, Issue 68, 2021, Page(s) 407-430, ISSN 0022-1430
Publisher: International Glaciological Society
DOI: 10.1017/jog.2021.95

Continuous flow analysis methods for sodium, magnesium and calcium detection in the Skytrain ice core

Author(s): Mackenzie M. Grieman, Helene M. Hoffmann, Jack D. Humby, Robert Mulvaney, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Julius Rix, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Rebecca Tuckwell, Eric W. Wolff
Published in: Journal of Glaciology, 2021, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 0022-1430
Publisher: International Glaciological Society
DOI: 10.1017/jog.2021.75

The ST22 chronology for the Skytrain Ice Rise ice core – Part 2: An age model to the last interglacial and disturbed deep stratigraphy

Author(s): Robert Mulvaney, Eric W. Wolff, Mackenzie M. Grieman, Helene H. Hoffmann, Jack D. Humby, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Rachael H. Rhodes, Isobel F. Rowell, Frédéric Parrenin, Loïc Schmidely, Hubertus Fischer, Thomas F. Stocker, Marcus Christl, Raimund Muscheler, Amaelle Landais, Frédéric Prié
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) 851-864, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-851-2023

Other (1)

What happened to WAIS during the last interglacial? ‐ how the new Skytrain Ice Rise core will help to answer that (abstract)

Author(s): Eric Wolff, Robert Mulvaney, Sentia Goursaud, Mackenzie Grieman, Helene Hoffmann, Jack Humby, Amy King, Emily Ludlow, Shaun Miller, Christoph Nehrbass‐Ahles, Scott Polfrey, Julius Rix, Isobel Rowell, Rebecca Tuckwell
Published in: QUATERNARY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ANNUAL DISCUSSION MEETING ABSTRACTS, Issue Annual, 2020, Page(s) 73
Publisher: University of Leeds