Ocean current links northern and southern hemisphere during Ice Age

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Dr. Hubertus Fischer is sawing an ice core. Credit: Gerald Traufetter Alfred Wegener Institute
Dr. Hubertus Fischer is sawing an ice core. Credit: Gerald Traufetter, Alfred Wegener Institute

Even if climate records from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores show different patterns climate of Arctic and Antartica are connected directly. Recent investigations on an Antarctic ice core now published in nature indicate a general connection between both hemispheres by a 'bipolar seesaw.'


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