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TY - CONF AU - Wright, Daniel G. AU - Stocker, Thomas F. ED - Peltier, W. Richard PY - 1993 DA - 1993// TI - Younger Dryas Experiments BT - Ice in the Climate System SP - 395 EP - 416 PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg CY - Berlin, Heidelberg AB - Probably the best documented climate event in which ice played a major role is the Younger Dryas. This event interrupted warming over the North Atlantic and surrounding regions during the last termination for a period of about 1000y. Broecker and colleagues suggest that the event was due to a temporary weakening or cessation of the overturning circulation in the Atlantic Basin, which presently carries more than a Petawatt of heat into this region. The change in ocean circulation may have been initiated by the input of meltwater to the North Atlantic, but the event has not been successfully modelled. SN - 978-3-642-85016-5 ID - 10.1007/978-3-642-85016-5_23 ER -