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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs (grant numbers 0537930, 0837988, 0963924 and 1043092 to E.J.S.; 05379853 and 1043167 to J.W.C.W.; 0944730 to S.B.R.; 0230396, 0440817, 0944348 and 0944266 to K.C.T.; 0096305, 9316564, 0096299, 0424589, 0439589, 063740, 063650 and 0837883 to P.A.M.; 0838871 to D.P.S.). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. We thank A. Orsi, J. Bautista and J. Flaherty.

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  1. Peter D. Neff
    Present address: Present address: Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand,
  2. Ailie J. E. Gallant
    Present address: Present address: School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia,

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  1. Quaternary Research Center and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
    Eric J. Steig, Qinghua Ding, Marcel Küttel, Peter D. Neff, Ailie J. E. Gallant, Spruce W. Schoenemann, Bradley R. Markle, Tyler J. Fudge, Andrew J. Schauer & Rebecca P. Teel
  2. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
    James W. C. White & Bruce H. Vaughn
  3. Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
    Summer B. Rupper, Landon Burgener & Jessica Williams
  4. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770, Code 615, USA
    Thomas A. Neumann
  5. Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA
    Paul A. Mayewski, Daniel A. Dixon & Elena Korotkikh
  6. Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada 89512, USA
    Kendrick C. Taylor
  7. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Centre d’Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91191, France
    Georg Hoffmann
  8. Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3508 TC, Netherlands
    Georg Hoffmann
  9. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
    David P. Schneider

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E.J.S., J.W.C.W., S.B.R., P.D.N., B.R.M., B.H.V., D.P.S., S.W.S., T.A.N., P.A.M., K.C.T., T.J.F., D.A.D. and E.K. conducted fieldwork and sample collection. P.D.N., A.J.S., R.P.T., B.H.V., E.K., E.J.S., D.P.S., J.W.C.W., S.B.R., L.B. and J.W. obtained the ice-core water-isotope data. G.H. provided code and assistance with the modelling. E.J.S. and Q.D. compiled the data, conducted the model experiments and calculations and wrote the paper. All authors contributed to the final manuscript text.

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Steig, E., Ding, Q., White, J. et al. Recent climate and ice-sheet changes in West Antarctica compared with the past 2,000 years.Nature Geosci 6, 372–375 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1778

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