Sentences with phrase «changed after the last ice age»
Ecol.35, 451 — 463; Prentice, I. C., Harrison, S. P. & Bartlein, P. J. 2011 Global vegetation and terrestrial carbon cycle changes after the last ice age.
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This drift is due to the changes in the distribution of Earth's mass as the crust slowly rebounds after the end of the last ice age.
The change in Earth's moment of inertia, a quantity called J2 - dot, due to the ongoing isostatic rebound in Canada after the last ice age, has been well observed by satellite orbit monitoring, e.g., of the Lageos laser reflecting satellites.
Besides being a lead author on several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. Alley led one of the groups that first discerned in Greenland's ice layers how the climate has seen extraordinary jogs in temperature, particularly shortly after the end of the last ice age.
4 C over century is bad enough, and is only «abrupt» when considering paleoclimate scales where this kind of change occurred over many millennia after the last ice age.