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Nature Geoscience 2, 500–504 (1 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/ngeo557

Antarctic temperature and global sea level closely coupled over the past five glacial cycles

E. J. Rohling , K. Grant , M. Bolshaw , A. P. Roberts , M. Siddall , Ch. Hemleben & M. Kucera

Ice cores from Antarctica record temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide variations over the past six glacial cycles. Yet concomitant records of sea-level fluctuations—needed to reveal rates and magnitudes of ice-volume change that provide context to projections for the future—remain elusive.