Continental Ice Sheets and the Planetary Radiation Budget
Abstract The interaction between continential ice sheets and the planetary radiation budget is potentially important in climate-sensitivity studies. A simple ice-sheet model incorporated in an energybalance climate model provides a tool for studying this interaction in a quantitative way. Experiment...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1016/0033-5894(80)90016-2 2024-06-09T07:46:46+00:00 Continental Ice Sheets and the Planetary Radiation Budget Oerlemans, J. 1980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(80)90016-2 http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589480900162?httpAccept=text/xml http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589480900162?httpAccept=text/plain https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400015817 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Quaternary Research volume 14, issue 3, page 349-359 ISSN 0033-5894 1096-0287 journal-article 1980 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(80)90016-2 2024-05-15T13:17:22Z Abstract The interaction between continential ice sheets and the planetary radiation budget is potentially important in climate-sensitivity studies. A simple ice-sheet model incorporated in an energybalance climate model provides a tool for studying this interaction in a quantitative way. Experiments in which the ice-sheet model is coupled step by step to the climate model show that ice sheets hardly affect the zonal mean radiation balance because the albedo feedback due to sea ice and snow cover is dominating. The model requires a 5% drop in the solar constant to create ice sheets of ice-age size. If the feedback between surface elevation and ice-mass balance is included (in a very crude way), the ice-sheet size ( L , measured southward from 70°N) becomes much more sensitive to in insolation. For a range of normalized solar constants, roughly from 0.98 to 1.02, two stable solutions exist: L ⋍ 0 and L ⋍ 2000 km. This result demonstrates that the response of ice sheets to insolation variations is far from linear. It also stresses the need for explicit modeling of the ice-mass balance of ice sheets, particularly its dependence on surface elevation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Sea ice Cambridge University Press Quaternary Research 14 3 349 359 |
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Abstract The interaction between continential ice sheets and the planetary radiation budget is potentially important in climate-sensitivity studies. A simple ice-sheet model incorporated in an energybalance climate model provides a tool for studying this interaction in a quantitative way. Experiments in which the ice-sheet model is coupled step by step to the climate model show that ice sheets hardly affect the zonal mean radiation balance because the albedo feedback due to sea ice and snow cover is dominating. The model requires a 5% drop in the solar constant to create ice sheets of ice-age size. If the feedback between surface elevation and ice-mass balance is included (in a very crude way), the ice-sheet size ( L , measured southward from 70°N) becomes much more sensitive to in insolation. For a range of normalized solar constants, roughly from 0.98 to 1.02, two stable solutions exist: L ⋍ 0 and L ⋍ 2000 km. This result demonstrates that the response of ice sheets to insolation variations is far from linear. It also stresses the need for explicit modeling of the ice-mass balance of ice sheets, particularly its dependence on surface elevation. |
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