A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles
A 3-D thermomechanical ice-sheet/ ice-shelf/ lithosphere model was used to reconstruct the history of the Antarctic ice sheet over the last 8 glacial cycles. The glaciological model freely generates ice-sheet volume and extent, has a 20 km horizontal resolution, and is driven by changes of temperatu...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:13360 2023-09-05T13:14:14+02:00 A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles Huybrechts, Philippe Rybak, Oleg 2005 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/13360/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23744 unknown Huybrechts, P. and Rybak, O. (2005) A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles , Polar Regions and Quaternary Climate, EuroConference toward an Integrative View of Climate in Antarctica and Circum-Antarctic Regions, Acquafredda di Maratea (I), 24-29 September 2005. . hdl:10013/epic.23744 EPIC3Polar Regions and Quaternary Climate, EuroConference toward an Integrative View of Climate in Antarctica and Circum-Antarctic Regions, Acquafredda di Maratea (I), 24-29 September 2005. Conference notRev 2005 ftawi 2023-08-22T19:50:31Z A 3-D thermomechanical ice-sheet/ ice-shelf/ lithosphere model was used to reconstruct the history of the Antarctic ice sheet over the last 8 glacial cycles. The glaciological model freely generates ice-sheet volume and extent, has a 20 km horizontal resolution, and is driven by changes of temperature, mass balance, and sea-level. The simulation is driven by a temperature record derived from the Dome C ice core and a sea level record derived from the Bassinot oceanic delta-18O record. Most importantly, we find a regime change in the dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet centered around Stage 11. For the last 400000 years, the Antarctic ice sheet shows a clear and more or less regular pattern of glacial cycles with glacial-interglacial shifts characterised by waxing and waning of grounded ice over the Ross and Weddell basins. Such behaviour is lacking before Stage 11, when the Antarctic ice sheet stays mostly in glacial model, also during the warm intervals. This behaviour is not necessarily in contradiction with the forcing itself, as the sea-level stand during the interglacials between 750 and 400 ka does not rise above 20 to 25 m, which can be reconciled with a continuous maximum Antarctic ice sheet, but still nearly complete interglacials on the northern hemisphere continents.The presentation will summarize the results of this simulation by showing the evolution of key glaciological variables over the last 740000 years. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic ice core Ice Sheet Ice Shelf Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Antarctic The Antarctic Weddell |
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A 3-D thermomechanical ice-sheet/ ice-shelf/ lithosphere model was used to reconstruct the history of the Antarctic ice sheet over the last 8 glacial cycles. The glaciological model freely generates ice-sheet volume and extent, has a 20 km horizontal resolution, and is driven by changes of temperature, mass balance, and sea-level. The simulation is driven by a temperature record derived from the Dome C ice core and a sea level record derived from the Bassinot oceanic delta-18O record. Most importantly, we find a regime change in the dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet centered around Stage 11. For the last 400000 years, the Antarctic ice sheet shows a clear and more or less regular pattern of glacial cycles with glacial-interglacial shifts characterised by waxing and waning of grounded ice over the Ross and Weddell basins. Such behaviour is lacking before Stage 11, when the Antarctic ice sheet stays mostly in glacial model, also during the warm intervals. This behaviour is not necessarily in contradiction with the forcing itself, as the sea-level stand during the interglacials between 750 and 400 ka does not rise above 20 to 25 m, which can be reconciled with a continuous maximum Antarctic ice sheet, but still nearly complete interglacials on the northern hemisphere continents.The presentation will summarize the results of this simulation by showing the evolution of key glaciological variables over the last 740000 years. |
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Huybrechts, Philippe Rybak, Oleg A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles |
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A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles |
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A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles |
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A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles |
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A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles |
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A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles |
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3-d model reconstruction of the antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles |
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Antarctic The Antarctic Weddell |
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Antarc* Antarctic ice core Ice Sheet Ice Shelf |
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EPIC3Polar Regions and Quaternary Climate, EuroConference toward an Integrative View of Climate in Antarctica and Circum-Antarctic Regions, Acquafredda di Maratea (I), 24-29 September 2005. |
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Huybrechts, P. and Rybak, O. (2005) A 3-D model reconstruction of the Antarctic ice sheet during the last 8 glacial cycles , Polar Regions and Quaternary Climate, EuroConference toward an Integrative View of Climate in Antarctica and Circum-Antarctic Regions, Acquafredda di Maratea (I), 24-29 September 2005. . hdl:10013/epic.23744 |
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