Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet
A nested ice flow model was developed for eastern Dronning Maud Land to assist with the dating and interpretation of the EDML deep ice core. The model consists of a high-resolution higher-order ice dynamic flow model that was nested into a comprehensive 3D thermomechanical model of the whole Antarct...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:17804 2023-05-15T13:39:47+02:00 Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet Huybrechts, Philippe Rybak, Oleg Pattyn, F. Ruth, Urs Steinhage, Daniel 2007 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17804/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17804/1/Huy2007a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28198 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28198.d001 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17804/1/Huy2007a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28198.d001 Huybrechts, P. , Rybak, O. , Pattyn, F. , Ruth, U. and Steinhage, D. orcid:0000-0003-4737-9751 (2007) Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet , Climate of the Past, 3 , pp. 577-589 . hdl:10013/epic.28198 EPIC3Climate of the Past, 3, pp. 577-589 Article isiRev 2007 ftawi 2021-12-24T15:32:17Z A nested ice flow model was developed for eastern Dronning Maud Land to assist with the dating and interpretation of the EDML deep ice core. The model consists of a high-resolution higher-order ice dynamic flow model that was nested into a comprehensive 3D thermomechanical model of the whole Antarctic ice sheet. As the drill site is on a flank position the calculations specifically take into account the effects of horizontal advection as deeper ice in the core originated from higher inland. First the regional velocity field and ice sheet geometry is obtained from a forward experiment over the last 8 glacial cycles. The result is subsequently employed in a Lagrangian backtracing algorithm to provide particle paths back to their time and place of deposition. The procedure directly yields the depth-age distribution, surface conditions at particle origin, and a suite of relevant parameters such as initial annual layer thickness. This paper discusses the method and the main results of the experiment, including the ice core chronology, the non-climatic corrections needed to extract the climatic part of the signal, and the thinning function. The focus is on the upper 89% of the ice core (appr. 170 kyears) as the dating below that is increasingly less robust owing to the unknown value of the geothermal heat flux. It is found that the temperature biases resulting from variations of surface elevation are up to half of the magnitude of the climatic changes themselves. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Dronning Maud Land ice core Ice Sheet Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Antarctic Dronning Maud Land The Antarctic |
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A nested ice flow model was developed for eastern Dronning Maud Land to assist with the dating and interpretation of the EDML deep ice core. The model consists of a high-resolution higher-order ice dynamic flow model that was nested into a comprehensive 3D thermomechanical model of the whole Antarctic ice sheet. As the drill site is on a flank position the calculations specifically take into account the effects of horizontal advection as deeper ice in the core originated from higher inland. First the regional velocity field and ice sheet geometry is obtained from a forward experiment over the last 8 glacial cycles. The result is subsequently employed in a Lagrangian backtracing algorithm to provide particle paths back to their time and place of deposition. The procedure directly yields the depth-age distribution, surface conditions at particle origin, and a suite of relevant parameters such as initial annual layer thickness. This paper discusses the method and the main results of the experiment, including the ice core chronology, the non-climatic corrections needed to extract the climatic part of the signal, and the thinning function. The focus is on the upper 89% of the ice core (appr. 170 kyears) as the dating below that is increasingly less robust owing to the unknown value of the geothermal heat flux. It is found that the temperature biases resulting from variations of surface elevation are up to half of the magnitude of the climatic changes themselves. |
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Huybrechts, Philippe Rybak, Oleg Pattyn, F. Ruth, Urs Steinhage, Daniel Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Huybrechts, Philippe Rybak, Oleg Pattyn, F. Ruth, Urs Steinhage, Daniel |
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Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet |
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ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the edml ice core from a nested model of the antarctic ice sheet |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17804/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17804/1/Huy2007a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28198 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28198.d001 |
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Antarc* Antarctic Dronning Maud Land ice core Ice Sheet |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17804/1/Huy2007a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28198.d001 Huybrechts, P. , Rybak, O. , Pattyn, F. , Ruth, U. and Steinhage, D. orcid:0000-0003-4737-9751 (2007) Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet , Climate of the Past, 3 , pp. 577-589 . hdl:10013/epic.28198 |
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