A Tropical Mechanism for Northern Hemisphere Deglaciation
We investigate the role of the tropics in the melting and reforming of the Laurentide ice sheet on glacial timescales using an atmospheric general circulation model. It is found that warming of tropical sea surface temperatures (SST) from glacial boundary conditions, as observed at the end of glacia...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.23.3766 2023-05-15T16:40:24+02:00 A Tropical Mechanism for Northern Hemisphere Deglaciation Keith B. Rodgers Gerrit Lohmann Stephan Lorenz Ralph Schneider Gideon M. Henderson The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.3766 http://www.palmod.uni-bremen.de/~gerrit/DEGLpaper.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.3766 http://www.palmod.uni-bremen.de/~gerrit/DEGLpaper.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.palmod.uni-bremen.de/~gerrit/DEGLpaper.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T18:40:27Z We investigate the role of the tropics in the melting and reforming of the Laurentide ice sheet on glacial timescales using an atmospheric general circulation model. It is found that warming of tropical sea surface temperatures (SST) from glacial boundary conditions, as observed at the end of glacial periods [Bard et al., 1997, Lea et al., 2000, Nurnberg et al., 2000], causes a large increase in summer temperatures centered over the ice-sheet-forming regions of Canada. This high-latitude response to tropical change is due to alterations in the vertical profiles of temperature and moisture in the extratropical atmosphere. This atmospheric bridge represents a mechanism for deglaciationxs which is consistent with timing constraints. In contrast, a cold perturbation to tropical SST for interglacial boundary conditions results in almost no cooling over the Canadian region. This implies that tropical SSTs could play a more important role in melting ice sheets in the northern hemisphere than in reforming them, possibly providing a mechanism which could help to explain the relative rapidity of deglaciation. 3 1. Text Ice Sheet Unknown Canada |
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We investigate the role of the tropics in the melting and reforming of the Laurentide ice sheet on glacial timescales using an atmospheric general circulation model. It is found that warming of tropical sea surface temperatures (SST) from glacial boundary conditions, as observed at the end of glacial periods [Bard et al., 1997, Lea et al., 2000, Nurnberg et al., 2000], causes a large increase in summer temperatures centered over the ice-sheet-forming regions of Canada. This high-latitude response to tropical change is due to alterations in the vertical profiles of temperature and moisture in the extratropical atmosphere. This atmospheric bridge represents a mechanism for deglaciationxs which is consistent with timing constraints. In contrast, a cold perturbation to tropical SST for interglacial boundary conditions results in almost no cooling over the Canadian region. This implies that tropical SSTs could play a more important role in melting ice sheets in the northern hemisphere than in reforming them, possibly providing a mechanism which could help to explain the relative rapidity of deglaciation. 3 1. |
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A Tropical Mechanism for Northern Hemisphere Deglaciation |
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A Tropical Mechanism for Northern Hemisphere Deglaciation |
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A Tropical Mechanism for Northern Hemisphere Deglaciation |
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A Tropical Mechanism for Northern Hemisphere Deglaciation |
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