Understanding Glacial Inception in Northeast Canada With a High-Resolution Regional Climate Model

• Main Author: Birch, Leah Michelle
• Other Authors: Tziperman, Eli, Cronin, Timothy, Farrell, Brian, Kuang, Zhiming
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Glacial Inception; regional climate modeling; climate dynamics; Baffin Island; Canada; Kya; Baffin; glacier*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42015313

Over the past 0.8 million years, 100 kyr ice ages have dominated Earth's climate. Interglacials were brief, sometimes lasting only a few thousand years. Currently, state-of-the-art global climate models (GCMs) have difficulty simulating glacial inception, due in part to their coarse horizontal...