Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period
International audience The Younger Dryas cooling event disrupted the overall warming trend in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Climate change during the Younger Dryas was abrupt, and thus provides insights into the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbations. The sudden...
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International audience The Younger Dryas cooling event disrupted the overall warming trend in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Climate change during the Younger Dryas was abrupt, and thus provides insights into the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbations. The sudden Younger Dryas cooling has traditionally been attributed to a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation by meltwater discharges1 However, alternative explanations such as strong negative radiative forcing and a shift in atmospheric circulation have also been offered. Here we investigate the importance of these different forcings in coupled climate model experiments constrained by data assimilation. We find that the Younger Dryas climate signal as registered in proxy evidence is best simulated using a combination of processes: a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, moderate negative radiative forcing and an altered atmospheric circulation. We conclude that none of the individual mechanisms alone provide a plausible explanation for the Younger Dryas cold period. We suggest that the triggers for abrupt climate changes such as the Younger Dryas are more complex than suggested so far, and that studies on the response of the climate system to perturbations should account for this complexity. |
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-03218176v1 2024-04-28T08:30:51+00:00 Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period Renssen, Hans Mairesse, Aurélien Goosse, Hugues Mathiot, Pierre Heiri, Oliver Roche, Didier M. Nisancioglu, Kerim, H. Valdes, Paul Department of Earth Sciences Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam (VU) Earth and Life Institute Louvain-La-Neuve (ELI) Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) Universität Bern / University of Bern (UNIBE) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) Modélisation du climat (CLIM) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) University of Bergen (UiB) Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) Department of Biological Sciences Bergen (BIO / UiB) University of Bergen (UiB)-University of Bergen (UiB) School of Geographical Sciences Bristol University of Bristol Bristol European Project: 243908,EC:FP7:ENV,FP7-ENV-2009-1,PAST4FUTURE(2010) 2015-12 https://hal.science/hal-03218176 https://hal.science/hal-03218176/document https://hal.science/hal-03218176/file/Renssen_etal_resubm_NatureGS_Submitted.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2557 en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/ngeo2557 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/243908/EU/Climate change - Learning from the past climate/PAST4FUTURE hal-03218176 https://hal.science/hal-03218176 https://hal.science/hal-03218176/document https://hal.science/hal-03218176/file/Renssen_etal_resubm_NatureGS_Submitted.pdf doi:10.1038/ngeo2557 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1752-0894 Nature Geoscience https://hal.science/hal-03218176 Nature Geoscience, 2015, 8 (12), pp.946-949. ⟨10.1038/ngeo2557⟩ [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environment info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2015 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2557 2024-04-05T00:37:31Z International audience The Younger Dryas cooling event disrupted the overall warming trend in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Climate change during the Younger Dryas was abrupt, and thus provides insights into the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbations. The sudden Younger Dryas cooling has traditionally been attributed to a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation by meltwater discharges1 However, alternative explanations such as strong negative radiative forcing and a shift in atmospheric circulation have also been offered. Here we investigate the importance of these different forcings in coupled climate model experiments constrained by data assimilation. We find that the Younger Dryas climate signal as registered in proxy evidence is best simulated using a combination of processes: a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, moderate negative radiative forcing and an altered atmospheric circulation. We conclude that none of the individual mechanisms alone provide a plausible explanation for the Younger Dryas cold period. We suggest that the triggers for abrupt climate changes such as the Younger Dryas are more complex than suggested so far, and that studies on the response of the climate system to perturbations should account for this complexity. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Nature Geoscience 8 12 946 949 |