Influence of solar variability, CO2 and orbital forcing between 1000 and 1850 AD in the IPSLCM4 model
Studying the climate of the last millennium gives the possibility to deal with a relatively well-documented climate essentially driven by natural forcings. We have performed two simulations with the IPSLCM4 climate model to evaluate the impact of Total Solar Irradiance (TSI), CO2 and orbital forcing...
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ftird:oai:ird.fr:fdi:010049039 2023-05-15T15:16:15+02:00 Influence of solar variability, CO2 and orbital forcing between 1000 and 1850 AD in the IPSLCM4 model Servonnat, J. Yiou, P. Khodri, Myriam Swingedouw, D. Denvil, S. 2010 http://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010049039 EN eng http://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010049039 oai:ird.fr:fdi:010049039 Servonnat J., Yiou P., Khodri Myriam, Swingedouw D., Denvil S. Influence of solar variability, CO2 and orbital forcing between 1000 and 1850 AD in the IPSLCM4 model. Climate of the Past, 2010, 6 (4), p. 445-460. text 2010 ftird 2020-08-21T06:57:01Z Studying the climate of the last millennium gives the possibility to deal with a relatively well-documented climate essentially driven by natural forcings. We have performed two simulations with the IPSLCM4 climate model to evaluate the impact of Total Solar Irradiance (TSI), CO2 and orbital forcing on secular temperature variability during the preindustrial part of the last millennium. The Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature of the simulation reproduces the amplitude of the NH temperature reconstructions over the last millennium. Using a linear statistical decomposition we evaluated that TSI and CO2 have similar contributions to secular temperature variability between 1425 and 1850 AD. They generate a temperature minimum comparable to the Little Ice Age shown by the temperature reconstructions. Solar forcing explains similar to 80% of the NH temperature variability during the first part of the millennium (1000-1425 AD) including the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA). It is responsible for a warm period which occurs two centuries later than in the reconstructions. This mismatch implies that the secular variability during the MCA is not fully explained by the response of the model to the TSI reconstruction. With a signal-noise ratio (SNR) estimate we found that the temperature signal of the forced simulation is significantly different from internal variability over area wider than similar to 5.10(6) km(2), i.e. approximately the extent of Europe. Orbital forcing plays a significant role in latitudes higher than 65A degrees N in summer and supports the conclusions of a recent study on an Arctic temperature reconstruction over past two millennia. The forced variability represents at least half of the temperature signal on only similar to 30% of the surface of the globe. This study suggests that regional reconstructions of the temperature between 1000 and 1850 AD are likely to show weak signatures of solar, CO2 and orbital forcings compared to internal variability. Text Arctic IRD (Institute de recherche pour le développement): Horizon Arctic |
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Studying the climate of the last millennium gives the possibility to deal with a relatively well-documented climate essentially driven by natural forcings. We have performed two simulations with the IPSLCM4 climate model to evaluate the impact of Total Solar Irradiance (TSI), CO2 and orbital forcing on secular temperature variability during the preindustrial part of the last millennium. The Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature of the simulation reproduces the amplitude of the NH temperature reconstructions over the last millennium. Using a linear statistical decomposition we evaluated that TSI and CO2 have similar contributions to secular temperature variability between 1425 and 1850 AD. They generate a temperature minimum comparable to the Little Ice Age shown by the temperature reconstructions. Solar forcing explains similar to 80% of the NH temperature variability during the first part of the millennium (1000-1425 AD) including the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA). It is responsible for a warm period which occurs two centuries later than in the reconstructions. This mismatch implies that the secular variability during the MCA is not fully explained by the response of the model to the TSI reconstruction. With a signal-noise ratio (SNR) estimate we found that the temperature signal of the forced simulation is significantly different from internal variability over area wider than similar to 5.10(6) km(2), i.e. approximately the extent of Europe. Orbital forcing plays a significant role in latitudes higher than 65A degrees N in summer and supports the conclusions of a recent study on an Arctic temperature reconstruction over past two millennia. The forced variability represents at least half of the temperature signal on only similar to 30% of the surface of the globe. This study suggests that regional reconstructions of the temperature between 1000 and 1850 AD are likely to show weak signatures of solar, CO2 and orbital forcings compared to internal variability. |
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Influence of solar variability, CO2 and orbital forcing between 1000 and 1850 AD in the IPSLCM4 model |
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http://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010049039 oai:ird.fr:fdi:010049039 Servonnat J., Yiou P., Khodri Myriam, Swingedouw D., Denvil S. Influence of solar variability, CO2 and orbital forcing between 1000 and 1850 AD in the IPSLCM4 model. Climate of the Past, 2010, 6 (4), p. 445-460. |
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