10,000 Years of Ice Sheet Change in Baffin Bay
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere with a sea-level equivalent of 7.3 m and is expected to be a key contributor to 21st century (and beyond) sea-level rise. Estimates of GrIS-induced sea-level rise are dependent upon numerical ice-sheet models, but thes...
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ftmontclairstuni:oai:digitalcommons.montclair.edu:sustainability-seminar-1032 2023-07-23T04:18:26+02:00 10,000 Years of Ice Sheet Change in Baffin Bay Young, Nicolas 2018-01-26T00:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/sustainability-seminar/2018/spring2018/15 https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/context/sustainability-seminar/article/1032/viewcontent/Young_Seminar_flier_NEY.pdf unknown Montclair State University Digital Commons https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/sustainability-seminar/2018/spring2018/15 https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/context/sustainability-seminar/article/1032/viewcontent/Young_Seminar_flier_NEY.pdf Sustainability Seminar Series Environmental Sciences Sustainability text 2018 ftmontclairstuni 2023-07-03T21:42:48Z The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere with a sea-level equivalent of 7.3 m and is expected to be a key contributor to 21st century (and beyond) sea-level rise. Estimates of GrIS-induced sea-level rise are dependent upon numerical ice-sheet models, but these models require some degree of “spin-up” or tuning to test model validity before forward modeling can commence. Within this framework, well-constrained geological records of GrIS change provide important spatial and temporal benchmarks for which to test numerical ice-sheet models. Of particular interest is reconstructing and modeling the behavior of the GrIS through the Holocene because this time period includes 1) abrupt cooling cooling events occurring on human-relevant timescales, and 2) the most recent interval of regional warmer-than-present temperatures. Thus, accurate geological and model-based reconstructions of southwestern GrIS behavior during the Holocene have clear relevance for predicting future GrIS change in response to potential freshwater induced regional cooling, and for assessing the GrIS’s contribution to eustatic sea-level rise in an overall warming world. Here, I use several approaches to precisely reconstruct the behavior of the southwestern GrIS through the Holocene – emphasizing the response of the GrIS to early Holocene abrupt cooling, and the minimum extent of the GrIS during the Holocene thermal maximum. In addition, I will draw on emerging datasets from across Baffin Bay that constrain the behavior of the Laurentide Ice Sheet through the Holocene. Combined, records from Greenland and eastern Canada suggests that ice sheets are capable of dramatic responses to extremely short-lived climate perturbations. Text Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Greenland Ice Sheet Montclair State University Digital Commons Baffin Bay Canada Greenland |
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The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere with a sea-level equivalent of 7.3 m and is expected to be a key contributor to 21st century (and beyond) sea-level rise. Estimates of GrIS-induced sea-level rise are dependent upon numerical ice-sheet models, but these models require some degree of “spin-up” or tuning to test model validity before forward modeling can commence. Within this framework, well-constrained geological records of GrIS change provide important spatial and temporal benchmarks for which to test numerical ice-sheet models. Of particular interest is reconstructing and modeling the behavior of the GrIS through the Holocene because this time period includes 1) abrupt cooling cooling events occurring on human-relevant timescales, and 2) the most recent interval of regional warmer-than-present temperatures. Thus, accurate geological and model-based reconstructions of southwestern GrIS behavior during the Holocene have clear relevance for predicting future GrIS change in response to potential freshwater induced regional cooling, and for assessing the GrIS’s contribution to eustatic sea-level rise in an overall warming world. Here, I use several approaches to precisely reconstruct the behavior of the southwestern GrIS through the Holocene – emphasizing the response of the GrIS to early Holocene abrupt cooling, and the minimum extent of the GrIS during the Holocene thermal maximum. In addition, I will draw on emerging datasets from across Baffin Bay that constrain the behavior of the Laurentide Ice Sheet through the Holocene. Combined, records from Greenland and eastern Canada suggests that ice sheets are capable of dramatic responses to extremely short-lived climate perturbations. |
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