Influence of ice sheet on AMOC through lower atmospheric circulation change during glacial climate

• Main Authors: シェリフ 多田野サム, 阿部 彩子, 吉森 正和, 陳 永利, Sherriff-Tadano Sam, Abe-Ouchi Ayako, Yoshimori Masakazu, Chan Wing-Le
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Noice; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=11696; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00011643/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=11696&item_no=1&attribute_id=16&file_no=1

Recently, some studies have revealed that, in glacial period, Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) was strongly controlled by the ice sheet and greenhouse gases (Abe-Ouchi et al. in prep; Brady et al. 2013). By comparing the results from a coupled atmosphere and ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) with and without glacial ice sheets, they showed that the ice sheets had large influence on the glacial AMOC. This process is not fully understood, but it may be related to atmospheric circulation change due to the presence of huge ice sheets (Oka et al. 2012; Montoya and Levermann 2008). Some studies have shown that in the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), the atmospheric circulation differed from that of today mainly due to the presence of the huge ice sheet, especially in the North Atlantic where the AMOC sinks. These atmospheric circulation differences would cause changes in wind stress and therefore may affect AMOC. Thus in this study, we investigate the influence of the ice sheets on glacial AMOC through wind stress. Here we use an atmosphere general circulation model, which is the atmospheric part of MIROC climate model for sensitivity experiments. As ice sheet has two effects (topography effect and albedo effect) on atmospheric circulation, we evaluate each effect separately as well. We conducted 3 experiments. The first experiment, named as NOICE, uses only the modern ice sheet distribution thus does not contain the effect of the glacial ice sheet. Second experiment, which is refferd as FLATICE experiment, contains the flat glacial ice sheet thus inclueds the albedo effect of the glacial ice sheet but not the topography effect. For the third experiment, LGM, we added the whole glacial ice sheets. Therefore, from these experiments, we can determine the total effect of glacial ice sheets as LGM-NOICE, the albedo-only effect as FLATICE-NOICE, the topography-only effect as LGM-FLATICE. Hereafter we will focus in the North Atlantic where the AMOC sinks.In the North Atlantic, consistent with previous ...