Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model

The 8.2 ka event is the most prominent abrupt climate change in the Holocene and is often believed to result from catastrophic drainage of proglacial lakes Agassiz and Ojibway (LAO) that routed through the Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea into the North Atlantic Ocean, and perturbed Atlantic meridion...

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Main Authors: Y.-X. Li, H. Renssen, A. P. Wiersma, T. E. Törnqvist
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009
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geo
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/5/471/2009/cp-5-471-2009.pdf
https://doaj.org/article/9474b408acfe462fae031dc068b0d7be
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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:9474b408acfe462fae031dc068b0d7be 2023-05-15T16:35:33+02:00 Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model Y.-X. Li H. Renssen A. P. Wiersma T. E. Törnqvist 2009-08-01 http://www.clim-past.net/5/471/2009/cp-5-471-2009.pdf https://doaj.org/article/9474b408acfe462fae031dc068b0d7be en eng Copernicus Publications 1814-9324 1814-9332 http://www.clim-past.net/5/471/2009/cp-5-471-2009.pdf https://doaj.org/article/9474b408acfe462fae031dc068b0d7be undefined Climate of the Past, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 471-480 (2009) envir geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2009 fttriple 2023-01-22T16:43:35Z The 8.2 ka event is the most prominent abrupt climate change in the Holocene and is often believed to result from catastrophic drainage of proglacial lakes Agassiz and Ojibway (LAO) that routed through the Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea into the North Atlantic Ocean, and perturbed Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC). One key assumption of this triggering mechanism is that the LAO freshwater drainage was dispersed over the Labrador Sea. Recent data, however, show no evidence of lowered δ18O values, indicative of low salinity, from the open Labrador Sea around 8.2 ka. Instead, negative δ18O anomalies are found close to the east coast of North America, extending as far south as Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, suggesting that the freshwater drainage may have been confined to a long stretch of continental shelf before fully mixing with North Atlantic Ocean water. Here we conduct a sensitivity study that examines the effects of a southerly drainage route on the 8.2 ka event with the ECBilt-CLIO-VECODE model. Hosing experiments of four routing scenarios, where freshwater was introduced to the Labrador Sea in the northerly route and to three different locations along the southerly route, were performed to investigate the routing effects on model responses. The modeling results show that a southerly drainage route is possible but generally yields reduced climatic consequences in comparison to those of a northerly route. This finding implies that more freshwater would be required for a southerly route than for a northerly route to produce the same climate anomaly. The implicated large amount of LAO drainage for a southerly routing scenario is in line with a recent geophysical modelling study of gravitational effects on sea-level change associated with the 8.2 ka event, which suggests that the volume of drainage might be larger than previously estimated. Article in Journal/Newspaper Hudson Bay Labrador Sea North Atlantic Unknown Hudson Hudson Bay
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description The 8.2 ka event is the most prominent abrupt climate change in the Holocene and is often believed to result from catastrophic drainage of proglacial lakes Agassiz and Ojibway (LAO) that routed through the Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea into the North Atlantic Ocean, and perturbed Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC). One key assumption of this triggering mechanism is that the LAO freshwater drainage was dispersed over the Labrador Sea. Recent data, however, show no evidence of lowered δ18O values, indicative of low salinity, from the open Labrador Sea around 8.2 ka. Instead, negative δ18O anomalies are found close to the east coast of North America, extending as far south as Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, suggesting that the freshwater drainage may have been confined to a long stretch of continental shelf before fully mixing with North Atlantic Ocean water. Here we conduct a sensitivity study that examines the effects of a southerly drainage route on the 8.2 ka event with the ECBilt-CLIO-VECODE model. Hosing experiments of four routing scenarios, where freshwater was introduced to the Labrador Sea in the northerly route and to three different locations along the southerly route, were performed to investigate the routing effects on model responses. The modeling results show that a southerly drainage route is possible but generally yields reduced climatic consequences in comparison to those of a northerly route. This finding implies that more freshwater would be required for a southerly route than for a northerly route to produce the same climate anomaly. The implicated large amount of LAO drainage for a southerly routing scenario is in line with a recent geophysical modelling study of gravitational effects on sea-level change associated with the 8.2 ka event, which suggests that the volume of drainage might be larger than previously estimated.
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author Y.-X. Li
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A. P. Wiersma
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title Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model
title_short Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model
title_full Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model
title_fullStr Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model
title_full_unstemmed Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model
title_sort investigating the impact of lake agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model
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