The climate in The Netherlands during the Younger Dryas and Preboreal: means and extremes obtained with an atmospheric general circulation model
The shift from the cold Younger Dryas phase to the relatively warm Pre-boreal at similar to11.5 thousand years BP occurred within 50 calendar years and represents a clear example of rapid climate warming. Geologists and palaeo-ecologists have extensively studied the impact of this shift on the envir...
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ftunistlouisbrus:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:42038 2024-05-12T08:10:56+00:00 The climate in The Netherlands during the Younger Dryas and Preboreal: means and extremes obtained with an atmospheric general circulation model Renssen, H. UCL 2001 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/42038 eng eng Veenman Drukkers boreal:42038 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/42038 urn:ISSN:0016-7746 Geologie en Mijnbouw, Vol. 80, no. 2, p. 19-30 (2001) climate change GCM Pre-boreal The Netherlands simulation Younger Dryas info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2001 ftunistlouisbrus 2024-04-18T18:14:34Z The shift from the cold Younger Dryas phase to the relatively warm Pre-boreal at similar to11.5 thousand years BP occurred within 50 calendar years and represents a clear example of rapid climate warming. Geologists and palaeo-ecologists have extensively studied the impact of this shift on the environment in The Netherlands. The global atmospheric general circulation model of the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology is applied to perform simulations of the Younger Dryas and Pre-boreal climates. Here detailed results are presented for the grid-cell representing The Netherlands, providing quantified estimates of climatic means and extremes for both periods. The results suggest that the Younger Dryas climate was characterised by cold winters (temperatures regularly below -20 degreesC) and cool summers (13-14 degreesC), with a high inter-annual variability, strong fluctuations in temperature, frequent storms and snowfall from September to May. The Pre-boreal climate was a 'continental' version of present-day climate, with cooler winters, warmer summers (similar to2 degreesC difference) and more snowfall, but lower wind speeds. Also, the Pre-boreal climate was wetter than the present and Younger Dryas climates. The main driving factors were the low temperatures of the partly sea-ice covered N Atlantic Ocean and the insolation that was very different from today, with more incoming solar radiation during summer (+30 W/m(2)) and less during winter (-10 W/m(2)). The presented detailed results could be valuable for interpreting palaeo-environmental records and for modelling studies on sedimentological processes during the Late Quaternary. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice DIAL@USL-B (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles) |
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The shift from the cold Younger Dryas phase to the relatively warm Pre-boreal at similar to11.5 thousand years BP occurred within 50 calendar years and represents a clear example of rapid climate warming. Geologists and palaeo-ecologists have extensively studied the impact of this shift on the environment in The Netherlands. The global atmospheric general circulation model of the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology is applied to perform simulations of the Younger Dryas and Pre-boreal climates. Here detailed results are presented for the grid-cell representing The Netherlands, providing quantified estimates of climatic means and extremes for both periods. The results suggest that the Younger Dryas climate was characterised by cold winters (temperatures regularly below -20 degreesC) and cool summers (13-14 degreesC), with a high inter-annual variability, strong fluctuations in temperature, frequent storms and snowfall from September to May. The Pre-boreal climate was a 'continental' version of present-day climate, with cooler winters, warmer summers (similar to2 degreesC difference) and more snowfall, but lower wind speeds. Also, the Pre-boreal climate was wetter than the present and Younger Dryas climates. The main driving factors were the low temperatures of the partly sea-ice covered N Atlantic Ocean and the insolation that was very different from today, with more incoming solar radiation during summer (+30 W/m(2)) and less during winter (-10 W/m(2)). The presented detailed results could be valuable for interpreting palaeo-environmental records and for modelling studies on sedimentological processes during the Late Quaternary. |
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The climate in The Netherlands during the Younger Dryas and Preboreal: means and extremes obtained with an atmospheric general circulation model |
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The climate in The Netherlands during the Younger Dryas and Preboreal: means and extremes obtained with an atmospheric general circulation model |
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The climate in The Netherlands during the Younger Dryas and Preboreal: means and extremes obtained with an atmospheric general circulation model |
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The climate in The Netherlands during the Younger Dryas and Preboreal: means and extremes obtained with an atmospheric general circulation model |
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The climate in The Netherlands during the Younger Dryas and Preboreal: means and extremes obtained with an atmospheric general circulation model |
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climate in the netherlands during the younger dryas and preboreal: means and extremes obtained with an atmospheric general circulation model |
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Geologie en Mijnbouw, Vol. 80, no. 2, p. 19-30 (2001) |
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