Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period
The Younger Dryas cooling event disrupted the overall warming trend in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Climate change during the Younger Dryas was abrupt and thus provides insights into the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbations. The sudden Younger Dryas cooling h...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:73647 2023-08-20T04:08:23+02:00 Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period Renssen, Hans Mairesse, Aurélien Goosse, Hugues Mathiot, Pierre Heiri, Oliver Roche, Didier M. Nisancioglu, Kerim H. Valdes, Paul J. 2015 application/pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/73647/1/ngeo2557.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/73647/ eng eng Nature Publishing Group https://boris.unibe.ch/73647/ info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Renssen, Hans; Mairesse, Aurélien; Goosse, Hugues; Mathiot, Pierre; Heiri, Oliver; Roche, Didier M.; Nisancioglu, Kerim H.; Valdes, Paul J. (2015). Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period. Nature geoscience, 8(12), pp. 946-949. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/ngeo2557 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2557> 580 Plants (Botany) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2015 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2557 2023-07-31T21:21:05Z The Younger Dryas cooling event disrupted the overall warming trend in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Climate change during the Younger Dryas was abrupt and thus provides insights into the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbations. The sudden Younger Dryas cooling has traditionally been attributed to a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation by meltwater discharges. However, alternative explanations such as strong negative radiative forcing14 and a shift in atmospheric circulation have also been offered. Here we investigate the importance of these different forcings in coupled climate model experiments constrained by data assimilation. We find that the Younger Dryas climate signal as registered in proxy evidence is best simulated using a combination of processes: a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, moderate negative radiative forcing and an altered atmospheric circulation. We conclude that none of the individual mechanisms alone provide a plausible explanation for the Younger Dryas cold period. We suggest that the triggers for abrupt climate changes such as the Younger Dryas are more complex than suggested so far, and that studies on the response of the climate system to perturbations should account for this complexity. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Nature Geoscience 8 12 946 949 |
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The Younger Dryas cooling event disrupted the overall warming trend in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Climate change during the Younger Dryas was abrupt and thus provides insights into the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbations. The sudden Younger Dryas cooling has traditionally been attributed to a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation by meltwater discharges. However, alternative explanations such as strong negative radiative forcing14 and a shift in atmospheric circulation have also been offered. Here we investigate the importance of these different forcings in coupled climate model experiments constrained by data assimilation. We find that the Younger Dryas climate signal as registered in proxy evidence is best simulated using a combination of processes: a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, moderate negative radiative forcing and an altered atmospheric circulation. We conclude that none of the individual mechanisms alone provide a plausible explanation for the Younger Dryas cold period. We suggest that the triggers for abrupt climate changes such as the Younger Dryas are more complex than suggested so far, and that studies on the response of the climate system to perturbations should account for this complexity. |
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Renssen, Hans; Mairesse, Aurélien; Goosse, Hugues; Mathiot, Pierre; Heiri, Oliver; Roche, Didier M.; Nisancioglu, Kerim H.; Valdes, Paul J. (2015). Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period. Nature geoscience, 8(12), pp. 946-949. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/ngeo2557 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2557> |
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