Warm Nordic Seas delayed glacial inception in Scandinavia

International audience We simulate the last glacial inception, 115 000 years ago, with a three dimensional thermomechan-ical ice sheet model of the Northern Hemisphere, forced by a comprehensive coupled climate model. High oceanic heat transport into the Nordic Seas prevents large scale ice growth o...

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Published in:Climate of the Past
Main Authors: Born, A., Kageyama, M., Nisancioglu, K.
Other Authors: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR), Department of Biological Sciences Bergen (BIO / UiB), University of Bergen (UiB)-University of Bergen (UiB), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Modélisation du climat (CLIM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA))
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2010
Subjects:
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean
Atmosphere
[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces
environment
Ice Sheet
Nordic Seas
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-02930837
https://hal.science/hal-02930837/document
https://hal.science/hal-02930837/file/cp-6-817-2010.pdf
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-817-2010
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Summary:International audience We simulate the last glacial inception, 115 000 years ago, with a three dimensional thermomechan-ical ice sheet model of the Northern Hemisphere, forced by a comprehensive coupled climate model. High oceanic heat transport into the Nordic Seas prevents large scale ice growth over Scandinavia. Glacial inception in the region starts on the highest mountains in the south when sea surface temperatures in the Nordic Seas are reduced by at least 3 • C.

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