Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial
Large climate perturbations occurred during the transition between the penultimate glacial period and the Last Interglacial (Termination II), when the ice sheets retreated from their glacial configuration. Here we investigate the impact of ice sheet changes and associated freshwater fluxes on the cl...
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ftunivlouvain:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:176514 2024-05-19T07:31:48+00:00 Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial Goelzer, Heiko Huybrechts, Philippe Loutre, Marie-France Fichefet, Thierry UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/176514 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1721-2016 eng eng Copernicus GmbH boreal:176514 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/176514 doi:10.5194/cp-12-1721-2016 urn:ISSN:1814-9324 urn:EISSN:1814-9332 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Climate of the Past, Vol. 12, no.8, p. 1721-1737 (2016) CISM:CECI 1443 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2016 ftunivlouvain https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1721-2016 2024-04-24T01:23:55Z Large climate perturbations occurred during the transition between the penultimate glacial period and the Last Interglacial (Termination II), when the ice sheets retreated from their glacial configuration. Here we investigate the impact of ice sheet changes and associated freshwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial. The period from 135 to 120 kyr BP is simulated with the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM v.1.3 with prescribed evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet,the Greenland ice sheet, and the other Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. Variations in meltwater fluxes from the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets lead to North Atlantic temperature changes and modifications of the strength of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. By means of the interhemispheric see-saw effect, variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation also give rise to temperature changes in the Southern Hemisphere, which are additionally modulated by the direct impact of Antarctic meltwater fluxes into the Southern Ocean. Freshwater fluxes from the melting Antarctic ice sheet lead to a millennial timescale oceanic cold event in the Southern Ocean with expanded sea ice as evidenced in some ocean sediment cores, which may be used to constrain the timing of ice sheet retreat. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Ice Sheet North Atlantic Sea ice Southern Ocean DIAL@UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain) Climate of the Past 12 8 1721 1737 |
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Large climate perturbations occurred during the transition between the penultimate glacial period and the Last Interglacial (Termination II), when the ice sheets retreated from their glacial configuration. Here we investigate the impact of ice sheet changes and associated freshwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial. The period from 135 to 120 kyr BP is simulated with the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM v.1.3 with prescribed evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet,the Greenland ice sheet, and the other Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. Variations in meltwater fluxes from the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets lead to North Atlantic temperature changes and modifications of the strength of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. By means of the interhemispheric see-saw effect, variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation also give rise to temperature changes in the Southern Hemisphere, which are additionally modulated by the direct impact of Antarctic meltwater fluxes into the Southern Ocean. Freshwater fluxes from the melting Antarctic ice sheet lead to a millennial timescale oceanic cold event in the Southern Ocean with expanded sea ice as evidenced in some ocean sediment cores, which may be used to constrain the timing of ice sheet retreat. |
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Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial |
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Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial |
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Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial |
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Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial |
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Impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the Last Interglacial |
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impact of ice sheet meltwater fluxes on the climate evolution at the onset of the last interglacial |
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Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Ice Sheet North Atlantic Sea ice Southern Ocean |
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Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Ice Sheet North Atlantic Sea ice Southern Ocean |
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