Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget
A set of coupled ocean-atmosphere(-vegetation) simulations using state of the art climate models is now available for the Last Glacial Maximum ( LGM) and the Mid-Holocene ( MH) through the second phase of the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project ( PMIP2). Here we quantify the latitudinal sh...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Other Authors: | , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
European Geosciences Union
2007
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/37549 |
id |
ftunivlouvain:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:37549 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftunivlouvain:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:37549 2024-05-12T08:10:56+00:00 Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget Braconnot, P. Otto-Bliesner, B. Harrison, S. Joussaume, S. Peterchmitt, J.-Y. Abe-Ouchi, Ayako Crucifix, Michel Driesschaert, Emmanuelle Fichefet, Thierry Hewitt, C. D. Kageyama, M. Kitoh, A. Loutre, Marie-France Marti, O. Merkel, U. Ramstein, G. Valdes, P. Weber, L. Yu, Y. Zhao, Y. UCL - SC/PHYS - Département de physique UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate 2007 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/37549 eng eng European Geosciences Union boreal:37549 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/37549 urn:ISSN:1814-9324 urn:EISSN:1814-9332 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Climate of the Past, Vol. 3, no. 2, p. 279-296 (2007) info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2007 ftunivlouvain 2024-04-17T17:33:13Z A set of coupled ocean-atmosphere(-vegetation) simulations using state of the art climate models is now available for the Last Glacial Maximum ( LGM) and the Mid-Holocene ( MH) through the second phase of the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project ( PMIP2). Here we quantify the latitudinal shift of the location of the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ) in the tropical regions during boreal summer and the change in precipitation in the northern part of the ITCZ. For both periods the shift is more pronounced over the continents and East Asia. The maritime continent is the region where the largest spread is found between models. We also clearly establish that the larger the increase in the meridional temperature gradient in the tropical Atlantic during summer at the MH, the larger the change in precipitation over West Africa. The vegetation feedback is however not as large as found in previous studies, probably due to model differences in the control simulation. Finally, we show that the feedback from snow and sea-ice at mid and high latitudes contributes for half of the cooling in the Northern Hemisphere for the LGM, with the remaining being achieved by the reduced CO2 and water vapour in the atmosphere. For the MH the snow and albedo feedbacks strengthen the spring cooling and enhance the boreal summer warming, whereas water vapour reinforces the late summer warming. These feedbacks are modest in the Southern Hemisphere. For the LGM most of the surface cooling is due to CO2 and water vapour. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice DIAL@UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain) |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
DIAL@UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain) |
op_collection_id |
ftunivlouvain |
language |
English |
description |
A set of coupled ocean-atmosphere(-vegetation) simulations using state of the art climate models is now available for the Last Glacial Maximum ( LGM) and the Mid-Holocene ( MH) through the second phase of the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project ( PMIP2). Here we quantify the latitudinal shift of the location of the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ) in the tropical regions during boreal summer and the change in precipitation in the northern part of the ITCZ. For both periods the shift is more pronounced over the continents and East Asia. The maritime continent is the region where the largest spread is found between models. We also clearly establish that the larger the increase in the meridional temperature gradient in the tropical Atlantic during summer at the MH, the larger the change in precipitation over West Africa. The vegetation feedback is however not as large as found in previous studies, probably due to model differences in the control simulation. Finally, we show that the feedback from snow and sea-ice at mid and high latitudes contributes for half of the cooling in the Northern Hemisphere for the LGM, with the remaining being achieved by the reduced CO2 and water vapour in the atmosphere. For the MH the snow and albedo feedbacks strengthen the spring cooling and enhance the boreal summer warming, whereas water vapour reinforces the late summer warming. These feedbacks are modest in the Southern Hemisphere. For the LGM most of the surface cooling is due to CO2 and water vapour. |
author2 |
UCL - SC/PHYS - Département de physique UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Braconnot, P. Otto-Bliesner, B. Harrison, S. Joussaume, S. Peterchmitt, J.-Y. Abe-Ouchi, Ayako Crucifix, Michel Driesschaert, Emmanuelle Fichefet, Thierry Hewitt, C. D. Kageyama, M. Kitoh, A. Loutre, Marie-France Marti, O. Merkel, U. Ramstein, G. Valdes, P. Weber, L. Yu, Y. Zhao, Y. |
spellingShingle |
Braconnot, P. Otto-Bliesner, B. Harrison, S. Joussaume, S. Peterchmitt, J.-Y. Abe-Ouchi, Ayako Crucifix, Michel Driesschaert, Emmanuelle Fichefet, Thierry Hewitt, C. D. Kageyama, M. Kitoh, A. Loutre, Marie-France Marti, O. Merkel, U. Ramstein, G. Valdes, P. Weber, L. Yu, Y. Zhao, Y. Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget |
author_facet |
Braconnot, P. Otto-Bliesner, B. Harrison, S. Joussaume, S. Peterchmitt, J.-Y. Abe-Ouchi, Ayako Crucifix, Michel Driesschaert, Emmanuelle Fichefet, Thierry Hewitt, C. D. Kageyama, M. Kitoh, A. Loutre, Marie-France Marti, O. Merkel, U. Ramstein, G. Valdes, P. Weber, L. Yu, Y. Zhao, Y. |
author_sort |
Braconnot, P. |
title |
Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget |
title_short |
Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget |
title_full |
Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget |
title_fullStr |
Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget |
title_full_unstemmed |
Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget |
title_sort |
results of pmip2 coupled simulations of the mid-holocene and last glacial maximum - part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the itcz and mid- and high latitudes heat budget |
publisher |
European Geosciences Union |
publishDate |
2007 |
url |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/37549 |
genre |
Sea ice |
genre_facet |
Sea ice |
op_source |
Climate of the Past, Vol. 3, no. 2, p. 279-296 (2007) |
op_relation |
boreal:37549 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/37549 urn:ISSN:1814-9324 urn:EISSN:1814-9332 |
op_rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
_version_ |
1798854492675899392 |