Altitude of atmospheric tracer transport towards Antarctica in present and glacial climate

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Krinner, G, Petit, JR, DELMONTE, BARBARA
• Other Authors: Petit, J, Delmonte, B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2010
• Subjects: Global Circulation Models; Troposphere; Mineral dust; polar vortex; GEO/04 - GEOGRAFIA FISICA E GEOMORFOLOGIA; Antarctic; Queen Maud Land; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10281/7019; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.020

The preferential altitude of transport of continental tracers towards Antarctica under present and Last Glacial Maximum (21 kyr BP) conditions is analysed using an atmospheric general circulation model with idealized tracers which are emitted at the surface of Australia and South America. It is show...