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Transient simulation of the last glacial inception. Part I : glacial inception as a bifurcation in the climate system
| Title: | Transient simulation of the last glacial inception. Part I : glacial inception as a bifurcation in the climate system |
| Authors: | Calov, Reinhard Browse this author | | Ganopolski, Andrey Browse this author | | Claussen, Martin Browse this author | | Petoukhov, Vladimir Browse this author | | Greve, Ralf Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Issue Date: | May-2005 |
| Publisher: | Springer Berlin / Heidelberg |
| Journal Title: | Climate Dynamics |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page: | 545 |
| End Page: | 561 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1007/s00382-005-0007-6 |
| Abstract: | We study the mechanisms of glacial inception by using the Earth system model of intermediate complexity, CLIMBER-2, which encompasses dynamic modules of the atmosphere, ocean, biosphere and ice sheets. Ice-sheet dynamics are described by the three-dimensional polythermal ice-sheet model SICOPOLIS. We have performed transient experiments starting at the Eemiam interglacial, at 126 ky BP (126,000 years before present). The model runs for 26 kyr with time-dependent orbital and CO2 forcings. The model simulates a rapid expansion of the area covered by inland ice in the Northern Hemisphere, predominantly over Northern America, starting at about 117 kyr BP. During the next 7 kyr, the ice volume grows gradually in the model at a rate which corresponds to a change in sea level of 10 m per millennium. We have shown that the simulated glacial inception represents a bifurcation transition in the climate system from an interglacial to a glacial state caused by the strong snow-albedo feedback. This transition occurs when summer insolation at high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere drops below a threshold value, which is only slightly lower than modern summer insolation. By performing long-term equilibrium runs, we find that for the present-day orbital parameters at least two different equilibrium states of the climate system exist—the glacial and the interglacial; however, for the low summer insolation corresponding to 115 kyr BP, we find only one, glacial, equilibrium state, while for the high summer insolation corresponding to 126 kyr BP only an interglacial state exists in the model. |
| Rights: | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
| Relation: | http://www.springerlink.com |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/29692 |
| Appears in Collections: | 低温科学研究所 (Institute of Low Temperature Science) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: Greve Ralf
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