DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2082
论文题名: Modern and glacial tropical snowlines controlled by sea surface temperature and atmospheric mixing
作者: Tripati A.K. ; Sahany S. ; Pittman D. ; Eagle R.A. ; Neelin J.D. ; Mitchell J.L. ; Beaufort L.
刊名: Nature Geoscience
ISSN: 17520894
出版年: 2014
卷: 7, 期: 3 起始页码: 205
结束页码: 209
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: air mass
; altitude
; atmospheric convection
; atmospheric transport
; Last Glacial Maximum
; paleotemperature
; relative humidity
; sea surface temperature
; snowline
; thermal structure
; tropical environment
; Foraminifera
; Haptophyceae
英文摘要: During the Last Glacial Maximum, tropical sea surface temperatures were 1 to 3C cooler than present, but the altitude of the snowlines of tropical glaciers was lower than would be expected in light of these sea surface temperatures. Indeed, both glacial and twentieth-century snowlines seem to require lapse rates that are steeper than a moist adiabat. Here we use estimates of Last Glacial Maximum sea surface temperature in the Indo-Pacific warm pool based on the clumped isotope palaeotemperature proxy in planktonic foraminifera and coccoliths, along with radiative-convective calculations of vertical atmospheric thermal structure, to assess the controls on tropical glacier snowlines. Using extensive new data sets for the region, we demonstrate that mean environmental lapse rates are steeper than moist adiabatic during the recent and glacial. We reconstruct glacial sea surface temperatures 4 to 5C cooler than modern. We include modern and glacial sea surface temperatures in calculations of atmospheric convection that account for mixing between rising air and ambient air, and derive tropical glacier snowlines with altitudes consistent with twentieth-century and Last Glacial Maximum reconstructions. Sea surface temperature changes ≤3C are excluded unless glacial relative humidity values were outside the range associated with deep convection in the modern. We conclude that the entrainment of ambient air into rising air masses significantly alters the vertical temperature structure of the troposphere in modern and ancient regions of deep convection. Furthermore, if all glacial tropical temperatures were cooler than previously estimated, it would imply a higher equilibrium climate sensitivity than included in present models. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/106501
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 科学计划与规划
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作者单位: Department of Earth,Planetary,and Space Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States; CEREGE, CNRS/Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4, France
Recommended Citation:
Tripati A.K.,Sahany S.,Pittman D.,et al. Modern and glacial tropical snowlines controlled by sea surface temperature and atmospheric mixing[J]. Nature Geoscience,2014-01-01,7(3)