DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-547-2015
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84926032821
论文题名: Inferring palaeo-accumulation records from ice-core data by an adjoint-based method: Application to James Ross Island's ice core
作者: Martín C. ; Mulvaney R. ; Gudmundsson G.H. ; Corr H.
刊名: Climate of the Past
ISSN: 18149324
出版年: 2015
卷: 11, 期: 3 起始页码: 547
结束页码: 557
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: atmospheric circulation
; flow modeling
; ice core
; ice flow
; mass balance
; paleoclimate
; polar front
; radar
; reconstruction
; snow accumulation
; uncertainty analysis
; velocity profile
; vertical movement
; Antarctica
; James Ross Island
; West Antarctica
英文摘要: Ice cores contain a record of snow precipitation that includes information about past atmospheric circulation and mass imbalance in the polar regions. We present a novel approach to reconstruct a climatic record - by both optimally dating an ice core and deriving from it a detailed accumulation history - that uses an adjoint-based method. The motivation of our work is the recent application of phase-sensitive radar which measures the vertical velocity of an ice column. The velocity is dependent on the history of subsequent snow accumulation, compaction and compression; in our inverse formulation of this problem, measured vertical velocity profiles can be utilized directly, thereby reducing the uncertainty introduced by ice-flow modelling. We first apply our method to synthetic data in order to study its capability and the effect of noise and gaps in the age-depth observations. The method is then applied to the ice core retrieved from James Ross Island, Antarctica. We show that the method is robust and that the results depend on the quality of the age-depth observations and the derived flow regime around the core site. The method facilitates the incorporation of increasing detail provided by ice-core analysis together with observed full-depth velocity in order to construct a complete climatic record of the polar regions. © Author(s) 2015. 资助项目: NERC, Natural Environment Research Council
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/49154
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Martín C.,Mulvaney R.,Gudmundsson G.H.,et al. Inferring palaeo-accumulation records from ice-core data by an adjoint-based method: Application to James Ross Island's ice core[J]. Climate of the Past,2015-01-01,11(3)