| DOI: | 10.5194/cp-8-1565-2012
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84881102664
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| 论文题名: | Modelling large-scale ice-sheet-climate interactions following glacial inception |
| 作者: | Gregory J.M.; Browne O.J.H.; Payne A.J.; Ridley J.K.; Rutt I.C.
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| 刊名: | Climate of the Past
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| ISSN: | 18149324
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| 出版年: | 2012
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| 卷: | 8, 期:5 | | 起始页码: | 1565
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| 结束页码: | 1580
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| 语种: | 英语
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| Scopus关键词: | albedo
; atmospheric circulation
; climate effect
; general circulation model
; glaciation
; ice margin
; ice sheet
; Laurentia
; mass balance
; orbital forcing
; paleoclimate
; parameterization
; thermomechanics
; troposphere
; Canada
; Canadian Arctic
; Fennoscandia
; Hudson Bay
; North America
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| 英文摘要: | We have coupled the FAMOUS global AOGCM (atmosphere-ocean general circulation model) to the Glimmer thermomechanical ice-sheet model in order to study the development of ice-sheets in north-east America (Laurentia) and north-west Europe (Fennoscandia) following glacial inception. This first use of a coupled AOGCM-ice-sheet model for a study of change on long palæoclimate timescales is made possible by the low computational cost of FAMOUS, despite its inclusion of physical parameterisations similar in complexity to higher-resolution AOGCMs. With the orbital forcing of 115 ka BP, FAMOUS-Glimmer produces ice caps on the Canadian Arctic islands, on the north-west coast of Hudson Bay and in southern Scandinavia, which grow to occupy the Keewatin region of the Canadian mainland and all of Fennoscandia over 50 ka. Their growth is eventually halted by increasing coastal ice discharge. The expansion of the ice-sheets influences the regional climate, which becomes cooler, reducing the ablation, and ice accumulates in places that initially do not have positive surface mass balance. The results suggest the possibility that the glaciation of north-east America could have begun on the Canadian Arctic islands, producing a regional climate change that caused or enhanced the growth of ice on the mainland. The increase in albedo (due to snow and ice cover) is the dominant feedback on the area of the ice-sheets and acts rapidly, whereas the feedback of topography on SMB does not become significant for several centuries, but eventually has a large effect on the thickening of the ice-sheets. These two positive feedbacks are mutually reinforcing. In addition, the change in topography perturbs the tropospheric circulation, producing some reduction of cloud, and mitigating the local cooling along the margin of the Laurentide ice-sheet. Our experiments demonstrate the importance and complexity of the interactions between ice-sheets and local climate. © Author(s) 2012. |
| 资助项目: | NERC, Natural Environment Research Council
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/49551
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候变化与战略
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Gregory J.M.,Browne O.J.H.,Payne A.J.,et al. Modelling large-scale ice-sheet-climate interactions following glacial inception[J]. Climate of the Past,2012-01-01,8(5)
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