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Title: Greenland-Wide Seasonal Temperatures During the Last Deglaciation

Abstract

The sensitivity of the Greenland ice sheet to climate forcing is of prime importance in assessing its contribution to past and future sea level rise. Surface mass loss occurs during summer, and accounting for temperature seasonality is critical in simulating ice sheet evolution and in interpreting glacial landforms and chronologies. Ice core records constrain the timing and magnitude of climate change but are largely limited to annual mean estimates from the ice sheet interior. In this work, we merge ice core reconstructions with transient climate model simulations to generate Greenland-wide and seasonally resolved surface air temperature fields during the last deglaciation. Greenland summer temperatures peak in the early Holocene, consistent with records of ice core melt layers. We perform deglacial Greenland ice sheet model simulations to demonstrate that accounting for realistic temperature seasonality decreases simulated glacial ice volume, expedites the deglacial margin retreat, mutes the impact of abrupt climate warming, and gives rise to a clear Holocene ice volume minimum.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
  2. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
  3. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen (Denmark)
  4. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1565632
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Geophysical Research Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 45; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Greenland ice sheet; last deglaciation; ice core; Holocene thermal maximum; mass balance

Citation Formats

Buizert, C., Keisling, B. A., Box, J. E., He, F., Carlson, A. E., Sinclair, G., and DeConto, R. M. Greenland-Wide Seasonal Temperatures During the Last Deglaciation. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/2017gl075601.
Buizert, C., Keisling, B. A., Box, J. E., He, F., Carlson, A. E., Sinclair, G., & DeConto, R. M. Greenland-Wide Seasonal Temperatures During the Last Deglaciation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075601
Buizert, C., Keisling, B. A., Box, J. E., He, F., Carlson, A. E., Sinclair, G., and DeConto, R. M. Wed . "Greenland-Wide Seasonal Temperatures During the Last Deglaciation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075601. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1565632.
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title = {Greenland-Wide Seasonal Temperatures During the Last Deglaciation},
author = {Buizert, C. and Keisling, B. A. and Box, J. E. and He, F. and Carlson, A. E. and Sinclair, G. and DeConto, R. M.},
abstractNote = {The sensitivity of the Greenland ice sheet to climate forcing is of prime importance in assessing its contribution to past and future sea level rise. Surface mass loss occurs during summer, and accounting for temperature seasonality is critical in simulating ice sheet evolution and in interpreting glacial landforms and chronologies. Ice core records constrain the timing and magnitude of climate change but are largely limited to annual mean estimates from the ice sheet interior. In this work, we merge ice core reconstructions with transient climate model simulations to generate Greenland-wide and seasonally resolved surface air temperature fields during the last deglaciation. Greenland summer temperatures peak in the early Holocene, consistent with records of ice core melt layers. We perform deglacial Greenland ice sheet model simulations to demonstrate that accounting for realistic temperature seasonality decreases simulated glacial ice volume, expedites the deglacial margin retreat, mutes the impact of abrupt climate warming, and gives rise to a clear Holocene ice volume minimum.},
doi = {10.1002/2017gl075601},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 4,
volume = 45,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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