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Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:00-15:00
Understanding Earth System responses during the Last Glacial Maximum
- 👤 Speaker: Dr Peter Hopcroft, University of Bristol
- 📅 Date & Time: Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
- 📍 Venue: British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B
Abstract
The last glacial maximum (21,000 yr before present) is the most recent time period with a global mean temperature change of similar magnitude, but opposite sign to that predicted for the year 2100. The global cooling of around 4C is mostly explained by a combination of additional ice-sheets covering parts of North America and Europe and lower concentrations of carbon dioxide. Many other aspects of the Earth System were also radically altered compared to the pre-industrial, including vegetation, aerosols and the methane cycle. In this talk I will show Earth System model simulations of the LGM with the CMIP5 model HadGEM2-ES in which we aimed at evaluating the changes in these systems during this time period. I will also briefly cover using these Earth System components as constraints on mechanisms of ice-age abrupt climate events such as Dansgaard-Oeschger events.
Series This talk is part of the British Antarctic Survey series.
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