Tesi: "Ice sheet and climate interactions"

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Henderson, Browne Oliver James. "Numerical modelling of large-scale ice-sheet-climate interactions". Thesis, University of Reading, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515704.

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Sanchez-Montes, Maria Luisa. "Climate-ice sheet-ocean interactions in the Gulf of Alaska through the Pliocene and Pleistocene". Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12634/.

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Global climate is characterised by a long term cooling trend since the Pliocene. However, we lack climate records from the North Pacific to confirm this. The proximity of the GOA to the Mount St. Elias, the highest mountain in the world uplifted during the Plio-Pleistocene, makes the location a target to study the Pacific climate evolution towards present climate, the influence over the growth of large ice sheets over North America as well as the tectonic-ice sheet-climate interactions. This is important as the mid-Pliocene and MIS 5e have been identified as potential analogues for current climate. This thesis focuses on the Pliocene and Pleistocene study of Site U1417 (~700km away from the coast) and U1418 (~150km away from the coast) from the Gulf of Alaska, recovered during IODP Expedition 341. Biomarker extraction and analyses are used for sea surface temperature (SSTs from UK37 and UK37’ indices), sea surface salinity (C37:4), terrestrial and aquatic organic carbon inputs (long, short chain n-alkanes, TAR index, TOC, TON, δ13C and δ15N), marine productivity (alkenone, β-sitosterol, brassicasterol, dinosterol, TOC, TON, δ13C and δ15N concentrations) reconstructions at both sites. We conclude that SST during the early Pleistocene in the GOA was an average of 1°C warmer than during the late Pliocene, the last 500kyr and at modern. The Cordilleran Ice-Sheet developed since 2.8 Ma due to St. Elias tectonic uplift. The Cordilleran Ice-Sheet growth is fed by the humidity of a relatively warm and stratified surface ocean and orographic precipitation since the Pliocene. During the last 500 kyr, warmer SST intervals are associated with a decrease in ocean stratification. Nutrient availability in the GOA is the main control for coccolithophore productivity export reduction since the early Pleistocene. Modern ocean circulation across the North Pacific was established during the LGM and possibly since MIS 4.

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Ladant, Jean-Baptiste. "Interactions climat-calotte durant la greenhouse Crétacé-Paléogène (120-34 Ma) : influence de la paléogéographie et du CO2 atmosphérique". Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015SACLV019/document.

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Les enregistrements climatiques globaux à l’échelle géologique entre le Crétacé et le début du Cénozoïque indiquent des variations de grande amplitude. Sur le long terme, celles-ci sont déterminées par l’équilibre entre la composition atmosphérique en gaz à effet de serre, principalement le CO2, issus du dégazage volcanique et l’altération continentale, modulée par les mouvements tectoniques des continents. Dans cette thèse, les liens entre paléogéographie et CO2 ont été étudiés dans le contexte des interactions entre climat et calottes de glace au cours d’un intervalle de temps dit de « greenhouse », entre 120 et 34 Ma. L’utilisation d’une suite de modèles impliquant un modèle couplé moyenne résolution, un modèle atmosphérique haute résolution et un modèle de calotte de glace, a permis de montrer que les changements paléogéographiques survenant au Crétacé ont régulé la présence de glace en Antarctique. Dans un second temps, une nouvelle méthode de couplage climat-calotte a été développée pour étudier la glaciation Eocène-Oligocène. Ces développements ont permis de reconstruire une évolution fidèle de celle-ci, en bon accord avec les données. Deux rétroactions liées à cette glaciation et à la chute concomitante du CO2 atmosphérique sont étudiées. En premier lieu, l’impact de la glaciation sur le Courant Circumpolaire Antarctique est abordé, montrant que celle-ci génère une intensification de ce courant. Ensuite, au sein d’une étude mêlant données et modèles pour documenter la présence de moussons en Asie dès l’Eocène moyen, il est montré que le changement climatique de la fin de l’Eocène induit une baisse d’intensité de la mousson asiatique. Enfin, dans la perspective d’analyser les conséquences des changements paléogéographiques du Cénozoïque sur la biogéochimie marine, des tests de sensibilité aux passages océaniques de Panama et de Drake ont été réalisés
On geological timescales, global climate proxies indicate that variations of large magnitude occur between the Cretaceous and the Cenozoic. On the long term, these variations are mostly determined by the equilibrium between the greenhouse gases composition of the atmosphere, primarily the CO2, and continental weathering set up by the spatial location of Earth’s landmasses. Here, the links between paleogeography and CO2 are looked upon in a climate-ice sheet interactions framework during a greenhouse period of Earth history (120 – 34 Ma). A suite of models involving both coupled and ice sheet models have been used to demonstrate that paleogeographic reorganizations have regulated the presence of ice over Antarctica during the Cretaceous. In a second time and using a similar setup, a new method for climate-ice sheet coupling have been developed and applied to the Eocene-Oligocene (EO) glaciation to yield a new scenario of ice evolution, in good agreement with data. Two feedbacks related to this glaciation and the coeval atmospheric CO2 fall are investigated. First, it is shown that the EO glaciation generates an intensification of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Second, within a data-model study demonstrating active Asian monsoons as old as the mid-Eocene, it is shown that the climatic change at the end of the Eocene is responsible for a reduction in the intensity of the Asian monsoon. Finally, with the aim of analysing the effect of paleogeographic changes on marine biogeochemistry during the Cenozoic, sensitivity tests to Drake Passage and Panama Seaway have been carried out

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Hoang, Thi Khanh Dieu. "A numerical approach to understanding rates of ice sheet build-up during the Quaternary". Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2025. http://www.theses.fr/2025UPASJ002.

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Au cours du Quaternaire (depuis 2.6 Ma), les calottes glaciaires connaissent différents épisodes d'avancée-retrait correspondant aux cycles glaciaires-interglaciaires. L'étude de ces événements épisodiques permet de mieux comprendre les mécanismes à l'origine de l'évolution de la Terre et d'améliorer les prévisions dans le contexte du réchauffement climatique actuel.La simulation des interactions entre les calottes polaires et le climat sur des échelles de temps aussi longues nécessite des approches de modélisation numérique qui représentent suffisamment le système réel tout en maintenant des coûts de calcul faibles. Dans la première partie de cette thèse, j'utilise un modèle système terre système terrestre de complexité intermédiaire (iLOVECLIM) couplé au modèle 3D de calotte polaires GRISLI pour simuler l'avancée abrupte de la calotte glaciaire au début du dernier cycle glaciaire (120-115 kaBP). Les résultats indiquent que les débuts de glaciation ne peuvent pas être expliqués uniquement par la théorie astronomique (en résponse aux forçages orbitaux). Les rôles de la biosphère et de l'océan par le biais de différents mécanismes de rétroaction doivent être inclus pour expliquer la localisation et l'étendue de l'avancée de la calotte glaciaire. De plus, une simulation appropriée du processus d'accumulation de la calotte glaciaire est essentielle pour obtenir des résultats corrects.Dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, j'étudie les comportements d'un modèle de neige multicouche BESSI afin de fournir une simulation de bilan de masse de surface (SMB) davantage basée sur la physique pour iLOVECLIM-GRISLI. Le modèle de neige présente de bons résultats par rapport à un modèle climatique régional MAR de pointe pour le climat actuel dans différentes conditions de calotte glaciaire. Pour le dernier interglaciaire (130-116 kaBP), BESSI forcé par iLOVECLIM montre une plus grande sensibilité aux forçages climatiques que la paramétrisation SMB existante d'iLOVECLIM-GRISLI. En outre, l'évolution du SMB simulée par BESSI-iLOVECLIM se situe également dans une fourchette acceptable par rapport à d'autres études. Cependant, comme ce modèle de neige est davantage fondé sur la physique que la paramétrisation existante, l'influence des biais d'iLOVECLIM est plus importante pour BESSI, ce qui nuit à ses performances. Moyennant des travaux à venir sur la correction de biais et la méthode de couplage, mon étude ouvre la voie à l'utilisation de BESSI dans le cadre du couplage entre le modèle de climat iLOVECLIM et le modèle de calottes glaciaires GRISLI
During the Quaternary (since 2.6 Ma), ice sheets experience different advance-retreat episodes corresponding to glacial-interglacial cycles. Studying these episodic events provides a better understanding of the mechanisms behind the Earth's evolution, improving the future projection for the current global warming.Simulating ice sheet-climate interactions for long timescales requires numerical modeling approaches that sufficiently represent the real system while maintaining low computational costs. In the first part of this thesis, I utilize an Earth System of Intermediate Complexity (iLOVECLIM) coupled to the 3D ice sheet model GRISLI to simulate the abrupt ice sheet advance during the beginning of the last glacial cycle (120-115 kaBP). The results indicate glacial inceptions cannot be explained solely by the astronomical theory (the influence of orbital forcings). The roles of the biosphere and ocean through different feedback mechanisms must be included to explain the location and extent of ice sheet advance. Also, an appropriate simulation of the ice sheet accumulation process is essential to obtain results consistent with the paleo records.In the second part of the thesis, I investigate the behaviors of a multi-layer snow model BESSI to provide a more physics-based surface mass balance (SMB) simulation for iLOVECLIM-GRISLI. The snow model exhibits good results compared to a state-of-the-art Regional Climate Model MAR for the present-day climate under different ice sheet conditions. For the Last Interglacial (130-116 kaBP), BESSI forced by iLOVECLIM shows higher sensitivity to the climate forcings than the existing SMB parameterization of iLOVECLIM-GRISLI. Additionally, the SMB evolution simulated by BESSI-iLOVECLIM is also in an acceptable range compared to other studies. However, since this snow model is more physics-based than the existing parameterization, the influence of biases of iLOVECLIM is more significant for BESSI, hampering its performance. With further work to come on bias correction and the coupling method, my study paves the way for the use of BESSI in the coupling between the iLOVECLIM climate model and the GRISLI ice sheet model

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Ladant, Jean-Baptiste. "Interactions climat-calotte durant la greenhouse Crétacé-Paléogène (120-34 Ma) : influence de la paléogéographie et du CO2 atmosphérique". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015SACLV019.

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Les enregistrements climatiques globaux à l’échelle géologique entre le Crétacé et le début du Cénozoïque indiquent des variations de grande amplitude. Sur le long terme, celles-ci sont déterminées par l’équilibre entre la composition atmosphérique en gaz à effet de serre, principalement le CO2, issus du dégazage volcanique et l’altération continentale, modulée par les mouvements tectoniques des continents. Dans cette thèse, les liens entre paléogéographie et CO2 ont été étudiés dans le contexte des interactions entre climat et calottes de glace au cours d’un intervalle de temps dit de « greenhouse », entre 120 et 34 Ma. L’utilisation d’une suite de modèles impliquant un modèle couplé moyenne résolution, un modèle atmosphérique haute résolution et un modèle de calotte de glace, a permis de montrer que les changements paléogéographiques survenant au Crétacé ont régulé la présence de glace en Antarctique. Dans un second temps, une nouvelle méthode de couplage climat-calotte a été développée pour étudier la glaciation Eocène-Oligocène. Ces développements ont permis de reconstruire une évolution fidèle de celle-ci, en bon accord avec les données. Deux rétroactions liées à cette glaciation et à la chute concomitante du CO2 atmosphérique sont étudiées. En premier lieu, l’impact de la glaciation sur le Courant Circumpolaire Antarctique est abordé, montrant que celle-ci génère une intensification de ce courant. Ensuite, au sein d’une étude mêlant données et modèles pour documenter la présence de moussons en Asie dès l’Eocène moyen, il est montré que le changement climatique de la fin de l’Eocène induit une baisse d’intensité de la mousson asiatique. Enfin, dans la perspective d’analyser les conséquences des changements paléogéographiques du Cénozoïque sur la biogéochimie marine, des tests de sensibilité aux passages océaniques de Panama et de Drake ont été réalisés
On geological timescales, global climate proxies indicate that variations of large magnitude occur between the Cretaceous and the Cenozoic. On the long term, these variations are mostly determined by the equilibrium between the greenhouse gases composition of the atmosphere, primarily the CO2, and continental weathering set up by the spatial location of Earth’s landmasses. Here, the links between paleogeography and CO2 are looked upon in a climate-ice sheet interactions framework during a greenhouse period of Earth history (120 – 34 Ma). A suite of models involving both coupled and ice sheet models have been used to demonstrate that paleogeographic reorganizations have regulated the presence of ice over Antarctica during the Cretaceous. In a second time and using a similar setup, a new method for climate-ice sheet coupling have been developed and applied to the Eocene-Oligocene (EO) glaciation to yield a new scenario of ice evolution, in good agreement with data. Two feedbacks related to this glaciation and the coeval atmospheric CO2 fall are investigated. First, it is shown that the EO glaciation generates an intensification of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Second, within a data-model study demonstrating active Asian monsoons as old as the mid-Eocene, it is shown that the climatic change at the end of the Eocene is responsible for a reduction in the intensity of the Asian monsoon. Finally, with the aim of analysing the effect of paleogeographic changes on marine biogeochemistry during the Cenozoic, sensitivity tests to Drake Passage and Panama Seaway have been carried out

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Hill, Heather W. "Abrupt climate change during the last glacial period : a Gulf of Mexico perspective". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001539.

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Pohl, Alexandre. "Compréhension du climat de l’Ordovicien à l’aide de la modélisation numérique". Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLV081.

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L’Ordovicien (485–444 Ma) est une période géologique caractérisée par laconcomitance d’une glaciation majeure et de l’une des 5 plus grandes extinctions de masse del’histoire de la Terre. Cette thèse avait pour objectif d’améliorer la compréhension de l’évolutiondu climat à cette époque à l’aide de la modélisation numérique, ain de fournir une imagecohérente de la glaciation. Nous avons d’abord démontré que la coniguration continentaleordovicienne induit une dynamique océanique particulière, à l’origine d’une instabilité climatiquepermettant un refroidissement brutal du climat global sans variation importante de laconcentration atmosphérique en CO2 (pCO2). Dans un deuxième temps, un modèle innovantcouplé climat-calotte a permis de produire la première simulation de la mise en place de la glaciationsupportée par les données géologiques, sous un scénario cohérent de baisse de la pCO2.Les résultats indiquent que les premières glaces continentales se seraient mises en place dèsl’Ordovicien Moyen (465 Ma), quelque 20 millions d’années plus tôt qu’initialement envisagé.Dans ce scénario, le franchissement de l’instabilité climatique ordovicienne marque la miseen place du maximum glaciaire au cours de l’Ordovicien terminal Hirnantien (445–444 Ma).Des expériences réalisées avec un modèle de végétation primitive montrent que le développementdes plantes non-vasculaires a pu constituer le mécanisme à l’origine de la chute de lapCO2, via une intensiication de l’altération des surfaces continentales. Enin, les interactionsentre climat et biosphère marine ont été envisagées selon 2 axes complémentaires. (i) De nouvellescontraintes ont été fournies pour comprendre la paléobiogéographie des communautésmarines, par la publication de cartes de la circulation océanique de surface modélisée sousdiférentes pCO2 au cours de l’Ordovicien Inférieur, Moyen et Supérieur. (ii) Les relationsentre variations climatiques et état redox de l’océan ont été étudiées avec un modèle d’océanrécent bénéiciant d’un module de biogéochimie marine (MITgcm). Les simulations suggèrentdes anoxies partielles (durant le Katien) ou globales (durant le Silurien inférieur) au cours dela transition Ordovicien–Silurien. Elles démontrent également que l’extinction de l’Ordovicienterminal ne serait pas liée à un évènement d’anoxie
The Ordovician (485–444 Ma) is a geological period characterized by theconcomitance of a major glaciation and one of the “Big Five” mass extinction events thatpunctuated the Earth’s history. This dissertation aimed at developing a better understandingof the climatic evolution at that time through numerical modeling, in order to providea consistent picture of the glaciation. First, it was shown that the Ordovician continentalconiguration leads to a particular ocean dynamics, which induces in turn the development ofa climatic instability that allows global climate to cool suddenly in response to subtle changesin the atmospheric partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2). Secondly, an innovative climate-ice sheetcoupled model produced the irst simulation of the glaciation that is supported by geologicaldata, in the context of a decrease in pCO2. Results show that glacial onset may have occurredas early as the Mid Ordovician (465 Ma), i.e., some 20 million years earlier than thoughtinitially. In this scenario, the climatic instability is reached during the latest Ordovician andaccounts for the onset of the Hirnantian glacial maximum (445–444 Ma). Experiments conductedwith a non-vascular vegetation model reveal that the origination and expansion of theirst land plants signiicantly intensiied continental weathering during the Ordovician andpotentially drove the drop in atmospheric CO2. Finally, the interactions between climate andthe marine biosphere were investigated based on 2 complementary axes. (i) News constraintson the paleobiogeography of marine living communities were brought through the publicationof maps showing the ocean surface circulation modeled at various pCO2 levels during theEarly, Middle and Late Ordovician. (ii) The relationships between climatic variations andthe redox state of the ocean were studied using a recent ocean model with biogeochemical capabilities(MITgcm). The simulations suggest partial and global oceanic anoxic events duringthe Katian and the early Silurian respectively. They also show that anoxia is probably notresponsible for the latest Ordovician mass extinction event

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Pohl, Alexandre. "Compréhension du climat de l’Ordovicien à l’aide de la modélisation numérique". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLV081.

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L’Ordovicien (485–444 Ma) est une période géologique caractérisée par laconcomitance d’une glaciation majeure et de l’une des 5 plus grandes extinctions de masse del’histoire de la Terre. Cette thèse avait pour objectif d’améliorer la compréhension de l’évolutiondu climat à cette époque à l’aide de la modélisation numérique, ain de fournir une imagecohérente de la glaciation. Nous avons d’abord démontré que la coniguration continentaleordovicienne induit une dynamique océanique particulière, à l’origine d’une instabilité climatiquepermettant un refroidissement brutal du climat global sans variation importante de laconcentration atmosphérique en CO2 (pCO2). Dans un deuxième temps, un modèle innovantcouplé climat-calotte a permis de produire la première simulation de la mise en place de la glaciationsupportée par les données géologiques, sous un scénario cohérent de baisse de la pCO2.Les résultats indiquent que les premières glaces continentales se seraient mises en place dèsl’Ordovicien Moyen (465 Ma), quelque 20 millions d’années plus tôt qu’initialement envisagé.Dans ce scénario, le franchissement de l’instabilité climatique ordovicienne marque la miseen place du maximum glaciaire au cours de l’Ordovicien terminal Hirnantien (445–444 Ma).Des expériences réalisées avec un modèle de végétation primitive montrent que le développementdes plantes non-vasculaires a pu constituer le mécanisme à l’origine de la chute de lapCO2, via une intensiication de l’altération des surfaces continentales. Enin, les interactionsentre climat et biosphère marine ont été envisagées selon 2 axes complémentaires. (i) De nouvellescontraintes ont été fournies pour comprendre la paléobiogéographie des communautésmarines, par la publication de cartes de la circulation océanique de surface modélisée sousdiférentes pCO2 au cours de l’Ordovicien Inférieur, Moyen et Supérieur. (ii) Les relationsentre variations climatiques et état redox de l’océan ont été étudiées avec un modèle d’océanrécent bénéiciant d’un module de biogéochimie marine (MITgcm). Les simulations suggèrentdes anoxies partielles (durant le Katien) ou globales (durant le Silurien inférieur) au cours dela transition Ordovicien–Silurien. Elles démontrent également que l’extinction de l’Ordovicienterminal ne serait pas liée à un évènement d’anoxie
The Ordovician (485–444 Ma) is a geological period characterized by theconcomitance of a major glaciation and one of the “Big Five” mass extinction events thatpunctuated the Earth’s history. This dissertation aimed at developing a better understandingof the climatic evolution at that time through numerical modeling, in order to providea consistent picture of the glaciation. First, it was shown that the Ordovician continentalconiguration leads to a particular ocean dynamics, which induces in turn the development ofa climatic instability that allows global climate to cool suddenly in response to subtle changesin the atmospheric partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2). Secondly, an innovative climate-ice sheetcoupled model produced the irst simulation of the glaciation that is supported by geologicaldata, in the context of a decrease in pCO2. Results show that glacial onset may have occurredas early as the Mid Ordovician (465 Ma), i.e., some 20 million years earlier than thoughtinitially. In this scenario, the climatic instability is reached during the latest Ordovician andaccounts for the onset of the Hirnantian glacial maximum (445–444 Ma). Experiments conductedwith a non-vascular vegetation model reveal that the origination and expansion of theirst land plants signiicantly intensiied continental weathering during the Ordovician andpotentially drove the drop in atmospheric CO2. Finally, the interactions between climate andthe marine biosphere were investigated based on 2 complementary axes. (i) News constraintson the paleobiogeography of marine living communities were brought through the publicationof maps showing the ocean surface circulation modeled at various pCO2 levels during theEarly, Middle and Late Ordovician. (ii) The relationships between climatic variations andthe redox state of the ocean were studied using a recent ocean model with biogeochemical capabilities(MITgcm). The simulations suggest partial and global oceanic anoxic events duringthe Katian and the early Silurian respectively. They also show that anoxia is probably notresponsible for the latest Ordovician mass extinction event

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Gomez, Natalya Alissa. "On Sea Level - Ice Sheet Interactions". Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11242.

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This thesis focuses on the physics of static sea-level changes following variations in the distribution of grounded ice and the influence of these changes on the stability and dynamics of marine ice sheets. Gravitational, deformational and rotational effects associated with changes in grounded ice mass lead to markedly non-uniform spatial patterns of sea-level change. I outline a revised theory for computing post-glacial sea-level predictions and discuss the dominant physical effects that contribute to the patterns of sea-level change associated with surface loading on different timescales. I show, in particular, that a large sea-level fall (rise) occurs in the vicinity of a retreating (advancing) ice sheet on both short and long timescales. I also present an application of the sea-level theory in which I predict the sea-level changes associated with a new model of North American ice sheet evolution and consider the implications of the results for efforts to establish the sources of Meltwater Pulse 1A. These results demonstrate that viscous deformational effects can influence the amplitude of sea-level changes observed at far-field sea-level sites, even when the time window being considered is relatively short (≤ 500 years).
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Davies, Bethan Joan. "British and Fennoscandian ice-sheet interactions during the Quaternary". Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2225/.

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Northeastern England and the North Sea Basin is a critical location to examine the influence of glaciation in the northern Hemisphere during the Quaternary. This region was a zone of confluence between the British and Fennoscandian Ice Sheets, and harboured several dynamic ice lobes sourced from northern Scotland, the Cheviots, the Lake District and the Southern Uplands. The region thus has some of the most complex exposures of Middle to Late Pleistocene sediments in Britain, with both interglacial and glacial sediments deposited in terrestrial and marine settings, and being sourced from both the British Isles and northern continental Europe. The research undertaken involved a thorough reinvestigation of the Quaternary sediments of northeast England, making use of enhanced exposures in coastal sections following the cessation of colliery waste dumping, and in boreholes from the North Sea. It used detailed sedimentological, stratigraphical, chronostratigraphical, lithological, petrological, and geochemical techniques to investigate their depositional processes, age, provenance signatures, and regional correlatives to construct an independent model of the eastern margin of the British-Irish Ice Sheet (BUS) throughout the Quaternary, and its interaction in the North Sea Basin with the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (PIS). This region was a zone of confluence between ice lobes sourced from northern Scotland, the Cheviots, the Lake District and the Southern Uplands, and is ideally placed for investigating the geological record of the North Sea Lobe during the Late Devensian. In addition. County Durham has one of the most northerly exposures of Middle Pleistocene sediments in Britain, including a raised beach and a Scandinavian till. This project focussed on a variety of localities in northeastern England and in the North Sea Basin, including Whitburn Bay, Shippersea Bay, Hawthorn Hive, and Warren House Gill. At Whitburn Bay, the Blackhall and Horden glacigenic members are exposed in superposition and are Late Devensian in age. The lower Blackhall Member here is interpreted as a subglacial traction till with a high percentage of locally derived erratics. A boulder pavement at the top of the till points to a switch in ice-bed conditions and the production of a melt-out lag prior to the deposition of the upper, Horden Member. This second traction till contains erratics and heavy minerals derived from crystalline bedrock sources in the Cheviot Hills and northeast Scotland, including tremolite, andalusite, kyanite and rutile. Within the Horden Member are numerous sand, clay and gravel-filled channels incised into the diamicton, which are attributed to a low energy, distributed, subglacial canal drainage system. Coupled with the hydrofractures and the boulder pavement, this suggests that a partly decoupled, fast flowing ice stream deposited the Horden Member. The eastward, on-shore direction of ice movement indicates that the ice stream was confined in the North Sea Basin, possibly by the presence of Scandinavian ice. From Hawthorn Hive to Warren House Gill, the Blackhall and Horden members are separated by the Peterlee Sands and Gravels, ice-proximal outwash sediments. Beneath the glacial sequence, some 500 m to the south is the Easington Raised Bench. The partly calcreted interglacial beach lies directly on Magnesian Limestone bedrock at 33 m O.D., and consists of beds of unconsolidated, well-bedded, imbricated, well- rounded sands and gravels. It has been dated to MIS 7 by amino acid geochronology and OSL dating. The beach contains exotic gravel, including flint, and previous workers have reported Norwegian erratics. The only currently extant source for these is the Scandinavian Drift at Warren House Gill. Warren House Gill is a classic Middle Pleistocene site, and has a complex stratigraphy, consisting of a lower "Scandinavian Drift" with overlying estuarine sediments, and an upper "Main Cheviot Drift", which comprises two tills and glaciotectonised, interstratified sands and silts, traditionally interpreted as Devensian in age. The lowest grey Scandinavian Drift is a grey, laminated clay with dropstones. It contains marine bivalve fragments, foraminifera, and clasts of northeastern Scotland and Norwegian provenance, as well as Magnesian Limestone, chalk, flint, and Triassic red marl from the North Sea. Reworked palynomorphs include Eocene dinoflagellate cysts. This is interpreted as a Middle Pleistocene glaciomarine deposit, and is renamed the 'Ash Gill Member' of the Warren House Formation, with inputs from both Scottish and Scandinavian sources. It is dated to the Middle Pleistocene by AAR dates on the shell fauna, and by the relationship to the MIS 7 age raised beach. The overlying well sorted pink and red interbedded sands and silts contain carbonate nodules and rare clasls. These shallow subaqueous sediments were deposited through suspension settling and bottom current activity, and they may be reworked loess. They are named the 'Whitesides Member' and are the highest member in the Warren House Formation. The overlying "Cheviot Drift" consists of two ice-marginal traction tills (the Blackhall and Horden members), separated by interbedded glaciofluvial red silts and sands. The till lithologies are indicative of a northern British provenance, and are rich in limestone, coal, sandstone, greywacke and dolerile. The Blackhall Member was deposited by ice during MIS 4, during a period of maximum extent of the British and Fennoscandian ice sheets and contact in the central North Sea. The Horden Member was deposited in an ice- marginal landsystem by the Late Devensian North Sea Lobe, and is correlative with the Skipsea Member in Yorkshire and the Bolders Bank Formation offshore. The Swarte Bank, Coal Pit, Fisher and Bolders Bank formations from the North Sea Basin were also examined. These subglacial and glaciomarine sediments, ranging from MIS 12 to MIS 2 in age, were all found to show a similar provenance from the Grampians, Aberdeenshire and the Scottish Highlands, indicating repeat ice-flow pathways during the Quaternary. This research has significant implications for British Quaternary stratigraphy, as it indicates that Fennoscandian ice was a significant influence on the BIIS throughout the Quaternary, and that on multiple occasions, Fennoscandian ice directly impacted the coast of eastern England. During MIS 12, a marine embayment opened in northeast England between the British and Fennoscandian ice sheets. Ice rafted material derived from both Scottish and Norwegian sources was deposited in this marine embayment. The Ash Gill Member of the Warren House Formation is an isolated remnant of this ancient glaciomarine environment, and it is separated from the overlying Devensian sediments by a substantial unconformity. During the Early Devensian, ice sourced in Scotland flowed eastwards through the Tyne Gap, where it was joined by a minor component of Lake District ice. This was a stage of maximum configuration of the BIIS, with contact with the FIS offshore. During the Last Glacial Maximum, the North Sea Lobe was constrained by the FIS offshore, forcing the North Sea Lobe onshore. This project found no evidence of Lake District erratics in County Durham, but found detrital material in the subglacial tills from the coast of northeastern Scotland.

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Yang, Lei. "Greenland ice sheet change surface climate variability and glacier dynamics /". The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180121203.

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Lecavalier, Benoit. "A Model of the Greenland Ice Sheet Deglaciation". Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30362.

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The goal of this thesis is to improve our understanding of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) and how it responds to climate change. This was achieved using ice core records to infer elevation changes of the GrIS during the Holocene (11.7 ka BP to Present). The inferred elevation changes show the response of the ice sheet interior to the Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM; 9-5 ka BP) when temperatures across Greenland were warmer than present. These ice-core derived thinning curves act as a new set of key constraints on the deglacial history of the GrIS. Furthermore, a calibration was conducted on a three-dimensional thermomechanical ice sheet, glacial isostatic adjustment, and relative sea-level model of GrIS evolution during the most recent deglaciation (21 ka BP to present). The model was data-constrained to a variety of proxy records from paleoclimate archives and present-day observations of ice thickness and extent.

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Florentine, Caitlyn Elizabeth. "Understanding Changes to Glacier and Ice Sheet Geometry| The Roles of Climate and Ice Dynamics". Thesis, University of Montana, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10934265.

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Glacier and ice sheet geometry depend on climatic and ice dynamic processes that are coupled and often highly complex. Thus, partitioning and understanding the drivers of change to glacier and ice sheet geometry requires creative approaches.

Radiostratigraphy data document emergent layers in the ablation zone of western Greenland that emulate theoretical englacial flow paths. Yet true alignment between radar layers and the englacial flow field can be uncertain because these structures have travelled hundreds of km from their original point of deposition, have been shaped by ice deformation for millennia, and have been subjected to complex and three-dimensional ice motion across steep and rugged bedrock terrain. In Chapter 2 I address this problem. Using ice dynamics information from a thermomechanically coupled, higher order ice sheet model, in conjunction with an observationally based test built on principles of mass conservation, I demonstrate that real world effects do not disrupt alignment between targeted ablation zone emergent radar layers and the local, present-day ice flow field.

Topographically driven processes such as wind-drifting, avalanching, and shading, can sustain mountain glaciers situated in settings that are otherwise unsuitable for maintaining glacier ice. Local topography can thus disrupt the way regional climate controls glacier retreat, which limits insight into the climate representativeness of some mountain glaciers. In Chapters 3 and 4 I address this issue. Analyzing glaciological, geodetic, and meteorological data, I quantitatively demonstrate that the glacier-climate relationship at a retreating cirque glacier evolved as mass balance processes associated with local topography became more influential from 1950 to 2014. I then assess regional glacier area changes in the Northern Rockies from the Little Ice Age glacial maxima to the modern. I characterize terrain parameters at each glacier and estimate glacier thickness. Using these data and extremely simple models of ice mass loss I assess climatic, topographic, and glaciological drivers. Predictable factors like initial glacier size, aspect, and elevation only partly explain the observed pattern of glacier disappearance. This implies that less predictable and poorly resolved processes like avalanching and wind-drifting drive spatially complex patterns of glacier mass change across this mountain landscape.

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Howell, Fergus William. "Sea ice climate interactions in the Pliocene Arctic". Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11692/.

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The mid-Pliocene Warm Period (mPWP, 3.264 to 3.025 Myr ago) has been extensively studied through the use of general circulation models (GCMs). Whilst the output from these simulations replicates closely many of the patterns of the climate of the interval indicated by proxy data, at northern high latitudes the reconstructed proxy data temperatures exceed the model temperatures by over 15˚C for some sites. This data-model discrepancy highlights the importance of focusing on model representation of processes that strongly affect the northern high latitude climates. Arctic sea ice exerts a strong influence on the Arctic climate, largely due to the ice-albedo feedback mechanism, and by creating an insulating layer between the ocean and the atmosphere. Interest in Arctic sea ice and its representation in climate models has been enhanced in recent years due to the rapid decline in the September minimum sea ice extent that has been observed since the advent of satellite observations in 1979. This thesis describes the results from simulations of the mPWP with the GCM HadCM3, focusing on the simulated Arctic temperatures and sea ice. A change to the parameterisation of sea ice albedo is implemented in the model, based on recent observations of changes in the albedo of Arctic sea ice. The results show mean annual surface air temperature (SAT) increases of up to 6˚C, and mean annual sea surface temperature (SST) increases of up to 2˚C, and the disappearance of Arctic sea ice in some summer months, but very small changes in the discrepancy between the model and proxy data temperatures. The sensitivity of simulated Arctic sea ice to orbital forcings and atmospheric CO2 in HadCM3 is also explored, with the results suggesting that changes in orbital forcing are sufficient to change the simulated mid-Pliocene Arctic from perennial to seasonal sea ice, unless combined with lower CO2 concentrations. Changes to orbits and CO2 are also combined with the alternative albedo parameterisation, and further data-model comparisons are performed, with the results continuing to show cooler model temperatures, but with a reduced gap. Also shown are the simulated Arctic sea ice outputs from eight different GCMs as part of the Pliocene Modelling Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP). The comparison demonstrates the model dependency on the simulation of Arctic sea ice, as only half of the models simulate perennial Arctic sea ice in the mid-Pliocene. The dominant influences on the sea ice simulation in the ensemble are also discussed.

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Muschitiello, Francesco. "Deglacial impact of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet on the North Atlantic climate system". Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-128147.

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The long warming transition from the Last Ice Age into the present Interglacial period, the last deglaciation, holds the key to our understanding of future abrupt climate change. In the last decades, a great effort has been put into deciphering the linkage between freshwater fluxes from melting ice sheets and rapid shifts in global ocean-atmospheric circulation that characterized this puzzling climate period. In particular, the regional expressions of climate change in response to freshwater forcing are still largely unresolved. This projects aims at evaluating the environmental, hydro-climatic and oceanographic response in the Eastern North Atlantic domain to freshwater fluxes from the Scandinavian Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation (~19,000-11,000 years ago). The results presented in this thesis involve an overview of the regional representations of climate change across rapid climatic transitions and provide the groundwork to better understand spatial and temporal propagations of past atmospheric and ocean perturbations. Specifically, this thesis comprises i) a comparison of pollenstratigraphic records from densely 14C dated lake sediment sequences, which provides insight into the regional sensitivity of North European vegetation to freshwater forcing in the Nordic Seas around the onset of the Younger Dryas stadial (~12,900 years ago); ii) a reconstruction of North European hydro-climate, which, together with transient climate simulations, shed light on the mechanisms and regionality of climate shortly prior to the transition into the Younger Dryas stadial; iii) studies of a ~1250-year long glacial varve chronology, which provides an accurate timing for the sudden drainage of proglacial freshwater stored in the former ice-dammed Baltic Ice Lake into the North Atlantic Ocean; iv) a 5000-year long terrestrial-marine reconstruction of Eastern North Atlantic hydro-climate and oceanographic changes that clarifies the hitherto elusive relationship between freshwater forcing and the transient behaviour of the North Atlantic overturning circulation system. The results presented in this thesis provide new important temporal constraints on the events that punctuated the last deglaciation in Northern Europe, and give a clearer understanding of the ocean – atmosphere – ice-sheet feedbacks that were at work in the North Atlantic. This increases our understanding of how the Earth climate system functions in more extreme situations.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: In press. Paper 4: Manuscript.

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Burkhart, John F. "Variability of nitrogen deposition and preservation over the Greenland Ice Sheet". Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1069%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Wang, Zhaomin. "A simple coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice-land surface-ice sheet model for climate and paleoclimate studies". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/NQ55391.pdf.

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Wang, Zhaomin 1963. "A simple coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice-land surface-ice sheet model for climate and paleoclimate studies /". Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36068.

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We develop a new coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice-land surface-ice sheet model for long-term climate change studies. This five-component model incorporates the seasonal cycle, and the three major ocean basins, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current region and the major continents are resolved. The model variables are sectorially averaged across the different ocean basins and continents.
The above coupled model (less the ice sheet component) is first used to simulate the major features of the present day climate. In a global warming (cooling) experiment, the thermohaline circulation (THC) in the North Atlantic Ocean is weakened (intensified) due to the increased (reduced) moisture transport to, and warmer (cooler) sea surface temperatures at northern high latitudes.
Secondly, the above four-component model is employed to investigate the initiation of glaciation, which is accomplished by reducing the solar radiation and increasing the planetary emissivity only in high northern latitudes. When land ice is growing, the THC in the North Atlantic Ocean is intensified, resulting in a warm subpolar North Atlantic Ocean. The intensified THC maintains a large land-ocean thermal contrast at high latitudes, which leads to enhanced land ice accumulation. We conclude that increased fresh water or massive iceberg discharge from land is responsible for a weak or collapsed THC.
Lastly, a dynamic ice sheet model is coupled to the above four-component model. Sensitivity experiments show that a smaller lateral (east-west) ice discharge rate maintains a larger ice volume and extent in our model. Also, a reduced atmospheric CO2 concentration, which is parameterized as an increased planetary emissivity, may lead to the expansion of the ice sheets and hence a larger ice volume and extent. A simple iceberg calving scheme is next introduced to investigate ice sheet-THC interactions on the millennial timescale. We find that the longer the duration of iceberg calving, the longer the time that must elapse before the next calving event can occur. Also, it is shown that the strength of the THC in the North Atlantic Ocean is very sensitive to the discharge rate of the ice sheets. This makes the simulation of the interactions between ice sheets and the THC extremely challenging.

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Candela, Salvatore G. "Greenland Ice Sheet Changes in Rates of Surface Elevation Change between 1978 and 2015". The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543498988161871.

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Hall, Alison. "The interaction between climate and ice sheets : with special reference to the boundary layer of the ablation zone". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14965.

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Investigations of the interaction between climate and ice sheets were originally based on the orbital theory of the ice ages, and arose through a desire to understand the glacial cycles. More recently, interest has been stimulated in this field, with concern of global warming and the role of ice sheets with respect to future climatic change. The work of glaciologists shows that ice sheet models are very sensitive to the climate of the ablation zone. Studies by climatologists tend to look at the larger scale climate, concentrating on accumulation, rather than ablation patterns. This work looks at the way in which climate models can be used to simulate the climate over an ice sheet, in order to assess the climatic variables most sensitive to ice sheet evolution. Data of the climate over the present day ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland have been compiled and presented in a form suitable for comparison with GCM data. The work shows that GCM's cannot reproduce the temperature field, and boundary layer structure sufficiently accurately to provide boundary conditions for an ice sheet model. A slab model is developed and used over the glacial slopes to investigate the way in which the boundary layer may affect the ablation of the ice. Over the glacial slopes, the boundary layer flow is turbulent and characterised by entrainment of warm air from above. The rate of entrainment governs the depth, temperature and wind regime of the boundary layer. Two new types of entrainment parameterisation are investigated, and compared to the laboratory derived formulation of Ellison &38 Turner (1959). Experiments show that the method of parameterisation of entrainment is not important, although the coefficients derived in the laboratory tend to be too high; this suggests that there is more loss of TKE from the boundary layer on the glacial slopes, than empirical data from the laboratory suggests. The model is run using surface profiles from present ice sheets, as well as reconstructed profiles from the Laurentide ice sheet at the last glacial maximum. The model is used to look at the climatic parameters which influence the ablation of ice, as well as the way in which the ice sheet itself may influence the climate of the boundary layer. Conclusions show that the evolution of ice depends on a balance between the upper geostrophic wind, the boundary layer development, ice sheet shape and surface radiation budget. If an ice sheet steepens as it retreats, the air accelerates, producing a warmer boundary layer via entrainment. This will enhance the steepening process, and increase the rate of retreat of the ice.

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Jung, Jihoon. "Temporal and spatial characteristics of Greenland ice sheet net snow accumulation (1781–2008)". The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343848275.

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Robinson, Alexander. "Modeling the Greenland Ice Sheet response to climate change in the past and future". Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5043/.

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The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) contains enough water volume to raise global sea level by over 7 meters. It is a relic of past glacial climates that could be strongly affected by a warming world. Several studies have been performed to investigate the sensitivity of the ice sheet to changes in climate, but large uncertainties in its long-term response still exist. In this thesis, a new approach has been developed and applied to modeling the GIS response to climate change. The advantages compared to previous approaches are (i) that it can be applied over a wide range of climatic scenarios (both in the deep past and the future), (ii) that it includes the relevant feedback processes between the climate and the ice sheet and (iii) that it is highly computationally efficient, allowing simulations over very long timescales. The new regional energy-moisture balance model (REMBO) has been developed to model the climate and surface mass balance over Greenland and it represents an improvement compared to conventional approaches in modeling present-day conditions. Furthermore, the evolution of the GIS has been simulated over the last glacial cycle using an ensemble of model versions. The model performance has been validated against field observations of the present-day climate and surface mass balance, as well as paleo information from ice cores. The GIS contribution to sea level rise during the last interglacial is estimated to be between 0.5-4.1 m, consistent with previous estimates. The ensemble of model versions has been constrained to those that are consistent with the data, and a range of valid parameter values has been defined, allowing quantification of the uncertainty and sensitivity of the modeling approach. Using the constrained model ensemble, the sensitivity of the GIS to long-term climate change was investigated. It was found that the GIS exhibits hysteresis behavior (i.e., it is multi-stable under certain conditions), and that a temperature threshold exists above which the ice sheet transitions to an essentially ice-free state. The threshold in the global temperature is estimated to be in the range of 1.3-2.3°C above preindustrial conditions, significantly lower than previously believed. The timescale of total melt scales non-linearly with the overshoot above the temperature threshold, such that a 2°C anomaly causes the ice sheet to melt in ca. 50,000 years, but an anomaly of 6°C will melt the ice sheet in less than 4,000 years. The meltback of the ice sheet was found to become irreversible after a fraction of the ice sheet is already lost – but this level of irreversibility also depends on the temperature anomaly.
Das grönländische Inlandeis (GIS) besteht aus einem Wasservolumen das ausreicht, um den globalen Meeresspiegel um 7 Meter ansteigen zu lassen. Es ist ein Relikt der vergangenen Eiszeit, das in einer zunehmend wärmer werdenden Welt stark in Mitleidenschaft gezogen werden könnte. In der vorliegenden Dissertation ist ein neues Verfahren zur Modellierung des Antwortverhaltens des Inlandeises auf Klimaänderungen entwickelt und angewendet worden. Die Vorteile des neuen Verfahrens im Vergleich zu den bisherigen Verfahren sind, (i) dass es über einen groen Bereich von Klimaszenarien (sowohl für die ferne Vergangenheit als auch für die Zukunft) anwendbar ist, (ii) dass es die wesentlichen Rückkopplungsprozesse zwischen Klima und Inlandeis enthält und (iii) dass es wegen seiner guten Rechenzeiteffizienz Simulationen über sehr lange Zeitskalen erlaubt. Das neue Modell (REMBO) ist für die Modellierung des Klimas und der Massenbilanz an der grönländischen Oberfläche entwickelt worden und stellt ein verbessertes Verfahren im Vergleich zu den bisherigen dar. Die Entwicklung von GIS über den letzten glazialen Zyklus ist mittels eines Ensembles von verschiedenen Modellversionen simuliert worden. Anschließend ist die Tauglichkeit der Modellversionen durch Vergleich mit Beobachtungsdaten des gegenwärtigen Klimas und der Oberflächenmassenbilanz, sowie mit paleoklimatischen Rekonstruktionen von Eisbohrkernen verifiziert worden. Der Anteil von GIS am Meeresspiegelanstieg während des letzten Interglazials ist im Bereich von 0.5 bis 4.1 m berechnet worden, was konsistent mit bisherigen Schätzungen ist. Von den Ensemblesimulationen sind diejenigen ausgewählt worden, deren Ergebnisse gut mit den Daten übereinstimmen. Durch die Auswahl von geeigneten Modellversionen sind gleichzeitig die Unsicherheiten der Parameterwerte begrenzt worden, so dass sich nun mit dem neuen Verfahren die Sensitivität von GIS auf Klimaänderungen bestimmen lässt. Mit den ausgewählten Modellversionen ist die Sensitivität von GIS auf langfristige Klimaänderungen untersucht worden. Es zeigt sich, dass das GIS ein Hystereseverhalten besitzt (d.h., eine Multistabilität für gewisse Klimazustände) und dass ein Temperaturschwellwert existiert. Bei Überschreiten des Schwellwertes bleibt das GIS nicht erhalten und wird langsam eisfrei werden. Der Temperaturschwellwert der globalen Mitteltemperatur relativ zur vorindustriellen Mitteltemperatur ist im Bereich 1.3-2.3°C ermittelt worden und liegt damit deutlich niedriger als bisher angenommen. Die Zeitdauer bis zum völligen Abschmelzen zeigt ein nichtlineares Verhalten hinsichtlich einer Erwärmung über den ermittelten Schwellwert. Eine Erwärmung von 2°C relativ zur vorindustriellen Zeit führt zu einem Abschmelzen nach 50.000 Jahren, aber eine Erwärmung um 6°C lässt das Inlandeis bereits nach 4.000 Jahren abschmelzen. Ein weiteres Ergebnis ist, dass der Abschmelzvorgang irreversibel werden kann, nachdem ein gewisser Anteil des Inlandeises abgeschmolzen ist – jedoch ist die Irreversibilität eines Abschmelzvorganges auch von der Temperaturanomalie abhängig.

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Tinder, Phaedra C. "Ocean-Ice Interactions at Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier, Southeast Iceland". The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339663923.

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Snow, Tasha. "Timing of Svalbard/Barents Sea Ice Sheet Decay during the Last Glacial Termination". Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5313.

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The Arctic and North Atlantic underwent significant climactic changes since the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000 years before present (1950 AD); ka BP), but offsets in the timing of events between the two regions are poorly constrained due to age model uncertainties that arise from changing radiocarbon reservoir ages. Here, we use a relatively high-resolution, multi-proxy stable isotope and sedimentologic dataset from Eastern Fram Strait (ODP Leg 162 Site 986) marine sediments to constrain the timing of Svalbard/Barents Sea Ice Sheet decay and infer deglacial reservoir ages over the last 30 ka. We use magnetic susceptibility, inorganic and organic carbon, foraminiferal assemblage counts, planktonic foraminiferal isotopes, and iceberg-rafted debris proxies to infer glaciomarine and paleoclimactic processes in Eastern Fram Strait. Significant negative Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sinistral) δ18O episodes from background levels at 18.8 ka (-3.0 /) and 20.4 ka (-0.8 /) (on a radiocarbon-based age model) are shown to indicate meltwater discharge events from the Svalbard/Barents Sea Ice Sheet during the early glacial termination (21-14.7 ka). To allow for direct comparison between the timing of Eastern Fram Strait meltwater events and North Atlantic climate changes, the ODP Site 986 age model is correlated to the well-dated Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core δ18O record. The refined age model suggests that 16.0 and 18.1 ka are more realistic estimates for the meltwater events, inferring surface ocean reservoir age shifts of 1750 ± 1050 years in Eastern Fram Strait during the early glacial termination. Trends in reservoir ages throughout the last deglaciation mirror Nordic Sea deep ocean circulation changes and previously reported trends in the sub-polar North Atlantic; however, reservoir ages appear to be greater in Eastern Fram Strait. We hypothesize that processes affecting the distribution of reservoir ages in the North Atlantic and Arctic (e.g. sea ice cover, meltwater input, and ocean circulation) may have resulted in larger reservoir ages in polar regimes than in sub-polar ones during the last deglaciation, analogous to contemporary distributions. In contrast to previous radiocarbon age model-based studies in the Nordic Seas that predict a significant meltwater event at ~19 ka, these findings show that rapid Svalbard/Barents Sea Ice Sheet decay began at 16 ka and suggest that uncertainty on the order of thousands of years may exist in previous paleoclimate studies with radiocarbon-based age models from the deglacial Nordic Seas and Arctic.

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Mårtensson, Sebastian. "Ridged sea ice modelling in climate applications". Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Meteorologiska institutionen (MISU), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-93977.

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This work aims to increase our understanding of the nature of large scale features of sea ice from a dynamics point of view.Sea ice plays an important part in the exchange of heat and humidity between sea and air and thus is an important component of the climate system. Its physical presence also directly impacts the various forms of life such as diatoms, polar bears and humans alike.The dynamics of sea ice affect both weather and climate, through the large scale drift in the Arctic from the Siberian coast towards Fram Strait, through creation of cracks in the ice called leads or polynyas, and through ridging and other mechanical deformations of ice floes.In this work, we have focused on modelling of ridged ice for a number of reasons. Direct observations of the internal ice state is very difficult to perform and in general, observations of sea ice are either sparse or of limited information density. Ridged ice can be seen as the memory of high ice stress events, giving us a view on these highly dynamic events. Ridging is of major importance for the ice thickness distribution, as the thickest ice can only be formed through mechanical processes. Further, ridged ice is of direct interest for anyone conducting shipping through seasonal or perennial ice covered seas as it can form impenetrable barriers or in extreme even cases crush a ship caught within the ice pack. To this end, a multi-category sea ice model, the HELsinki Multi category Ice model (HELMI), was implemented into the Rossby Centre Ocean model (RCO). HELMI has explicit formulations for ridged and rafted ice, as well as sub-grid scale ice thickness distribution (a feature shared with other multi category models) and an ice strength based on energetics. These features give RCO better representation of sub-grid scale physics and gives us the possibility to study the deformed ice in detail. In paper I we look at the change in behaviour in the Arctic as the ice becomes more mobile, leading to a slight increase in modelled ridged ice volume in the central Arctic, despite a general trend of a decreasing ice cover.Paper II takes us to the Baltic Sea and the possibilities of modelling ridge ice concentration with a statistical model.In Paper III we investigate how the diminishing ice cover in future scenarios affects the biological activity in the Baltic Sea.Finally Paper IV investigates how the ice stress and the internal ice force can be interpreted in terms of ice compression on the ship scale.

At the time of the doctoral defence the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Manuscript

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Song, Zhaoyang [Verfasser]. "Influences of Seaways, Atmospheric CO2 and Greenland Ice Sheet on the Pliocene Climate in the Kiel Climate Model / Zhaoyang Song". Kiel : Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1148425004/34.

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Löfverström, Marcus. "On the interaction between ice sheets and the large-scale atmospheric circulation over the last glacial cycle". Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Meteorologiska institutionen (MISU), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-107925.

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The last glacial cycle (c. 115-12 kyr BP) was the most recent in a series of recurring glaciations of the subpolar continents. Massive ice sheets evolved in Eurasia and North America, which, at their maximum, were of continental scale and together lowered the global sea-level by approximately 100 m. The paleo-modelling community has focused on the last glacial maximum (LGM, ~ 20 kyr BP), leaving the longer period when the ice sheets evolved to their LGM configurations largely unexplored. In this thesis we study the mutual interaction between the time-mean atmospheric circulation and the evolution of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets over the build-up phase of the last glacial cycle. Experiments are conducted with coupled atmosphere-ice-sheet models and a circulation model forced by geologically consistent reconstructions of the ice-sheet topography at key stages of the glacial cycle. The main findings from these studies are that the ice evolution in North America may have been controlled by circulation anomalies induced by the background topography in conjunction with the ice sheets themselves. A geologically consistent pre-LGM ice sheet could only be obtained when including the North American Cordillera. However, the ice sheets' influence on the local climate conditions is also found to be paramount for this configuration. We further suggest that the incipient ice sheets may have had a limited influence on the large-scale winter circulation as a result of their location relative the westerly mean flow. The LGM Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) was, however, different because of its continent-wide extent, and it may therefore have had a large influence on the planetary-scale circulation, especially in the Atlantic sector. We find that the planetary waves forced by the LIS were considerably larger than at earlier times, and, as a result of a more frequent planetary wave reflection over the Atlantic Ocean basin, an altered stationary wave field and a zonalised winter jet.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.

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Beadling, Rebecca Lynn. "Impact of the Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in 21st Century Model Projections". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613379.

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Contemporary observations show an increase in the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) since the early 21st century. Located near the critical sites of oceanic deep convection and deep water formation, the melting of the GrIS has the potential to directly impact the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) by freshening ocean surface waters in these regions. The majority of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models project a decline in AMOC strength by 10-50% during the 21st century, in response to the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations. However, due to the simple treatment of polar ice sheets and the lack of a dynamical ice sheet component in these models, these projections likely underestimated the impacts of the GrIS melt, leading to uncertainty in projecting future AMOC evolution and climate change around Greenland. To better understand the impact of the GrIS melt on the AMOC, we perform a series of 21st century projection runs with a state-of-the-art Earth System Model-GFDL ESM2Mb. We consider a medium and a high Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenario (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively). Unlike the CMIP5-standard RCP runs which included only radiative forcing, the new model experiments are also forced with additional and potentially more realistic meltwater discharge from the GrIS. This meltwater discharge is estimated based on a model-based relationship between the GrIS surface melt and the 500hPa atmospheric temperature anomalies over Greenland. The model simulations indicate that compared to the RCP4.5-only and RCP8.5-only projections, the additional melt water from the GrIS can further weaken the AMOC, but with a relatively small magnitude. The reason is that radiative forcing already weakens the deep convection and deep water formation in the North Atlantic, therefore limiting the magnitude of further weakening of AMOC due to the additional meltwater. The modeling results suggest that the AMOC's sensitivity to freshwater forcing due to the GrIS melt is highly dependent on the location and strength of oceanic deep convection sites in ESM2Mb as well as the pathways of the meltwater towards these regions. The additional meltwater contributes to the minimum surface warming (so-called "warming hole") south of Greenland. These simulations with ESM2Mb contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Model Intercomparison Project (AMOCMIP), a community effort between international modeling centers to investigate the impacts of the melting of the GrIS on the AMOC and quantify the associated uncertainty.

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Van, Liefferinge Brice. "Thermal state uncertainty assessment of glaciers and ice sheets: Detecting promising Oldest Ice sites in Antarctica". Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/268026.

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In a warming world, glaciers and ice sheets have an increasingly large influence on the environment, particularly through their contribution to sea level rise. Their response to anthropogenic climate change, in addition to natural variability, has a critical impact on dependent populations and will be key to predict future climates. Understanding the past natural transitions is also important as if the natural variability of the climate system is not well understood, we stand little change of accurately predicting future climate changes, especially in the context of rapid global warming. Ice cores represent the best time capsules for the recovery of paleo-climate informations. For that, the recovery of a suitable 1.5 million-year-old ice core in Antarctica is fundamental to better understand the natural climate reorganisation which occurred between 0.9 and 1.2 Ma. Constraining the englacial and basal temperature evolution of glaciers and ice sheets through time is the first step in understanding their temporal stability and therefore potential impacts on climate. Furthermore, obtaining the best constraints on basal conditions is essential as such million-year-old ice will be located very near to the bedrock, where the thermal regime has the strongest impact. However, measurements of current englacial and basal temperature have only been obtained at a few drill sites for glaciers and ice sheets. We must therefore turn to thermodynamical models to provide theoretical and statistical constraints on governing thermal processes. Thermodynamical models rely on a suite of governing equations, which we describe in this thesis. Our first study area is the McCall glacier, in Alaska (USA), where we show that the glacier cooled down in the warming climate of the last 50 years using a 1D thermodynamical model. We calculate the present-day englacial temperature distribution using recently acquired data in the form of englacial temperature measurements and radio-echo sounding surveys of the glacier. We show the important of absence of latent heat release due to the refreezing of meltwater inside an active surface layer and reconstruct the last 50 years of equilibrium line altitude (ELA) elevation changes. In the context of Beyond Epica Oldest Ice, a European project aimed at recovering a 1.5 million year-old ice core, we propose for the first time a map of the location of adequate drilling sites for the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet. We use a 3D thermomechanical model to calculate a new basal temperature map of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, as well as a 1D thermodynamical model to constrain the poorly known geothermal heat flux (GHF). These combined model runs use the latest acquired data sets for the GHF, ice flow velocity, ice thickness and subglacial lakes. In order to take into account 2 Ma of Antarctic climate history, we use a transient 1D thermodynamical model to provide constraints on GHF by calculating the maximum value of GHF allowed to keep frozen basal conditions everywhere underneath the ice sheet. These values are then statistically compared to published GHF data sets to propose a probabilistic map of frozen and thawed bedrock locations. This transient model uses high spatial resolution radar data acquired over the Dome Fuji and Dome C regions to examine their likelihood of having preserved 1.5-million-year ice. We define a number of important criteria such as GHF, bedrock variability, ice thickness and other parameter values for Oldest Ice survival. We anticipate that our methods will be highly relevant for Oldest Ice prospection in other areas of the ice sheet that so far remain little or un-surveyed, as well as for the thermal modelling of other glaciers and ice sheets, and in particular, of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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Day, Jonathan. "The impact of 21st century Arctic sea ice decline on the climate and mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet and Svalbard's glaciers and ice caps". Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559277.

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The Arctic is a region particularly susceptible to rapid climate change. General circulation models (GCMs) suggest a polar amplification of any global warming signal by a factor of about 1.5 due, in part, to sea ice feedbacks. The dramatic recent decline in multi-year sea ice cover lies outside the standard deviation of the CMIP3 ensemble GCM predictions. Sea ice acts as a barrier between cold air and warmer oceans during winter, as well as inhibiting evaporation from the ocean surface water during the summer. An ice free Arctic would likely have an altered hydrological cycle with more evaporation from the ocean surface leading to changes in precipitation distribution and amount. Using the U.K. Met Office Regional Climate Model (RCM), HadRM3, the atmospheric effects of the observed and projected reduction in Arctic sea ice are investigated. The RCM is driven by the atmospheric GCM HadAM3. Both models are forced with sea surface temperature and sea ice for the period 2061-2090 from the CMIP3 HadGEM1 experiments. Here we use an RCM at 50km resolution over the Arctic and 25km over Svalbard, which captures well the present-day pattern of precipitation and provides a detailed picture of the projected changes in the behaviour of the oceanic-atmosphere moisture fluxes and how they affect precipitation. These experiments show that the projected 21stCentury sea ice decline alone causes large impacts to the surface mass balance (SMB) on Svalbard. However Greenland’s SMB is not significantly affected by sea ice decline alone, but responds with a strongly negative shift in SMB when changes to SST are incorporated into the experiments. This is the first study to characterise the impact of changes in future sea ice to Arctic terrestrial cryosphere mass balance.

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Duncan, Kyle. "Reconstructing surface elevation changes for the Greenland Ice Sheet (1993-2013) and analysis of Zachariae Isstrom, northeast Greenland". Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1600748.

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Previous studies investigating the velocity and elevation change records of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) revealed rapid and complex changes. It is therefore imperative to determine changes with both high spatial and temporal resolutions. By fusing multiple laser altimetry data sets, the Surface Elevation Reconstruction and Change (SERAC) program is capable of reconstructing surface elevation changes with high spatial and temporal resolution over the entire GrIS. The input data include observations from NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) mission (2003-2009) as well as data collected by NASA’s Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) (1993-2013) and Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) (2007-2012) airborne laser altimetry systems. This study extends the record of surface elevation changes over the GrIS by adding 2012 and 2013 laser altimetry data to the previous 1993-2011 record. Extending the record leads to a new, more accurate and detailed altimetry record for 1993-2013.

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are fused with laser altimetry data over Zachariæ Isstrøm, northeast Greenland to analyze surface elevation changes and associated thinning rates during 1978-2014. Little to no elevation change occurred over Zachariæ Isstrøm from 1978-1999, however, from 1999-2014 elevation changes near the calving front became increasingly negative and accelerated. Calving front position showed steady retreat and grounding line position has been retreating towards the interior of the ice sheet at an increasing rate from 2010-2014 when compared to the 1996-2010 period. The measured elevation changes near the calving front have brought a large portion of the glacier close to the height of flotation. If the current thinning trend continues this portion of the glacier will reach flotation within the next 2-5 years allowing for further retreat and increased vulnerability to retreat for sections of the glacier further upstream.

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Williams, Jessica. "Toward a Better Understanding of Recent Warming of the Central West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Shallow Firn Cores". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3939.

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Previous studies have shown significant warming through the 1990s in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS); but the records used in those studies end in early 2000, preventing trend analysis into the latest decade. Fourteen new snowpits and firn cores were collected in 2010 and 2011, which have been combined with previous cores to extend the isotopic records over WAIS. Significance of these isotopic patterns across WAIS was determined and is used to re-evaluate the warming of the West Antarctic interior over recent decades. We find that isotopic records longer than 50 years are needed to assess climate trends due to decadal variability. When assessed over periods greater than 50 years, there is a statistically significant warming trend over central WAIS. However, the isotopes in the 2000s are anomalously low in the isotopic records, which challenge the recent suggestion that the warming trend is accelerating. We attribute the isotopic low over the most recent decade to the coupling effect of anomalously low temperatures over central WAIS and associated increase in sea ice in the adjacent seas. This work strongly indicates that decadal variability and likely climate trends are both driven, at least in part, by atmospheric variability in the tropics as well as at high latitudes.

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Arthern, Robert James. "The impact of climate variability on the determination of ice-sheet mass balance using satellite radar altimetry". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266320.

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Golledge, Nicholas Robert. "Glacial geology and glaciology of the Younger Dryas ice cap in Scotland". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3789.

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This thesis uses geological field data and numerical ice sheet modelling to study the Younger Dryas ice cap in Scotland. The Younger Dryas stadial is important because it represents the most recent period of high-magnitude global climate change, and was marked by the expansion of ice sheets in North America and Scandinavia, and the regrowth of glaciers in the British Isles. An integrated methodology linking field results and modelling is developed and applied here, specifically focussing on the deposits, landforms, and palaeoglaciology of Younger Dryas glaciers in western Scotland. This combined approach enables data of different scales to be compared, and connected, from local sedimentological investigations and empirically derived reconstructions, to regional ice-sheet simulations from a high-resolution numerical model. Previous geological mapping in western Scotland resulted in contradictory views of the thickness and extent of ice during the Younger Dryas, consequently leading to uncertainty about the dynamics of the former ice cap. By using a ‘landsystem’ method to characterise the terrain, it is argued here that geological evidence in the study area implies a relatively thick central ice cap that fed steep outlet glaciers around its margins. These glaciers oscillated throughout the stadial, and during deglaciation produced suites of moraines that marked successive positions of glacier retreat. Widespread preservation of superimposed landforms, and of sediment sequences pre-dating the Younger Dryas, suggest that, despite being active, the Younger Dryas ice cap was not particularly erosive in its central area and only subtly modified its bed. These geological interpretations are supported by high-resolution numerical modelling of the ice cap, which reveals clear spatial variability in the velocity structure, thermal regime, and flow mechanism of the ice cap; patterns that led to local contrasts in basal processes and diversity in the geological imprint. These model experiments also highlight the non-linear relationship between climate forcing and glacier response, identifying evidence of ice sheet hysteresis and climatically decoupled glacier oscillations – concepts as relevant to geological investigations of former ice masses as they are to the prediction of glacier response under future climate changes.

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Beghin, Pauline. "Interactions entre les calottes polaires et la circulation atmosphérique pendant les âges glaciaires". Thesis, Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015VERS003V/document.

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La dernière période glaciaire est marquée par la présence de deux grandes calottes boréales recouvrant l’actuel Canada et le nord de l’Eurasie. Ces calottes constituent un élément actif du système climatique en interagissant avec les différentes composantes du système Terre. L’objectif de cette thèse est de déterminer par quels mécanismes les changements de circulation atmosphérique lors du dernier cycle glaciaire induisent potentiellement une téléconnexion entre les paléo-calottes de l’hémisphère nord. L’utilisation d’un modèle couplé climat-calotte simplifié m’a permis de tester séparément l’influence de la topographie et de l’albédo des calottes sur les champs de température et de précipitation lors du dernier cycle glaciaire, et de mettre en évidence le rôle de la circulation atmosphérique dans la synergie entre les paléo-calottes de l’hémisphère nord. Pour étudier plus en détail les mécanismes de cette interaction, l’utilisation d’un modèle de circulation générale s’est avérée nécessaire. J’ai tout d’abord effectué une inter-comparaison des modèles ayant participé à l’exercice PMIP3 pour le dernier maximum glaciaire (DMG). Cette inter-comparaison a permis d’illustrer l’impact des conditions glaciaires sur le décalage du courant-jet en Atlantique Nord et d’établir un lien entre ce décalage et les précipitations au sud de l’Europe. Enfin, à l’aide d’expériences idéalisées menées avec le modèle atmosphérique LMDZ, j’ai pu étudier le rôle de chacune des calottes dans les changements de circulation atmosphérique observés auDMG. Cette étude montre en particulier l’influence notable de la calotte nord-américaine sur le bilan de masse de surface de la calotte eurasienne
The last glacial period is characterized by the presence of two large ice sheets covering Canada and North Eurasia. These ice sheets are a key element of the climatic system by interacting with all the components of the Earth system. The aim of this thesis is to determine by which mechanisms changes in atmospheric circulation may have induced a teleconnexionbetween the Northern hemisphere paleo-ice sheets. The use of a simplified coupled climate-ice sheet model allowed to test separately the influence of the ice-sheet topography and albedo on temperature and precipitation fields throughout the last glacial cycle and to highlight the role of atmospheric circulation within the synergy of past boreal ice sheets.To investigate in more details the underlying mechanisms, the use of a general circulation model was necessary.I therefore carried out an inter-comparisonof the PMIP3 models to examine the GCM responsesto glacial conditions. This work allowed to determinethe role of glacial conditions on the shift of the NorthAtlantic jet stream position and to establish a relationshipbetween this shift and the amount of precipitationover southern Europe. The last part of this thesisis devoted to the respective role of each ice sheeton atmospheric circulation changes observed underglacial conditions. To achieve this, I performed idealizedexperiments with the atmospheric circulationmodel LMDZ. The results highlight the key influenceof the North American ice sheet on the Eurasian icesheet surface mass balance

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Kenzler, Michael [Verfasser]. "Ice-sheet dynamics and climate fluctuations during the Weichselian glaciation along the southwestern Baltic Sea coast / Michael Kenzler". Greifswald : Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1136983570/34.

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Matero, Ilkka Seppo Olavi. "Modelling the early-Holocene Laurentide Ice Sheet collapse and abrupt climate change : implications for the 8.2 ka event". Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22575/.

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Recent research suggested that the deglaciation of an ice saddle connecting three ice domes around Hudson Bay ˜8.5 ka produced a large meltwater pulse. The resulting freshwater input to the North Atlantic was proposed as having caused the most pronounced climate change event of the Holocene, the 8.2 ka event. However, modelling experiments focussing on this saddle collapse meltwater and its climatic impact have not yet been carried out. This thesis aims to establish whether such a meltwater pulse could have forced the 8.2 ka event, and if so, to better constrain the pulse through climate and ice sheet modelling. A series of HadCM3 general circulation model -simulations was performed using idealised freshwater forcing scenarios designed to represent the centennial-length saddle collapse meltwater flux. The simulations demonstrated that the saddle collapse meltwaterwas likely the primary cause of the 8.2 ka event. An appropriate model setup for simulating early-Holocene Laurentide Ice Sheet evolution was then developed using the BISICLES ice sheet model, and an ensemble of simulations of the period 10-7.5 ka was run. An ice saddle collapse is simulated as part of the deglaciation, and the resulting meltwater pulse is in agreement with the timing of North Atlantic surface freshening signals, but is longer and less pronounced than the forcing used in the HadCM3 scenarios that best matched the climate-proxy data. The findings suggest that the BISICLES model setup simulates a dynamically realistic meltwater pulse, but there is a mismatch between the simulated pulse and the forcing necessary for reproducing the 8.2 ka event with HadCM3. Future work should further develop the BISICLES model setup as outlined in the thesis in order to refine the constraints of the meltwater pulse. This could allow for using the 8.2 ka event for assessing the sensitivity of general circulation models to ocean circulation perturbations.

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Barton, Benjamin I. "Climate change in the Barents Sea : ice-ocean interactions, water mass formation and variability". Thesis, Brest, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BRES0053.

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L’étendue hivernale de la banquise en mer de Barents n’a cessé de diminuer, et un certain nombre d’études suggèrent que cette diminution pourrait coïncider avec des hivers très froids en Europe et Asie. L’eau Atlantique (AW) transportée vers la mer de Barents, se réchauffe. En mer de Barents, l’AW se transforme en Barents Sea Water (BSW), plus froide et moins salée. Etudier cette dernière nous permet d’en savoir plus sur l’influence de la saisonnalité de la banquise Arctique sur la stratification et la circulation de l’océan.Tout d’abord, nous utilisons des observations satellites pour localiser le Front Polaire (PF) qui matérialise la limite entre la BSW et l’eau Arctique. Nous établissons que l’étendue de la banquise était indépendante du PF jusqu’au milieu des années 2000, jusqu’à ce que le réchauffement de l’AW commence à limiter l’extension de la banquise hivernale au sud du front. Ensuite, en combinant données satellites et in situ, nous montrons que l’on peut surveiller ‘à distance’ les propriétés de la BSW : les variations de la température de surface de l’océan sont ainsi corrélées à celles du contenu en chaleur de la mer de Barents qui, associées à celles de la hauteur stérique, permettent également d’estimer son contenu en eau douce.Pour finir, nous utilisons un modèle à haute résolution pour calculer les bilans de volume, transport et flux des masses d’eau. Le volume de la BSW atteint un minimum en 1990 et 2004 : l’étendue de glace de mer hivernale ayant fondue l’été suivant était alors conséquente, résultant notamment d’une masse d’AW plus froide. L’événement de 2004 a permis une entrée massive d’AW, de plus en plus chaude, dans la mer de Barents
Winter sea ice has declined in the Barents Sea and there is growing evidence that the low sea ice here coincides with cold, winter surface air temperature in Europe and Asia. Atlantic Water (AW) transported into the Barents Sea is warming and its temperature variability is correlated with variability in sea ice extent. As AW extends into the Barents Sea it is modified into a cooler, fresher water mass called BarentsSea Water (BSW). There are limited observations of BSW despite its importance in the Arctic Ocean system, leading to the question, how does the seasonal sea ice impact ocean stratification and mean flow?First, satellite observations are used to find the Polar Front, a water mass boundary between BSW and fresher Arctic Water to the north. The sea ice extent was found to be independent of the Polar Front until the mid-2000s when warming AW prevented the extension of winter sea ice south of the front.Second, by combining satellite and in situ data, it is shown that sea surface temperature can approximate heat content in the Barents Sea. Using heat content with satellite steric height, freshwater content can also be estimated, showing the potential for remote monitoring of BSW properties.Third, a high-resolution model is used to calculate the volume, transport and flux budgets within the AW and BSW domain south of the Polar Front. The model shows BSW volume minimum years in 1990 and2004. Both events were preceded by extensive winter sea ice and substantial summer sea ice melt, a result of preceding, cool AW. The event in 2004 was more extreme and allowed warming AW a greater volume in the Barents Sea

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Colleoni, Florence. "On the Late Saalian glaciation : A climate modeling study". Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för geologi och geokemi, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-29284.

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This thesis focuses on the glaciation of the Late Saalian period (160 -140 ka) over Eurasia. The Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North (QUEEN) project determined that during this period, the Eurasian ice sheet was substantially larger than during the entire Weichselian cycle and especially that of the Last Glacial Maximum (21 ka, LGM). The Late Saalian astronomical forcing was different than during the LGM while greenhouse gas concentrations were similar. To understand how this ice sheet could have grown so large over Eurasia during the Late Saalian, we use an Atmospherical General Circulation Model (AGCM) coupled to an oceanic mixed layer and a vegetation model to explore the influence of regional parameters, sea surface temperatures (SST) and orbital parameters on the surface mass balance (SMB) of the Late Saalian Eurasian ice sheet. At140 ka, proglacial lakes, vegetation and simulated Late Saalian SST cool the Eurasian climate, which reduce the ablation along the southern ice sheet margins. Dust deposition on snow has the opposite effect. The presence of a Canada Basin ice-shelf during MIS6 in the Arctic Ocean, does not affect the mass balance of the ice sheet. According to geological evidence, the Late Saalian Eurasian ice sheet reached its maximum extent before 160 ka. Northern Hemisphere high latitude summer insolation shows a large insolation peak near 150 ka. The simulated climate prior to 140 ka is milder and ablation is larger along the southern margins of the Eurasian ice sheet although the mean annual SMB is positive. The Late Saalian Eurasian ice sheet may have been large enough to generate its own cooling, thus maintaining itself over Eurasia.
Joint PhD Degree between Stockholm University and Université Joseph FourierAt the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Submitted. Paper 4: Submitted. Paper 5: Manuscript.

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Lindbäck, Katrin. "Hydrology and Bed Topography of the Greenland Ice Sheet : Last known surroundings". Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Luft-, vatten och landskapslära, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-259076.

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The increased temperatures in the Arctic accelerate the loss of land based ice stored in glaciers. The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere and holds ~10% of all the freshwater on Earth, equivalent to ~7 metres of global sea level rise. A few decades ago, the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet was poorly known and assumed to have little impact on global sea level rise. The development of regional climate models and remote sensing of the ice sheet during the past decade have revealed a significant mass loss. To monitor how the Greenland Ice Sheet will affect sea levels in the future requires understanding the physical processes that govern its mass balance and movement. In the southeastern and central western regions, mass loss is dominated by the dynamic behaviour of ice streams calving into the ocean. Changes in surface mass balance dominate mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet in the central northern, southwestern and northeastern regions. Little is known about what the hydrological system looks like beneath the ice sheet; how well the hydrological system is developed decides the water’s impact on ice movement. In this thesis, I have focused on radar sounding measurements to map the subglacial topography in detail for a land-terminating section of the western Greenland Ice Sheet. This knowledge is a critical prerequisite for any subglacial hydrological modelling. Using the high-resolution ice thickness and bed topography data, I have made the following specific studies: First, I have analysed the geological setting and glaciological history of the region by comparing proglacial and subglacial spectral roughness. Second, I have analysed the subglacial water drainage routing and revealed a potential for subglacial water piracy between adjacent subglacial water catchments with changes in the subglacial water pressure regime. Finally, I have looked in more detail into englacial features that are commonly observed in radar sounding data from western Greenland. In all, the thesis highlights the need not only for accurate high-resolution subglacial digital elevation models, but also for regionally optimised interpolation when conducting detailed hydrological studies of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
De ökade temperaturerna i Arktis påskyndar förlusten av landbaserad is lagrad i glaciärer och permafrost. Grönlands inlandsis är den största ismassan på norra halvklotet och lagrar ca 10% av allt sötvatten på jorden, vilket motsvarar ca 7 meter global havsnivåhöjning. För ett par decennier sedan var inlandsisens massbalans dåligt känd och antogs ha liten inverkan på dagens havsnivåhöjning. Utvecklingen av regionala klimatmodeller och satellitbaserad fjärranalys av inlandsisen har under de senaste decenniet påvisat en betydande massförlust. För att förutse vilken inverkan inlandsisen har på framtida havsnivåhöjningar krävs en förståelse för de fysikaliska processerna som styr dess massbalans och isrörelse. I de sydöstra och centrala västra delarna av inlandsisen domineras massförlusten av dynamiska processer i isströmmar som kalvar ut i havet. Massförlusten i de centrala norra, sydvästra och nordöstra delarna domineras av isytans massbalans. Ytterst lite är känt om hur det hydrologiska systemet ser ut under inlandsisen; hur väl det hydrologiska systemet är utvecklat avgör vattnets påverkan på isrörelsen. I denna doktorsavhandling har jag använt markbaserade radarmätningar för att kartlägga den subglaciala topografin för en del av den västra landbaserade inlandsisen. Denna kunskap är en viktig förutsättning för att kunna modellera den subglaciala hydrologin. Med hjälp av rumsligt högupplöst data över istjockleken och bottentopografin har jag gjort följande specifika studier: Först har jag analyserat de geologiska och glaciologiska förhållandena i regionen genom att jämföra proglacial och subglacial spektralanalys av terrängens ytojämnheter. Sedan har jag analyserat den subglaciala vattenavrinningen och påvisat en potential för att avrinningsområdena kan ändras beroende på vattentryckförhållandena på botten. Slutligen har jag tittat mer i detalj på englaciala radarstrukturer som ofta observerats i radardata från västra Grönland. Sammanfattningsvis belyser avhandlingen behovet av inte bara noggranna rumsligt högupplösta subglaciala digitala höjdmodeller, utan även regionalt optimerad interpolering när detaljerade hydrologiska studier ska utföras på Grönlands inlandsis.

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Beghin, Pauline. "Interactions entre les calottes polaires et la circulation atmosphérique pendant les âges glaciaires". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015VERS003V.

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La dernière période glaciaire est marquée par la présence de deux grandes calottes boréales recouvrant l’actuel Canada et le nord de l’Eurasie. Ces calottes constituent un élément actif du système climatique en interagissant avec les différentes composantes du système Terre. L’objectif de cette thèse est de déterminer par quels mécanismes les changements de circulation atmosphérique lors du dernier cycle glaciaire induisent potentiellement une téléconnexion entre les paléo-calottes de l’hémisphère nord. L’utilisation d’un modèle couplé climat-calotte simplifié m’a permis de tester séparément l’influence de la topographie et de l’albédo des calottes sur les champs de température et de précipitation lors du dernier cycle glaciaire, et de mettre en évidence le rôle de la circulation atmosphérique dans la synergie entre les paléo-calottes de l’hémisphère nord. Pour étudier plus en détail les mécanismes de cette interaction, l’utilisation d’un modèle de circulation générale s’est avérée nécessaire. J’ai tout d’abord effectué une inter-comparaison des modèles ayant participé à l’exercice PMIP3 pour le dernier maximum glaciaire (DMG). Cette inter-comparaison a permis d’illustrer l’impact des conditions glaciaires sur le décalage du courant-jet en Atlantique Nord et d’établir un lien entre ce décalage et les précipitations au sud de l’Europe. Enfin, à l’aide d’expériences idéalisées menées avec le modèle atmosphérique LMDZ, j’ai pu étudier le rôle de chacune des calottes dans les changements de circulation atmosphérique observés auDMG. Cette étude montre en particulier l’influence notable de la calotte nord-américaine sur le bilan de masse de surface de la calotte eurasienne
The last glacial period is characterized by the presence of two large ice sheets covering Canada and North Eurasia. These ice sheets are a key element of the climatic system by interacting with all the components of the Earth system. The aim of this thesis is to determine by which mechanisms changes in atmospheric circulation may have induced a teleconnexionbetween the Northern hemisphere paleo-ice sheets. The use of a simplified coupled climate-ice sheet model allowed to test separately the influence of the ice-sheet topography and albedo on temperature and precipitation fields throughout the last glacial cycle and to highlight the role of atmospheric circulation within the synergy of past boreal ice sheets.To investigate in more details the underlying mechanisms, the use of a general circulation model was necessary.I therefore carried out an inter-comparisonof the PMIP3 models to examine the GCM responsesto glacial conditions. This work allowed to determinethe role of glacial conditions on the shift of the NorthAtlantic jet stream position and to establish a relationshipbetween this shift and the amount of precipitationover southern Europe. The last part of this thesisis devoted to the respective role of each ice sheeton atmospheric circulation changes observed underglacial conditions. To achieve this, I performed idealizedexperiments with the atmospheric circulationmodel LMDZ. The results highlight the key influenceof the North American ice sheet on the Eurasian icesheet surface mass balance

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Königk, Torben. "Sea ice export through Fram Strait : variability and interactions with climate = Meereisexport durch die Framstraße /". Hamburg : Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, 2005. http://mpimet.mpg.de/de/web/download.php?src=max_erdsystem&file=pdfupload&id=19&filename=WEB_BzE_12.pdf.

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Fettweis, Xavier. "Reconstruction of the 1979-2005 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using satellite data and the regional climate model MAR". Université catholique de Louvain, 2006. http://edoc.bib.ucl.ac.be:81/ETD-db/collection/available/BelnUcetd-08162006-183525/.

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In order to improve our knowledge on the current state and variability of the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (SMB), a 27-year simulation (1979-2005) has been performed with the coupled atmosphere-snow regional model MAR. This simulation reveals an increase in the main factors of the SMB which are, on the one hand, the snowfall (+ 1.6 ± 1.8 km3 yr-1) in winter and on the other hand, the run-off (+ 4.2 ± 1.9 km3 yr-1) in summer. The net effect of these two competing factors leads to a SMB loss rate of – 2.7 ± 3.0 km3 yr-1, which has a significance of 87%. The melt extent derived from the passive microwave satellite data since 1979 also shows this trend. The melt water supply has increased because the Greenland ice sheet has been warming up by + 0.09 ± 0.04 °C yr-1 since 1979. This warming comes from a uniform increase of downward infra-red radiation which can not be explained by the natural variability. These changes result very likely from the global warming induced by human activities. As a result, it seems that: i) increased melting dominates over increased accumulation in a warming scenario, ii) the Greenland ice sheet has been significantly losing mass since the beginning of the 1980's by an increasing melt water run-off as well as by a probable increase of iceberg discharge into the ocean due to the "Zwally effect" (the melt water-induced ice sheet flow acceleration) and iii) the Greenland ice sheet is projected to continue to lose mass in the future. The Greenland ice sheet melting could have an effect on the stability of the thermohaline circulation (THC) and the global sea level rise. On the one hand, increases in the freshwater flux from the Greenland ice sheet (glacier discharge and run-off) could perturb the THC by reducing the density contrast driving it. On the other hand, the melting of the whole Greenland ice sheet would account for a global mean sea level rise of 7.4 m.

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Williams, Clare Carlisle. "A Multi-Proxy Approach to Understanding Abrupt Climate Change and Laurentide Ice Sheet Melting History Based on Gulf of Mexico Sediments". Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5332.

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During the last deglaciation (ca. 24-10 ka thousand years ago (ka)), the North American Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) was a major source of meltwater to the Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), and it is hypothesized that meltwater routing played an important role in regulating Late Quaternary millennial-scale climate variability, via its influence on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). For example, the meltwater routing hypothesis predicts that a rerouting of meltwater from the GOM to the North Atlantic and/or Arctic Oceans resulted in a decrease of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation and subsequent cooling in the northern North Atlantic region, at the onset of the Younger Dryas (ca. 13 ka). The GOM was an important outlet for meltwater that likely originated from the southern margin of the LIS. Northern GOM sediments document episodic LIS meltwater input via the Mississippi River throughout the last deglaciation, and further study may provide insight to the evolution of LIS deglaciation and the hydrological response of meltwater flux to the marine depositional environment of GOM. Here, a multi-proxy geochemical study, based on marine sediments from Orca Basin, in northern GOM, aims to 1) reconstruct high-resolution records of deglacial (ca. 24-10 ka) LIS melting history to assess linkage between meltwater input to the GOM and deglacial climate change; 2) investigate the relationship between marine-based records of meltwater input and terrestrial evidence for continental deglaciation to reconstruct LIS drainage patterns within the Mississippi River watershed; and 3) reconstruct the redox state of Orca Basin sediments to evaluate the potential role of turbidity flows as a means of meltwater transport into the northern GOM. All data for this study is from core MD02-2550, a 9.09 m long giant box core, recovered from 2248 m water depth from the Orca Basin, approximately 300 km southwest of the modern Mississippi River delta. High sedimentation rates (45 cm/thousand years (kyr)) and 0.5 to 2 cm sampling resolution allow for sub-centennial sampling resolution. An anoxic hypersaline brine lake currently occupies the bottom 200 m of Orca Basin; yet, visible laminations and color changes that suggest episodic suboxic to anoxic sedimentary conditions during deglaciation, possibly related to LIS meltwater input and/or local biologic productivity. In chapter one, paired d18O and Mg/Ca-sea-surface temperature (SST) analyses on two varieties of the surface-dwelling planktic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber (G. ruber; (white and pink, separately)) are used to reconstruct deglacial changes in GOM seawater d18O (d18Osw). Once corrected for global ice volume, the ice volume-corrected d18Osw (d18Oivc-sw) record is primarily influenced by LIS meltwater. d18Oivc-sw records document negative excursions at ca. 19-18.2, 17.5-16.2, 15.3-14.8, and 13.7-13 ka, interpreted as four LIS melting events, followed by the cessation of meltwater at the onset of the Younger Dryas (12.9 ka). Additionally, LIS melting at ca. 17.5 ka suggests that enhanced seasonality in the North Atlantic produced mild summers sufficient for ice sheet retreat during the Mystery Interval (17.5-14.5 ka) despite extremely cold winters. Because of the inherent difficulties in quantifying meltwater flux using d18Oivc-sw data, foraminiferal (G. ruber) Ba/Ca data are generated in chapter two to assess the influence of LIS meltwater on GOM salinity (a function of meltwater flux) during deglaciation. Ba concentrations in the Mississippi River are elevated relative to GOM seawater and are negatively correlated to sea-surface salinity. Because foraminiferal Ba/Ca (Ba/Caforam) exhibits a predictable relationship to the Ba/Ca of seawater (Ba/Casw), it may be used to calculate changes in salinity arising from deglacial variations in Mississippi River discharge. A complicating factor for Ba/Ca-based salinity interpretations is that Ba concentrations vary spatially throughout the Mississippi River watershed. For example, modern Missouri and Upper Mississippi River Ba concentrations (633 and 436 nM, respectively) are higher than that of the Ohio River (253 nM). Thus, GOM Ba/Ca variability could reflect changes in total Mississippi River input and/or shifts in the dominant region of LIS melting. Applying the modern spatial variability of Ba, we can gain insights into the pattern of ice retreat along the southern margin of the LIS during the last deglaciation. d18Oivc-sw and Ba/Ca results suggest that meltwater, originating from the Great Lakes region, entered the GOM at ca. 19.0 ka and may have contributed to global sea level rise. A melting event at ca. 17.5 ka coincided with Lake Erie Lobe retreat and may have preconditioned the North Atlantic for AMOC instability during the Mystery Interval (ca. 17.5-14.5 ka). Elevated GOM Ba/Ca (ca. 15.6 to 14.0 ka) suggests greater meltwater input from the Ba-rich Missouri and Upper Mississippi River watershed during the second half of the Mystery Interval (ca. 16.1-14.5 ka), when wet climate conditions prevailed in the southwestern United States and Central America. Overall, Ba/Ca and d18Oivc-sw data suggest large variations in the delivery of meltwater to the Mississippi River and GOM during the last deglaciation. In chapter three, a suite of redox sensitive trace metals (Mo, Re, U, Mn) from bulk sediment samples are analyzed to reconstruct the redox state of Orca Basin sediments, from the Last Glacial Maximum through the early Holocene (24-7 ka). Variations in the redox state of Orca Basin sediments during deglaciation may be due to changes in local biologic productivity, sediment transport, and/or regional/global physical oceanography. Laminated sediments enriched with authigenic Mo, Re, and U, suggest suboxic to anoxic conditions coincident with high total organic carbon fluxes and LIS meltwater input at ~17.0 ka. Low authigenic trace element concentrations, high quantities of terrigenous material, and abundant Cretaceous-age nannofossils in a 19-cm homogenous interval indicate a turbidite in Orca Basin at ca. 14.4 ka. This stratigraphic unit correlates with evidence from Pigmy Basin, and the Louisiana Shelf, suggesting increased meltwater flux may reflect LIS contribution to Meltwater pulse 1a (MWP-1a) sea level rise. Trace element records coupled with analyses of Orca Basin sedimentary structures will likely improve understanding of deglacial water column stratification, how meltwater entered the GOM (i.e. as a buoyant cap or at depth via sediment-laden hyperpycnal plumes), and the affects of glacial meltwater on marine biologic productivity.

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Merino, Nacho. "Interactions calotte polaire/océan : vers la mise en place d'une modélisation couplée". Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAU051/document.

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Les prochaines modèles climatiques comprendront un modèle de calotte polaire afin de tenir en compte la dynamique de la glace et les interactions glace-océans dans ses projections. D'une part, l'océan Austral (SO) pilote l'accélération des glaciers de l'Antarctique via une augmentation de la fonte basale des ice shelves. D'autre part, l'accélération de la décharge de glace de l'Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) contribue à la montée du niveau de la mer et est susceptible de devenir le plus grand contributeur de la cryosphère d'ici la fin du siècle. En outre, l'adoucissement relié, peut avoir des répercussions importantes sur la glace de mer et sur la formation des eaux profondes. Cependant, on ne sait pas encore comment les modèles d'océan et de calotte polaire des futurs systèmes couplés vont représenter les interactions glace-océan, causes et conséquences du déséquilibre de masse de AIS. Ici, dans ce travail, les différents aspects des modèles de océan et calotte polaire ont été étudiés. Une première étape de cette thèse a été concentrée à la représentation des flux d'eau douce glaciaires dans les modèles océaniques actuels. Basé dans estimations glaciologiques, la fonte basal des ice shelves a été répartie dans une grille de ORCA025, et les taux de production d'icebergs ont été appliqués dans une version améliorée du modèle d'iceberg NEMO-ICB. Cette étude préliminaire a été utilisé pour produire une climatologie d'eau de fonte provenant des icebergs, valable pour forcer les modèles de océan actuels. Ce travail montre l'importance de représenter les flux d'eau de fonte des icebergs lors de la modélisation de la glace de mer, qui peut être obtenu en utilisant notre climatologie. Ces améliorations ont été pris en compte dans l'étude de la réponse du modèle de océan a la perte de masse de AIS. Cette étude considère une perturbation réaliste de l'eau douce glaciaire aussi près que possible de sa représentation dans les futurs modèles couplés ice-sheet/océan. Selon nos résultats, jusqu'à 50% des changements récents de volume de la glace de mer pourrait être causée par le bilan masse de l'AIS. Le forçage en eau douce glaciaire semble être cruciale pour représenter correctement les interactions glace-océan et projeter la glace de mer dans les futurs systèmes couplés. Cependant, l'estimation de l'apport d'eau douce glaciaire dans les modèles climatiques futurs sera fortement affecté par la capacité des modèles de calotte polaire de reproduire les migrations de grounding line des glacières de "marine ice sheets". Les modèles de calotte polaire actuels présentent grandes incertitudes liées aux différents réglages. Dans le contexte des futurs modèles climatiques, nous avons étudié la sensibilité des retraites de la grounding line produites par l'océan à l'application de deux lois de frottement différentes et deux différentes approximations du stress glacier. Les modèle réagit de façon presque similaire aux approximations SSA ou SSA *. Par contre, les différences dans la contribution du glacier à l'élévation du niveau de la mer peuvent être jusqu'à 50% en fonction de la loi de frottement considéré. La loi de friction Schoof, la plus physique, est nettement plus réactif aux perturbations océaniques que la loi Weertman, et devrait être pris en compte dans les systèmes couplés futurs. Ce travail souligne que les incertitudes liées aux estimations des modèles de la calotte glaciaire de migrations de grounding line peuvent contribuer non seulement à des incertitudes du futur niveau de la mer, mais aussi de la glace de mer à travers des interactions glace-océan dans les futures models climatiques. Tel conclusion suggère la nécessité d'améliorer la représentation de la fonte basal des ice shelves et le frottement du glacier, afin d'améliorer les projections climatiques des modèles climatiques, dans lequel la distribution spatiale et saisonnière des eau douce glaciaires peut jouer un rôle important en établir la glace de mer
The next generation of climate models will include an ice-sheet model in order to improve the ice sheet mass balance projections by accounting for the ice dynamics and ice-oceans interactions. On the one hand, the Southern Ocean (SO) is indeed driving the acceleration of the Antarctic outlet glaciers via an increase in the basal melting of the ice shelves. On the other hand, the increasing ice discharge from Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) contributes to the current sea level rise and is likely to become the largest cryospheric contributor to sea level rise by the end of the current century. In addition, the related freshening may have significant implications on future sea-ice cover and on bottom water formation. However, it is not clear yet how the ocean and ice-sheet components of future coupled systems will account for the ice-ocean interactions, which are both causes and consequences of the AIS mass imbalance. Here in this work, different aspects of the standalone ocean and ice-sheet components have been investigated. A first step of this thesis has been focused in the representation of the glacial freshwater fluxes in current ocean models. Based on recent glaciological estimates, the ice shelf basal melting fluxes have been spatially distributed in an ORCA025 grid, and the calving rates have been applied into an improved version of the NEMO-ICB iceberg model. This preliminary study has been used to produce a monthly iceberg meltwater climatology, to be used to force current ocean models. This work shows the importance of representing the iceberg meltwater fluxes when modeling sea ice, which can be inexpensively achieve by using our climatology. The improvements in the representation of the glacial freshwater fluxes have been considered in the study of the ocean model response to the Antarctic mass imbalance. This study considers a realistic perturbation in the glacial freshwater forcing as close as possible as it will be represented in future ice-sheet/ocean models. According to our results, up to 50% of the recent Antarctic sea ice volume changes might be caused by the observed decadal AIS mass imbalance rate. Glacial freshwater forcing appears to be crucial to correctly represent the ice-ocean interactions and projecting sea ice cover of future coupled systems. However, the estimation of the glacial freshwater input in future climate models will be strongly dependent upon the capacity of ice-sheet models to reproduce the grounding line migrations of marine ice sheet glaciers. Current ice-sheet models present large uncertainties related to different parametrizations. In the context of the future climate models, we have studied the sensitivity of ocean-driven grounding line retreats to the application of two different friction laws and two different englacial stress approximations. The model responses almost indistinctively to either the SSA or the SSA* englacial stress approximations. However, differences in the contribution of the glacier to the sea level rise can be up to 50% depending on the friction law considered. The more physically constrained Schoof friction law is significantly more reactive to the ocean perturbations than Weertman law and should be considered in future coupled systems. This work underlines that uncertainties related to the ice sheet model estimates of grounding line migrations may not only contribute to uncertainties in sea level projections, but also the sea ice cover through the ice-ocean interaction in future ocean models.This conclusion suggests the need for improving the representation of both the ice shelf basal melting and the glacier interaction with the bedrock, in order to improve the climate projections of future climate models, in which the spatial and seasonal distribution of the glacial freshwater fluxes may play an important role in setting the sea ice cover

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Passchier, Sandra. "Sedimentology, mineralogy and geochemistry of the sirius group and other cenozoic glacigenic sediments from Antarctica : implications for climate and ice sheet history /". The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488203857248356.

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Sommers, A. N. "Insights into Processes Affecting Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics in a Changing Climate| Firn Permeability, Interior Thermal State, Subglacial Hydrology, and Heat Transfer Coefficients". Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10846976.

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Accurate projections of future sea level rise require detailed modeling of the relevant processes affecting glacier and ice sheet dynamics. Although sophisticated high-resolution ice sheet models have been developed in recent years, some processes are still not well understood. Through a combination of field experiments, numerical modeling, and theoretical analyses, this research explores several processes affecting dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet, particularly in a changing climate as melt increases further inland: a) A novel, low-cost in-situ method of inferring firn permeability is presented, which is especially useful in regions of the ice sheet experiencing increased melt and refrozen solid ice layers in the firn. b) Thermo-mechanically coupled flow line modeling of the Greenland ice sheet interior reveals insights about the distribution of temperate ice and sensitivity to different modeling parameters. c) A subglacial hydrology model is introduced (SHAKTI: Subglacial Hydrology and Kinetic, Transient Interactions) that allows for the coexistence of laminar and turbulent flow regimes and flexible geometry configurations that include both sheetlike and channelized drainage systems, while including melt from viscous dissipation. Application of the SHAKTI model to marine-terminating Store Glacier in west Greenland suggests a channelized system develops near the terminus with high meltwater input and collapses to a sheetlike system with low input, with some residual channel structure extending inland from the front. d) Heat transfer coefficients are obtained through modeling of internal viscous and turbulent dissipation (appropriate for subglacial and englacial hydrology) compared to the case of heated walls (the classical experimental case upon which most heat transfer coefficients are based). A difference of about a factor of two is found between the heat transfer coefficients for heated walls and the internal dissipation case.

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Nicolas, Julien Pierre. "Atmospheric Change in Antarctica since the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year". The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397747086.

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Bogren, Fredrik. "Evidence for birch forests and a highly productive environment near the margin of the Fennoscandian ice sheet in the Värriötunturit area, northeastern Finland". Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-170716.

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High-resolution records of early Holocene deposits are rare, and as a consequence reconstruction of terrestrial environments very soon after the deglaciation has often been difficult. In this study the palaeoenvironmental conditions of early Holocene (c. 10600-7500 cal. yr BP) are reconstructed in the Värriötunturit area of northeastern Finland, using evidence from plant macrofossils and pollen preserved in a lake sediment sequence retrieved from the small lake Kuutsjärvi. Special emphasis is put on the environment immediately following the deglaciation as the base of the sediment sequence is rich in minerogenic material interpreted to have been deposited by meltwater pulses from the retreating ice sheet. The abundance and variety of fossil remains in these early meltwater deposits provide evidence for a very productive ice-marginal environment in the area between the lake and the ice sheet, and the presence of tree-type Betula macro remains as well as high percentage values of tree-type Betula pollen suggests that a subarctic birch forest established just a few years after the deglaciation. In the following centuries the birch forest around the lake became rich in an under growth of ferns, and at c. 9400 cal. yr BP a transition into a mixed pine and birch forest took place. Due to absence of indicator plant taxa in the sediment it was not possible to reconstruct temperature conditions for any parts of the sequence in this study. However, the rapid colonisation of birch forests suggests that the climate was warm already during deglaciation, which is also in accordance with climatic conditions reconstructed for the early Holocene in the nearby Sokli area just 10 km away, as well as in other parts of Fennoscandia and Russia.

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Barahona, Donifan. "On the representation of aerosol-cloud interactions in atmospheric models". Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/41169.

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Anthropogenic atmospheric aerosols (suspended particulate matter) can modify the radiative balance (and climate) of the Earth by altering the properties and global distribution of clouds. Current climate models however cannot adequately account for many important aspects of these aerosol-cloud interactions, ultimately leading to a large uncertainty in the estimation of the magnitude of the effect of aerosols on climate. This thesis focuses on the development of physically-based descriptions of aerosol-cloud processes in climate models that help to address some of such predictive uncertainty. It includes the formulation of a new analytical parameterization for the formation of ice clouds, and the inclusion of the effects of mixing and kinetic limitations in existing liquid cloud parameterizations. The parameterizations are analytical solutions to the cloud ice and water particle nucleation problem, developed within a framework that considers the mass and energy balances associated with the freezing and droplet activation of aerosol particles. The new frameworks explicitly account for the impact of cloud formation dynamics, the aerosol size and composition, and the dominant freezing mechanism (homogeneous vs. heterogeneous) on the ice crystal and droplet concentration and size distribution. Application of the new parameterizations is demonstrated in the NASA Global Modeling Initiative atmospheric and chemical and transport model to study the effect of aerosol emissions on the global distribution of ice crystal concentration, and, the effect of entrainment during cloud droplet activation on the global cloud radiative properties. The ice cloud formation framework is also used within a parcel ensemble model to understand the microphysical structure of cirrus clouds at very low temperature. The frameworks developed in this work provide an efficient, yet rigorous, representation of cloud formation processes from precursor aerosol. They are suitable for the study of the effect of anthropogenic aerosol emissions on cloud formation, and can contribute to the improvement of the predictive ability of atmospheric models and to the understanding of the impact of human activities on climate.

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