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Role of the Bering Strait on the hysteresis of the ocean conveyor belt circulation and glacial climate stability.


ABSTRACT: Abrupt climate transitions, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events, occurred frequently during the last glacial period, specifically from 80-11 thousand years before present, but were nearly absent during interglacial periods and the early stages of glacial periods, when major ice-sheets were still forming. Here we show, with a fully coupled state-of-the-art climate model, that closing the Bering Strait and preventing its throughflow between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans during the glacial period can lead to the emergence of stronger hysteresis behavior of the ocean conveyor belt circulation to create conditions that are conducive to triggering abrupt climate transitions. Hence, it is argued that even for greenhouse warming, abrupt climate transitions similar to those in the last glacial time are unlikely to occur as the Bering Strait remains open.

SUBMITTER: Hu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3340043 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Role of the Bering Strait on the hysteresis of the ocean conveyor belt circulation and glacial climate stability.

Hu Aixue A   Meehl Gerald A GA   Han Weiqing W   Timmermann Axel A   Otto-Bliesner Bette B   Liu Zhengyu Z   Washington Warren M WM   Large William W   Abe-Ouchi Ayako A   Kimoto Masahide M   Lambeck Kurt K   Wu Bingyi B  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120409 17


Abrupt climate transitions, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events, occurred frequently during the last glacial period, specifically from 80-11 thousand years before present, but were nearly absent during interglacial periods and the early stages of glacial periods, when major ice-sheets were still forming. Here we show, with a fully coupled state-of-the-art climate model, that closing the Bering Strait and preventing its throughflow between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans during the glac  ...[more]

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