Dust-Induced Destabilization of Glacial Climates

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2009-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/0907.0442v1

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

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The climate record preserved in polar glaciers, mountain glaciers, and widespread cave deposits shows repeated occurrence of abrupt global transitions between cold/dry stadial and warm/wet interstadial states during glacial periods. These abrupt transitions occur on millennial time scale and in the absence of any known global-scale forcing. Here a theory is advanced implicating a feedback between atmospheric dust and the hydrological cycle in producing these abrupt transitions. Calculations are performed using a radiative-convective model that includes the interaction of aerosols with radiation to reveal the mechanism of the dust/precipitation interaction feedback process and a Langevin equation is used to model glacial climate destabilization by this mechanism. This theory explains the observed bimodal, stochastic, and abrupt nature of the transitions as well as their intrinsic connection with the hydrological cycle.

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