Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3802707t&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 2, CiteID L02707
Physics
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Global Change: Abrupt/Rapid Climate Change (4901, 8408), Cryosphere: Sea Ice (4540), Cryosphere: Energy Balance, Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean And Mixed Layer Processes, Atmospheric Processes: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4301, 4504)
Scientific paper
We examine the recovery of Arctic sea ice from prescribed ice-free summer conditions in simulations of 21st century climate in an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. We find that ice extent recovers typically within two years. The excess oceanic heat that had built up during the ice-free summer is rapidly returned to the atmosphere during the following autumn and winter, and then leaves the Arctic partly through increased longwave emission at the top of the atmosphere and partly through reduced atmospheric heat advection from lower latitudes. Oceanic heat transport does not contribute significantly to the loss of the excess heat. Our results suggest that anomalous loss of Arctic sea ice during a single summer is reversible, as the ice-albedo feedback is alleviated by large-scale recovery mechanisms. Hence, hysteretic threshold behavior (or a “tipping point”) is unlikely to occur during the decline of Arctic summer sea-ice cover in the 21st century.
Jungclaus Johann H.
Marotzke Johannes
Notz Dieter
Tietsche S.
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