The Younger Dryas-an intrinsic feature of late Pleistocene climate change at millennial timescales

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Jun 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004e%26psl.222..741s&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 222, Issue 3-4, p. 741-750.

Computer Science

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Deglaciation, Abrupt Climate Change, Deep-Decoupling Oscillation, Ice-Sheet Model

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A box model of the North Atlantic Ocean exhibits self-sustained oscillations of the large-scale ocean circulation, which are reminiscent of Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO)-style oscillations. The freshwater forcing of this ocean model depends on mean climate state, represented by global ice volume. This is computed by a one-dimensional ice-sheet model, subject to changes in high-latitude northern hemisphere summer insolation. At low/large ice volume, the ocean-ice system stays in a permanent interstadial/stadial mode. Millennial scale DO-style oscillations result at intermediate ice-volume values, which thus define a ``DO window''. During an interglacial-to-glacial transition, this DO window is crossed sufficiently slow to allow for sustained DO-style oscillations to develop. In contrast, during a glacial termination, the system moves relatively rapid through the DO window, resulting in an intermittent re-appearance of DO-style oscillations, which resemble the sequence of events surrounding the Younger Dryas (YD). When forced with modeled ice-volume evolution over the last 800 thousand years, our model predicts Younger-Dryas-type cooling events for each major glacial termination. Accordingly, the Younger Dryas does not appear to be a one-time event.
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