Uncertainties in elevation changes and their impact on Antarctic temperature records since the end of the last glacial period

Details Uncertainties in elevation changes and their impact on Antarctic temperature records since the end of the last glacial period Uncertainties in elevation changes and their impact on Antarctic temperature records since the end of the last glacial period

Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012e%26psl.315...12s&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 315, p. 12-23.

Computer Science

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Ice Sheet, Antarctica, Isostasy, Ice Cores, Termination

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This study presents a sensitivity analysis considering the influence of elevation changes associated with both ice thickness and land height changes on water stable isotope temperature proxies from Antarctic ice cores. We compare results from three different ice sheet models and three different Earth viscosity models at a 10 ice core sites. As expected, the ice-thinning signal at West Antarctic sites is the largest contributor to elevation-induced temperature changes. The signal predicted by the ice models considered produced 100-200% of the total glacial to interglacial signal in δD, indicating that the deglacial ice thinning is overestimated by an amount approaching an order of magnitude at some locations. This indicates that the total volume loss in these models is considerably overestimated. Furthermore, the predicted rate of this change is not supported by the isotope data and so, again, most likely reflects inaccuracies in the adopted ice models. Estimates of contemporary ice mass changes inferred from satellite gravity data corrected using any of these models with therefore be biased as a result. The isostatic signal acts to reduce the total elevation change at most sites and has a relatively small magnitude (a few% to ~ 20% of that due to the ice thickness change) so is secondary at most sites and for most of the time. However, our results indicate that it could be the dominant control on elevation at some West Antarctic sites during the Holocene, resulting in a secular cooling signal of ~ 10-20‰ in δD. None of the models capture the Holocene isotopic depletion trend present at several sites in East Antarctica.

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