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    Holocene North Atlantic Overturning in an atmosphere-ocean-sea ice model compared to proxy-based reconstructions

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    2015-11-24
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    Blaschek, Michael  Concept link
    Renssen, Hans  Concept link
    Kissel, Catherine  Concept link
    Thornalley, David J. R.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7808
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    https://doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002828
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    10.1002/2015PA002828
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     Holocene; Paleoclimate modeling; AMOC; Sortable silt; δ13C; Magnetic susceptibility 
    Abstract
    Climate and ocean circulation in the North Atlantic region changed over the course of the Holocene, partly because of disintegrating ice sheets and partly because of an orbital-induced insolation trend. In the Nordic Seas, this impact was accompanied by a rather small, but significant, amount of Greenland ice sheet melting. We have employed the EMIC LOVECLIM and compared our model simulations with proxy-based reconstructions of δ13C, sortable silt, and magnetic susceptibility (κ) used to infer changes in past ocean circulation over the last 9000 years. The various reconstructions exhibit different long-term evolutions suggesting changes in either the overturning of the Atlantic in total or of subcomponents of the ocean circulation, such as the overflow waters across the Greenland-Scotland ridge. Thus, the question arises whether these reconstructions are consistent with each other or not. A comparison with model results indicates that δ13C, employed as an indicator of overturning, agrees well with the long-term evolution of the modeled Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). The model results suggest that different long-term trends in subcomponents of the AMOC, such as Iceland-Scotland overflow water, are consistent with proxy-based reconstructions and allow some of the reconstructions to be reconciled with the modeled and reconstructed (from δ13C) AMOC evolution. We find a weak early Holocene AMOC, which recovers by 7 kyr B.P. and shows a weak increasing trend of 88 ± 1 mSv/kyr toward present, with relatively low variability on centennial to millennial timescales.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2015. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Paleoceanography 30 (2015): 1503–1524, doi:10.1002/2015PA002828.
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    Paleoceanography 30 (2015): 1503–1524
     

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