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Impact of Mid-Glacial Ice Sheets on Deep Ocean Circulation and Global Climate Clim. Past, 17, 95–110, 2021 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-95-2021 © Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Impact of mid-glacial ice sheets on deep ocean circulation and global climate Sam Sherriff-Tadano, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, and Akira Oka Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan Correspondence: Sam Sherriff-Tadano ([email protected]) Received: 27 May 2020 – Discussion started: 12 June 2020 Revised: 25 September 2020 – Accepted: 10 November 2020 – Published: 12 January 2021 Abstract. This study explores the effect of southward ex- 1 Introduction pansion of Northern Hemisphere (American) mid-glacial ice sheets on the global climate and the Atlantic Meridional During the last glacial period, ice sheets evolved drasti- Overturning Circulation (AMOC) as well as the processes cally over the northern continent (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005; by which the ice sheets modify the AMOC. For this pur- Clark et al., 2009; Grant et al., 2012; Spratt and Lisiecki, pose, simulations of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 (36 ka) 2016, Fig. 1). After the initiation of the Northern Hemisphere and 5a (80 ka) are performed with an atmosphere–ocean gen- glacial ice sheets at the end of the last interglacial, the ice eral circulation model. In the MIS3 and MIS5a simulations, sheets expanded over northern North America and northern the global average temperature decreases by 5.0 and 2.2 ◦C, Europe during the early glacial period, Marine Isotope Stage respectively, compared with the preindustrial climate sim- 5d-a (MIS5d-a, 123–71 ka; Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), ulation. The AMOC weakens by 3 % in MIS3, whereas it and further expanded during MIS4 (71–57 ka; Lisiecki and strengthens by 16 % in MIS5a, both of which are consistent Raymo, 2005) associated with weakening of summer inso- with an estimate based on 231Pa = 230Th. Sensitivity exper- lation. The glacial ice sheets then shrank during the mid- iments extracting the effect of the southward expansion of glacial period (MIS3, 57–29 ka; Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), glacial ice sheets from MIS5a to MIS3 show a global cool- when the summer insolation and the concentration of CO2 ing of 1.1 ◦C, contributing to about 40 % of the total sur- were relatively large compared with MIS4 (Abe-Ouchi et al., face cooling from MIS5a to MIS3. These experiments also 2007; Grant et al., 2012; Spratt and Lisiecki, 2016; Pico et al., demonstrate that the ice sheet expansion leads to a surface 2017, Fig. 1). Subsequently, the ice sheets further expanded cooling of 2 ◦C over the Southern Ocean as a result of colder during MIS2 (29–14 ka; Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), when North Atlantic Deep Water. We find that the southward ex- the summer insolation and the concentration of CO2 were pansion of the mid-glacial ice sheet exerts a small impact low, and reached their maximum volume at the Last Glacial on the AMOC. Partially coupled experiments reveal that the Maximum (LGM; Peltier, 2004; Clark et al., 2009; Tarasov global surface cooling by the glacial ice sheet tends to reduce et al., 2012; Ishiwa et al., 2016). Because of these drastic the AMOC by increasing the sea ice at both poles and, hence, differences in the ice sheet and climate compared with mod- compensates for the strengthening effect of the enhanced sur- ern times, the last glacial period is considered important with face wind over the North Atlantic. Our results show that the respect to improving the understanding of the effect of ice total effect of glacial ice sheets on the AMOC is determined sheets on climate. by two competing effects: surface wind and surface cooling. Previous studies have investigated the impact of glacial The relative strength of surface wind and surface cooling ef- ice sheets on the climate under LGM background condi- fects depends on the ice sheet configuration, and the strength tions, which is set as the target period in the Paleoclimate of the surface cooling can be comparable to that of surface Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP; Braconnot et al., wind when changes in the extent of ice sheet are prominent. 2007, 2012; Abe-Ouchi et al., 2015; Kageyama et al., 2017). Based on reconstructions, the climate of the LGM is known to be the coldest and most stable period of the last glacial Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 96 S. Sherriff-Tadano et al.: Impact of mid-glacial ice sheets on deep ocean circulation and global climate these studies show a strengthening of the AMOC in response to the expansion of the northern glacial ice sheet (Eisen- man et al., 2009; Brady et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2014a; Gong et al., 2015; Klockmann et al., 2016; Brown and Gal- braith, 2016; Kawamura et al., 2017), whereas one study shows a reduction of the AMOC (Kim, 2004). From sensi- tivity experiments, it is clearly shown that the higher North- ern American glacial ice sheets enhance the surface wind as well as the wind-driven oceanic transport of salt into the deep-water formation region over the North Atlantic, which increases the surface salinity and causes a strengthening of the AMOC (Oka et al., 2012; Muglia and Schmittner, 2015; Sherriff-Tadano et al., 2018). Other studies also suggest the importance of changes in surface cooling (Smith and Gre- gory, 2012), which can cause either a strengthening of the AMOC by enhancing deep-water formation over the North Atlantic (Schmittner et al., 2002; Oka et al., 2012; Smith and Gregory, 2012) or a weakening of the AMOC by increas- ing the amount of sea ice over the northern North Atlantic and Southern Ocean (Kawamura et al., 2017). Nevertheless, due to the complicated coupling between the atmosphere and Figure 1. Time series of climate records of the last glacial ocean in climate systems, the role of surface cooling by the ◦ − period: panel (a) shows the 65 N July insolation (W m 2); glacial ice sheets on the AMOC still remains elusive. in panel (b), black represents sea level data from Spratt and While the effects of glacial ice sheets on the LGM climate Lisiecki (2016), brown represents sea level data from Grant et have gained a large amount of attention, the effect of the pre- al. (2012), and gray represents the simulated time evolution of the LGM glacial ice sheet on the global climate and AMOC has sea level equivalent ice sheet volume from Abe-Ouchi et al. (2013); been less explored. Reconstructions of the ice sheets prior panel (c) shows CO2 (Bereiter et al., 2015); panel (d) shows the Greenland ice core δ18O from the North Greenland Ice Core Project to the LGM still have large uncertainties, although recent (NGRIP) core (Rasumussen et al., 2013). Panel (e) shows the studies suggest notable differences in ice sheets between the Bermuda Rise 231Pa = 230Th (Bohm et al., 2015), which is a proxy early glacial (MIS5a) and mid-glacial (MIS3). Between these for the strength of the AMOC. Red and blue shading correspond to two periods, the volume of ice sheets is slightly larger in the MIS3 and MIS5a target periods in our climate model simula- MIS3 than in MIS5a (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005; Grant et tions, respectively. al., 2012; Abe-Ouchi et al., 2013; Spratt and Lisiecki, 2016; Pico et al., 2017; Willeit and Ganopolski, 2018). In addition, studies using ice sheet modeling have suggested a larger ex- (Kindler et al., 2014; Kawamura et al., 2017). Furthermore, tent of the North American ice sheet in MIS3 compared with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) MIS5a, despite small differences in the maximum height of is considered to have been shallower and perhaps weaker the ice sheet (Fig. 2; Abe-Ouchi et al., 2007, 2013; Niu et compared with the preindustrial era (McManus et al., 2004; al., 2019). This is different from what is revealed with ex- Bohm et al., 2015; Muglia et al., 2018; Menviel et al., 2020; plorations using the LGM ice sheet, whose changes are large Oppo et al., 2018). Modeling studies show that the expansion in both height and extent. Hence, by comparing the early- of the Northern American glacial ice sheet cause a large cool- glacial and mid-glacial ice sheets, one may obtain different ing, a strengthening of atmospheric circulation, and a south- responses in the AMOC and global climate and may quantify ward shift of the rain belt over the North Atlantic (Cook and the effect of changes in the ice sheet extent and the surface Held, 1988; Kageyama and Valdes, 2000; Abe-Ouchi et al., cooling. 2007; Laine et al., 2009; Pausata et al., 2011; Hofer et al., Furthermore, recent reconstructions show some discrep- 2012; Löfverström et al., 2014; Merz et al., 2015). These ancies between the MIS3 and MIS5a climates. For exam- studies have also shown that the response of the atmospheric ple, it is shown that the AMOC is slightly weaker in MIS3 circulation is largely affected by the height of the ice sheet compared with that of MIS5a (Fig. 3; Bohm et al., 2015). (Gong et al., 2015; Merz et al., 2015), whereas the strength Ice core data also show that the duration of the millennial of the surface cooling is mainly controlled by the extent of timescale climate variability is shorter in MIS3 than in MIS5 the ice sheet (Abe-Ouchi et al., 2007). (Capron et al., 2010; Buizert and Schmittner, 2015; Lohmann Several studies using an atmosphere–ocean coupled gen- and Ditlevsen, 2019). Hence, by exploring the impact of the eral circulation model (AOGCM) have also shown that the mid-glacial ice sheets on the global climate and AMOC, one glacial ice sheets exert a large impact on the AMOC.
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