The effect of a Holocene climatic optimum on the evolution of the Greenland ice sheet during the last 10 kyr

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dc.contributorHáskóli Íslandsen_US
dc.contributorUniversity of Icelanden_US
dc.contributor.authorNielsen, Lisbeth T.
dc.contributor.authorAdalgeirsdottir, Gudfinna
dc.contributor.authorGkinis, Vasileios
dc.contributor.authorNuterman, Roman
dc.contributor.authorHvidberg, Christine S.
dc.contributor.departmentJarðvísindastofnun (HÍ)en_US
dc.contributor.departmentInstitute of Earth Sciences (UI)en_US
dc.contributor.schoolVerkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ)en_US
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-02T10:30:55Z
dc.date.available2018-11-02T10:30:55Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-22
dc.descriptionPublisher's version (útgefin grein)en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Holocene climatic optimum was a period 8–5 kyr ago when annual mean surface temperatures in Greenland were 2–3°C warmer than present-day values. However, this warming left little imprint on commonly used temperature proxies often used to derive the climate forcing for simulations of the past evolution of the Greenland ice sheet. In this study, we investigate the evolution of the Greenland ice sheet through the Holocene when forced by different proxy-derived temperature histories from ice core records, focusing on the effect of sustained higher surface temperatures during the early Holocene. We find that the ice sheet retreats to a minimum volume of ~0.15–1.2 m sea-level equivalent smaller than present in the early or mid-Holocene when forcing an ice-sheet model with temperature reconstructions that contain a climatic optimum, and that the ice sheet has continued to recover from this minimum up to present day. Reconstructions without a warm climatic optimum in the early Holocene result in smaller ice losses continuing throughout the last 10 kyr. For all the simulated ice-sheet histories, the ice sheet is approaching a steady state at the end of the 20th century.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation under the Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen and Villum Investigator Project IceFlow. Brice Noël and Michiel van den Broeke (IMAU, Utrecht University) are thanked for providing the RACMO2.3 Greenland SMB, precipitation and temperature data. B. Vinther is thanked for providing the Holocene accumulation reconstruction for the GRIP site. We are grateful for computing resources provided by the Danish Center for Climate Computing, a facility build with support of the Danish e-Infrastructure Corporation and the Niels Bohr Institute. Development of PISM is supported by NASA grants NNX13AM16G and NNX13AK27G. We thank the anonymous reviewers and Ralf Greve for their helpful suggestions which substantially improved the paper.en_US
dc.description.versionPeer Revieweden_US
dc.format.extent477-488en_US
dc.identifier.citationNielsen, L. T., AÐAlgeirsdÓTtir, G., Gkinis, V., Nuterman, R., & Hvidberg, C. S. (2018). The effect of a Holocene climatic optimum on the evolution of the Greenland ice sheet during the last 10 kyr. Journal of Glaciology, 64(245), 477-488. doi:10.1017/jog.2018.40en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/jog.2018.40
dc.identifier.issn0022-1430
dc.identifier.issn1727-5652 (e-ISSN)
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Glaciologyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/887
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Glaciology;64(245)
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143018000400en_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectIce coreen_US
dc.subjectIce-sheet modellingen_US
dc.subjectPaleoclimateen_US
dc.subjectJöklarannsókniren_US
dc.subjectNýlífsölden_US
dc.subjectLoftslagsrannsókniren_US
dc.subjectGrænlanden_US
dc.titleThe effect of a Holocene climatic optimum on the evolution of the Greenland ice sheet during the last 10 kyren_US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleen_US
dcterms.licenseThis is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_US

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