Southern Hemisphere Polar Climate and its “Tropical Signature” Flávio Justino Universidade Federal de Viçosa Minas Gerais, Brasil
MotivationOutline Model and experimental design Coupled Model - CCSM Climate Response to Antarctic Oscillation Tropical-Polar Interaction Grip Ice Core Glacial Southern Mode - GSM CO 2 -induced Sea Ice Changes EMIC approach - LOVECLIM CO 2 –Induced Extra-tropical Climate Changes
LGM Motivation - Ice sheet impact Justino and Peltier GRL 2005, 2006 DJF - Annular structure Sea ice extent overestimated SEAICE MARGIN Red line – GLAMAP Black Line – Present day White Line – LGM Simulation
Motivation Why is the Holocene stable? Why was the Last Glacial Period unstable? Can abrupt changes occur during the „Anthropocene“ ? Ganopolski & Rahmstorf (2001) Holocene LGM
Motivation - Present Day Sea ice Changes a Annual Mean (-2,7% decade- 1 ) Annual Mean (0.5 % decade- 1 no significant) Summer Minimum (-7,4% decade- 1 ) IPCC 2007
Motivation Main Modes of Climate Variability ENSO U Illinois Justino and Peltier, JCLIM 2008 AO AAO
What is the NCAR-CSM 1.4 Model? Atmosphere-Land component - Full GCM, T31 (3.75 x 3.75 ° ) - 18 layers (top at 10hPa) - Soil moisture, 28 vegetated surfaces Ocean-sea-ice component - Ocean general circulation model - 3 x 3 ° horizontal resolution - 25 vertical levels Ocean-sea-iceAtmosphere-Land Exchange Momentum, freshwater, and heat
What is the LGM?
Antarctic Oscillation at 500hPa (Based on monthly mean values) Justino and Peltier, JCLIM 2008
Present Day LGM Surface Temperature Anom. [K] due to AAO+ in DJF Justino and Peltier (JCLI 2008) Surface winds Anom. [m/s]
Surface temperature and wind anomalies associated with AAO+ in JJA Present Day LGM Justino and Peltier (JCLI 2008)
Precipitation anomalies associated with AAO+ Justino and Peltier (JCLI 2008) Present Day LGM DJF JJA
SST anomalies associated with AAO Justino and Peltier (JCLI 2008) Present Day PEZZA AND SIMMONDS 2005
What About the Future?
Model: LOVECLIM Earth Model of Intermediate Complexity Initial Conditions: anthropogenic greenhouse gases 500, 600, 700 and 800ppm of CO 2 + CH 4, N 2 0, O 3
1400 yrs to equilibrate. Temperature Evolution
Surface Temperature Anomalies
14 ◦ C warming in Amundsen and Weddell Seas. Surface Temperature Anomalies
CO 2 Induced Sea ice Changes Justino et al. (Oecol. Bras. 2007)
Additional studies and grants are needed Many Thanks