RT Journal Article
T1 Subsurface temperatures during the last millennium: Model and observation
A1 Beltrami, Hugo
A1 González Rouco, J. Fidel
A1 Stevens, M. Bruce
AB General Circulation Models (GCMs) used to distinguish anthropogenic forcing of the Earth's past climate from its natural variability need to be validated by observations. The GCM ECHO-g was used to produce three millennial simulations of the Earth's climate. Two simulations include changes in anthropogenic and natural external forcing factors through the last millennium, differing only in their initial conditions, and a control run with constant external forcing representing internal variability. Since the ground contains a record of long-term trends in SAT, we use borehole temperatures in Canada, grouped into regions, as a record of past climate. The regional average SATs from ECHO-g were used to solve the forward subsurface thermal profile, and compared with the underground temperature anomalies observed at each region. In all cases simulated subsurface anomalies from the forced simulations are in better agreement with observations than those from the control simulation.
PB American Geophysical Union
SN 0094-8276
YR 2006
FD 2006-05-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51829
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51829
LA eng
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NO Copyright 2006 by the American Geophysical Union. This research was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF), and project CGL2005-06097 of the Spanish MEC. Part of this work was carried out while JFGR was a James Chair Professor at STFX.
NO Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
NO Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF)
NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC), España
DS Docta Complutense
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