RT Journal Article
T1 Climate simulation for 125 kyr BP with a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model
A1 Montoya Redondo, María Luisa
A1 von Storch, H.
A1 Crowley, T. J.
AB The ECHAM-1 T21/LSG coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model (GCM) is used to simulate climatic conditions at the last interglacial maximum (Eemian. 125 kyr BP). The results reflect thc expected surface temperature changes (with respect to the control run) due to the amplification (reduction) of the seasonal cycle of insolation in the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere. A number of simulated features agree with previous results from atmospheric GCM simulations e.g. intensified summer southwest monsoons) except in the Northern Hemisphere poleward of 30 degrees N. where dynamical feedback, in the North Atlantic and North Pacific increase zonal temperatures about 1 degrees C above what would be predicted from simple energy balance considerations. As this is the same area where most of the terrestrial geological data originate, this result suggests that previous estimates of Eemian global average temperature might have been biased by sample distribution. This conclusion is supported by the fact that the estimated global temperature increase of only 0.3 degrees C greater than the control run ha, been previously shown to be consistent a with CLIMAP sea surface temperature estimates. Although the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon is intensified. globally averaged precipitation over land is within about 1% of the present, contravening some geological inferences bur not the deep-sea delta(13)C estimates of terrestrial carbon storage changes. Winter circulation changes in the northern Arabian Sea. driven by strong cooling on land, are as large as summer circulation changes that are the usual focus of interest, suggesting that interpreting variations in the Arabian Sea. sedimentary record solely in terms of the summer monsoon response could sometimes lead to errors. A small monsoonal response over northern South America suggests that interglacial paleotrends in this region were not just due to El Nino variations.
PB American  Meteorological Society
SN 0894-8755
YR 2000
FD 2000-03-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59992
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59992
LA eng
NO © 2000 American Meteorological Society. We thank D. Schriever and M. Lautenschlager for supporting us with the simulations for the last interglacial and S.-Y. Kim for providing us with the EBM results. M. Montoya thanks also E. Zorita and S. Rahmstorf for valuable discussion, R. Voss and U. Cubasch for discussion concerning technical details of the model, and J.-S. von Storch for her help in the analysis of the ocean data. Finally, we thank J. Kutzbach and another anonymous reviewer for their valuable comments. M. Montoya was supported by a grant of the Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (Spain). H. von Storch was supported by EU Project MILLENIA. T. J. Crowley was supported by National Science Foundation Grant ATM-9529109.
NO Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (DGICYT), España
NO MILLENIA Project (UE)
NO National Science Foundation (NSF)
NO Unión Europea (UE)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 jul 2025