Response of air‐sea carbon fluxes and climate to orbital forcing changes in the Community Climate System Model

Response of air‐sea carbon fluxes and climate to orbital forcing changes in the Community Climate System Model

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by M. Jochum , S. Peacock , K. Moore , K. Lindsay

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@MISC{Jochum_responseof,
    author = {M. Jochum and S. Peacock and K. Moore and K. Lindsay},
    title = {Response of air‐sea carbon fluxes and climate to orbital forcing changes in the Community Climate System Model},
    year = {}
}

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[1] A global general circulation model coupled to an ocean ecosystem model is used to quantify the response of carbon fluxes and climate to changes in orbital forcing. Compared to the present‐day simulation, the simulation with the Earth’s orbital parameters from 115,000 years ago features significantly cooler northern high latitudes but only moderately cooler southern high latitudes. This asymmetry is explained by a 30 % reduction of the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation that is caused by an increased Arctic sea ice export and a resulting fresheningoftheNorthAtlantic.Thestrongnorthernhigh‐latitude cooling and the direct insolation induced tropical warming lead to global shifts in precipitation and winds to the order of 10%–20%. These climate shifts lead to regional differences in air‐sea carbon fluxes of the same order. However, the differences in global net air‐sea carbon fluxes are small, which is due to several effects, two of which stand out: first, colder sea surface temperature leads to a more effective solubility pump but also to increased sea ice concentration which blocks air‐sea exchange, and second, the weakening of Southern Ocean winds that is predicted by some idealized studies occurs only in part of the basin, and is compensated by stronger winds in other parts.

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