Journal
GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
Volume 100, Issue -, Pages 278-290Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.11.002
Keywords
Isostasy; Ice cores; Antarctic Ice Sheet; Eustatic sea level; Last Interglacial; Ice sheet models
Funding
- European Union [243908]
- RCUK fellowship
- University of Bristol
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canada Research Chairs program
- British Antarctic Survey's Polar Science for Planet Earth programme
- NERC
- ANR DOME A project [ANR-07-BLAN-0125]
- NERC [bas0100024] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bas0100024] Funding Source: researchfish
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-07-BLAN-0125] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1023724] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This study evaluates the influence of plausible changes in East Antarctic Ice sheet (EAIS) thickness and the subsequent glacio-isostatic response as a contributor to the Antarctic warming indicated by ice core records during the Last Interglacial period (LIG). These higher temperatures have been estimated primarily using the difference in the 81) peak (on average similar to 15 parts per thousand.) in these LIG records relative to records for the Present Interglacial (PIG). Using a preliminary exploratory modelling study, it is shown that introducing a relatively moderate reduction in the amount of thickening of the EAIS over the LIG period introduces a significant increase (up to 8 parts per thousand.) in the predicted elevation-driven only 813 signal at the central Antarctic Ice sheet (AIS) ice core sites compared to the PIG. A sensitivity test in response to a large prescribed retreat of marine-based ice in the Wilkes and Aurora subglacial basins (equivalent to similar to 7 m of global mean sea-level rise) results in a distinct elevation signal that is resolvable within the ice core stable isotope records at three sites (Taylor Dome, TALDICE and EPICA Dome C). These findings have two main implications. First, EAIS elevation's only effects could account for a significant fraction of the LIG warming interpreted from ice core records. This result highlights the need for an improved estimate to be made of the uncertainty and size of this elevation-driven delta D signal which contributes to this LIG warming and that these effects need to be deconvolved prior to attempting to extract a climatic-only signal from the stable isotope data. Second, a fingerprint of significant retreat of ice in the Wilkes and Aurora basins should be detectable from ice core delta D records proximal to these basins and therefore used to constrain their contribution to elevated LIG sea levels, after accounting for ice sheet-climate interactions not considered in our approach. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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