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NATURE GEOSCIENCE
卷 10, 期 7, 页码 518-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2974
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资金
- Helmholtz Postdoc Programme [PD-301]
- PACES program of the AWI
- BMBF
- opening foundation of the Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology & Environmental Geology, SOA [MASEG201701]
- opening foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University [MGK1611]
- national Natural Science Foundation of China [41575067]
- 'Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM' (Regional Climate Change), a joint research project of the Helmholtz Association of German research centres (HGF)
- UK NERC [NE/J008133/1, NE/L006405/1]
- NERC [NE/L006405/1, NE/J008133/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J008133/1, NE/L006405/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Glacial climate is marked by abrupt, millennial-scale climate changes known as Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. The most pronounced stadial coolings, Heinrich events, are associated with massive iceberg discharges to the North Atlantic. These events have been linked to variations in the strength of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. However, the factors that lead to abrupt transitions between strong and weak circulation regimes remain unclear. Here we show that, in a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean model, gradual changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations can trigger abrupt climate changes, associated with a regime of bi-stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation under intermediate glacial conditions. We find that changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations alter the transport of atmospheric moisture across Central America, which modulates the freshwater budget of the North Atlantic and hence deep-water formation. In our simulations, a change in atmospheric CO2 levels of about 15 ppmv-comparable to variations during Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles containing Heinrich events-is sufficient to cause transitions between a weak stadial and a strong interstadial circulation mode. Because changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation are thought to alter atmospheric CO2 levels, we infer that atmospheric CO2 may serve as a negative feedback to transitions between strong and weak circulation modes.
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