EGU22-5749
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5749
EGU General Assembly 2022
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Evaluating atmospheric simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum using oxygen isotopes in ice cores and speleothems

André Paul1, Thejna Tharammal2, Alexandre Cauquoin3,4, and Martin Werner4
André Paul et al.
  • 1University of Bremen, MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Department of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany (apaul@marum.de)
  • 2Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • 3Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
  • 4Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany

Our goal is to investigate the structural uncertainty in the isotope-enabled atmospheric general circulation models iCAM5 and ECHAM6-wiso. In order to reduce all other sources of uncertainties, in particular, those that stem from different boundary conditions, we forced the two models by the same sets of pre-industrial (PI) and Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) surface boundary conditions; the latter were taken from GLOMAP  (Paul et al., 2021), which in turn were based on the MARGO project (MARGO Project Members, 2009) and recent estimates of LGM sea-ice extent. We compared our model results to reconstructions from ice cores (cf. Risi et al., 2010) and speleothems (cf. Comas-Bru et al., 2020). This comparison showed to what degree realizations of the atmospheric state of the LGM obtained from different models, due to different model set-ups and parameterizations, are in agreement with the proxy data. For example, the precipitation during the LGM was generally less depleted in the ECHAM6-wiso as compared to iCAM5, and as it turned out, the iCAM5 simulation produced only a rather weak LGM anomaly during summer (June-July-August, JJA) over the South Asian monsoon region.

How to cite: Paul, A., Tharammal, T., Cauquoin, A., and Werner, M.: Evaluating atmospheric simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum using oxygen isotopes in ice cores and speleothems, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-5749, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5749, 2022.

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