Water stable isotope record of ice core WAIS divide
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| author | Steig, Eric J Ding, Quinghua White, James W C Küttel, Meinrad Rupper, Summer B Neumann, T A Neff, Peter D Gallant, Ailie J E Mayewski, Paul Andrew Taylor, Kendrick C Hoffmann, Georg Dixon, Daniel A Schoenemann, Spruce W Markle, Bradley R Fudge, Tyler J Schneider, David P Schauer, Andrew J Teel, Rebecca P Vaughn, Bruce H Burgener, Landon Williams, Jessica Korotkikh, Elena Gkinis, Vasileios |
| author_facet | Steig, Eric J Ding, Quinghua White, James W C Küttel, Meinrad Rupper, Summer B Neumann, T A Neff, Peter D Gallant, Ailie J E Mayewski, Paul Andrew Taylor, Kendrick C Hoffmann, Georg Dixon, Daniel A Schoenemann, Spruce W Markle, Bradley R Fudge, Tyler J Schneider, David P Schauer, Andrew J Teel, Rebecca P Vaughn, Bruce H Burgener, Landon Williams, Jessica Korotkikh, Elena Gkinis, Vasileios |
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| contents | Changes in atmospheric circulation over the past five decades have enhanced the wind-driven inflow of warm ocean water onto the Antarctic continental shelf, where it melts ice shelves from below. Atmospheric circulation changes have also caused rapid warming over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and contributed to declining sea-ice cover in the adjacent Amundsen-Bellingshausen seas. It is unknown whether these changes are part of a longer-term trend. Here, we use water-isotope (d18O) data from an array of ice-core records to place recent West Antarctic climate changes in the context of the past two millennia. We find that the d18O of West Antarctic precipitation has increased significantly in the past 50 years, in parallel with the trend in temperature, and was probably more elevated during the 1990s than at any other time during the past 200 years. However, d18O anomalies comparable to those of recent decades occur about 1% of the time over the past 2,000 years. General circulation model simulations suggest that recent trends in d18O and climate in West Antarctica cannot be distinguished from decadal variability that originates in the tropics. We conclude that the uncertain trajectory of tropical climate variability represents a significant source of uncertainty in projections of West Antarctic climate and ice-sheet change. |
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| spellingShingle | Water stable isotope record of ice core WAIS divide Steig, Eric J Ding, Quinghua White, James W C Küttel, Meinrad Rupper, Summer B Neumann, T A Neff, Peter D Gallant, Ailie J E Mayewski, Paul Andrew Taylor, Kendrick C Hoffmann, Georg Dixon, Daniel A Schoenemann, Spruce W Markle, Bradley R Fudge, Tyler J Schneider, David P Schauer, Andrew J Teel, Rebecca P Vaughn, Bruce H Burgener, Landon Williams, Jessica Korotkikh, Elena Gkinis, Vasileios Antarctica, west; DEPTH, ice/snow; ICEDRILL; Ice drill; WAIS_divide; δ18O, water Changes in atmospheric circulation over the past five decades have enhanced the wind-driven inflow of warm ocean water onto the Antarctic continental shelf, where it melts ice shelves from below. Atmospheric circulation changes have also caused rapid warming over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and contributed to declining sea-ice cover in the adjacent Amundsen-Bellingshausen seas. It is unknown whether these changes are part of a longer-term trend. Here, we use water-isotope (d18O) data from an array of ice-core records to place recent West Antarctic climate changes in the context of the past two millennia. We find that the d18O of West Antarctic precipitation has increased significantly in the past 50 years, in parallel with the trend in temperature, and was probably more elevated during the 1990s than at any other time during the past 200 years. However, d18O anomalies comparable to those of recent decades occur about 1% of the time over the past 2,000 years. General circulation model simulations suggest that recent trends in d18O and climate in West Antarctica cannot be distinguished from decadal variability that originates in the tropics. We conclude that the uncertain trajectory of tropical climate variability represents a significant source of uncertainty in projections of West Antarctic climate and ice-sheet change. |
| title | Water stable isotope record of ice core WAIS divide |
| topic | Antarctica, west; DEPTH, ice/snow; ICEDRILL; Ice drill; WAIS_divide; δ18O, water |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.886046 |