Influence of radiative forcing factors on ground–air temperature coupling during the last millennium: implications for borehole climatology
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Published:2018-11-01
Issue:11
Volume:14
Page:1583-1606
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ISSN:1814-9332
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Container-title:Climate of the Past
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Clim. Past
Author:
Melo-Aguilar CamiloORCID, González-Rouco J. Fidel, García-Bustamante ElenaORCID, Navarro-Montesinos Jorge, Steinert Norman
Abstract
Abstract. Past climate variations may be uncovered via reconstruction methods
that use proxy data as predictors. Among them, borehole reconstruction is a
well-established technique to recover the long-term past surface air
temperature (SAT) evolution. It is based on the assumption that SAT changes
are strongly coupled to ground surface temperature (GST) changes and
transferred to the subsurface by thermal conduction. We evaluate the SAT–GST
coupling during the last millennium (LM) using simulations from the Community
Earth System Model LM Ensemble (CESM-LME). The validity of such a premise is
explored by analyzing the structure of the SAT–GST covariance during the LM
and also by investigating the evolution of the long-term SAT–GST
relationship. The multiple and single-forcing simulations in the CESM-LME are
used to analyze the SAT–GST relationship within different regions and spatial
scales and to derive the influence of the different forcing factors on producing
feedback mechanisms that alter the energy balance at the surface. The results
indicate that SAT–GST coupling is strong at global and above multi-decadal
timescales in CESM-LME, although a relatively small variation in the
long-term SAT–GST relationship is also represented. However, at a global scale
such variation does not significantly impact the SAT–GST coupling, at local
to regional scales this relationship experiences considerable long-term
changes mostly after the end of the 19th century. Land use land cover changes
are the main driver for locally and regionally decoupling SAT and GST, as
they modify the land surface properties such as albedo, surface roughness and
hydrology, which in turn modifies the energy fluxes at the surface. Snow cover feedbacks
due to the influence of other external forcing are also important for
corrupting the long-term SAT–GST coupling. Our findings suggest that such
local and regional SAT–GST decoupling processes may represent a source of
bias for SAT reconstructions from borehole measurement, since the thermal
signature imprinted in the subsurface over the affected regions is not fully
representative of the long-term SAT variations.
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
Paleontology,Stratigraphy,Global and Planetary Change
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