ClarkPeterCEOASRegionalGlobalForcing.pdf

Citeable URL: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/dz010r86m

Descriptions

Attribute Name	Values
Creator	Shakun, Jeremy D. Clark, Peter U. He, Feng et al.
Abstract	The ongoing retreat of glaciers globally is one of the clearest manifestations of recent global warming associated with rising greenhouse gas concentrations. By comparison, the importance of greenhouse gases in driving glacier retreat during the most recent deglaciation, the last major interval of global warming, is unclear due to uncertainties in the timing of retreat around the world. Here we use recently improved cosmogenic-nuclide production-rate calibrations to recalculate the ages of 1,116 glacial boulders from 195 moraines that provide broad coverage of retreat in mid-to-low-latitude regions. This revised history, in conjunction with transient climate model simulations, suggests that while several regional-scale forcings, including insolation, ice sheets and ocean circulation, modulated glacier responses regionally, they are unable to account for global-scale retreat, which is most likely related to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.
Rights Statement	In Copyright

Relationships

Thumbnail

Title

Date Uploaded

Visibility

Actions

2017-07-26

Public

Download