7 results on '"Rohling, E. J."'
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2. The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future.
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Noble, T. L., Rohling, E. J., Aitken, A. R. A., Bostock, H. C., Chase, Z., Gomez, N., Jong, L. M., King, M. A., Mackintosh, A. N., McCormack, F. S., McKay, R. M., Menviel, L., Phipps, S. J., Weber, M. E., Fogwill, C. J., Gayen, B., Golledge, N. R., Gwyther, D. E., Hogg, A. McC., and Martos, Y. M.
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The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and ice sheet models reveal that the AIS has been tightly coupled to the climate system during the past and indicate the potential for accelerated and sustained Antarctic ice mass loss into the future. Modern observations by contrast suggest that the AIS has only just started to respond to climate change in recent decades. The maximum projected sea level contribution from Antarctica to 2100 has increased significantly since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report, although estimates continue to evolve with new observational and theoretical advances. This review brings together recent literature highlighting the progress made on the known processes and feedbacks that influence the stability of the AIS. Reducing the uncertainty in the magnitude and timing of the future sea level response to AIS change requires a multidisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge of the interactions between the ice sheet, solid Earth, atmosphere, and ocean systems and across time scales of days to millennia. We start by reviewing the processes affecting AIS mass change, from atmospheric and oceanic processes acting on short time scales (days to decades), through to ice processes acting on intermediate time scales (decades to centuries) and the response to solid Earth interactions over longer time scales (decades to millennia). We then review the evidence of AIS changes from the Pliocene to the present and consider the projections of global sea level rise and their consequences. We highlight priority research areas required to improve our understanding of the processes and feedbacks governing AIS change.Plain Language Summary: The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is an important component of the global climate system. Human activities have caused the atmosphere and especially the oceans to warm. However, the full effect of human caused climate change on the AIS has not currently been realized because the ice sheet responds on a range of time scales and to many different Earth processes. Modern observations show that West Antarctica has been melting at an accelerating rate since the 2000s, while the data for East Antarctica are less clear. Environmental records preserve the history of the climate and AIS, which extend beyond the instrumental record and reveal how the AIS responded to past climate warming. Estimates of how much the AIS will contribute to sea level rise by the Year 2100 have changed as a result of new information on how the AIS evolved in the past and research into the interactions between the ice sheet, solid Earth atmosphere, and ocean systems. This review brings together our knowledge of the major processes and feedbacks affecting the AIS and the evidence for how the ice sheet changed since the Pliocene. We consider the future estimates and consequences of global sea level rise from melting of the AIS and highlight priority research areas.Key Points: The AIS is a highly dynamic component of the Earth system, evolving on a broad range of temporal and spatial scalesPaleoenvironmental evidence highlights the centennial to millennial response time scales of the AIS to atmospheric‐ocean forcingCoupling feedbacks in Earth system components are required to reduce the uncertainty in AIS's contribution to past and future sea level rise [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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3. The timing of Mediterranean sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level and African monsoon changes
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Grant, K. M., Grimm, R., Mikolajewicz, U., Marino, G., Ziegler, M., Rohling, E. J., Stratigraphy and paleontology, Stratigraphy & paleontology, Stratigraphy and paleontology, and Stratigraphy & paleontology
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Archeology ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Evolution ,Eastern Mediterranean ,Precession ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Monsoon ,01 natural sciences ,Marine Isotope Stage 5 ,Behavior and Systematics ,African monsoon ,Insolation ,Sea level ,14. Life underwater ,Glacial period ,Sapropels ,Meltwater ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Holocene ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Global and Planetary Change ,Ecology ,Meltwater pulses ,Geology ,Sapropel ,Oceanography ,Archaeology ,13. Climate action ,Climatology ,Ice sheets - Abstract
The Mediterranean basin is sensitive to global sea-level changes and African monsoon variability on orbital timescales. Both of these processes are thought to be important to the deposition of organic-rich sediment layers or 'sapropels' throughout the eastern Mediterranean, yet their relative influences remain ambiguous. A related issue is that an assumed 3-kyr lag between boreal insolation maxima and sapropel mid-points remains to be tested. Here we present new geochemical and ice-volume-corrected planktonic foraminiferal stable isotope records for sapropels S1 (Holocene), S3, S4, and S5 (Marine Isotope Stage 5) in core LC21 from the southern Aegean Sea. The records have a radiometrically constrained chronology that has already been synchronised with the Red Sea relative sea-level record, and this allows detailed examination of the timing of sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level, and African monsoon changes. We find that sapropel onset was near-synchronous with monsoon run-off into the eastern Mediterranean, but that insolation-sapropel/monsoon phasings were not systematic through the last glacial cycle. These latter phasings instead appear to relate to sea-level changes. We propose that persistent meltwater discharges into the North Atlantic (e.g., at glacial terminations) modified the timing of sapropel deposition by delaying the timing of peak African monsoon run-off. These observations may reconcile apparent model-data offsets with respect to the orbital pacing of the African monsoon. Our observations also imply that the previous assumption of a systematic 3-kyr lag between insolation maxima and sapropel midpoints may lead to overestimated insolation-sapropel phasings. Finally, we surmise that both sea-level rise and monsoon run-off contributed to surface-water buoyancy changes at times of sapropel deposition, and their relative influences differed per sapropel case, depending on their magnitudes. Sea-level rise was clearly important for sapropel S1, whereas monsoon forcing was more important for sapropels S3, S4, and S5.
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- 2016
4. Bipolar seesaw control on last interglacial sea level.
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Marino, G., Rohling, E. J., Rodríguez-Sanz, L., Grant, K. M., Heslop, D., Roberts, A. P., Stanford, J. D., and Yu, J.
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SEA level , *INTERGLACIALS , *OCEAN-atmosphere interaction , *CRYOSPHERE , *TIME series analysis , *MELTWATER , *GLOBAL temperature changes - Abstract
Our current understanding of ocean-atmosphere-cryosphere interactions at ice-age terminations relies largely on assessments of the most recent (last) glacial-interglacial transition, Termination I (T-I). But the extent to which T-I is representative of previous terminations remains unclear. Testing the consistency of termination processes requires comparison of time series of critical climate parameters with detailed absolute and relative age control. However, such age control has been lacking for even the penultimate glacial termination (T-II), which culminated in a sea-level highstand during the last interglacial period that was several metres above present. Here we show that Heinrich Stadial 11 (HS11), a prominent North Atlantic cold episode, occurred between 135 ± 1 and 130 ± 2 thousand years ago and was linked with rapid sea-level rise during T-II. Our conclusions are based on new and existing data for T-II and the last interglacial that we collate onto a single, radiometrically constrained chronology. The HS11 cold episode punctuated T-II and coincided directly with a major deglacial meltwater pulse, which predominantly entered the North Atlantic Ocean and accounted for about 70 per cent of the glacial-interglacial sea-level rise. We conclude that, possibly in response to stronger insolation and CO2 forcing earlier in T-II, the relationship between climate and ice-volume changes differed fundamentally from that of T-I. In T-I, the major sea-level rise clearly post-dates Heinrich Stadial 1. We also find that HS11 coincided with sustained Antarctic warming, probably through a bipolar seesaw temperature response, and propose that this heat gain at high southern latitudes promoted Antarctic ice-sheet melting that fuelled the last interglacial sea-level peak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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5. Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years.
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Rohling, E. J., Foster, G. L., Grant, K. M., Marino, G., Roberts, A. P., Tamisiea, M. E., and Williams, F.
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DEEP-sea temperature , *SEA level , *CLIMATE change , *OXYGEN isotopes , *RADIATIVE forcing , *ICE sheets - Abstract
Ice volume (and hence sea level) and deep-sea temperature are key measures of global climate change. Sea level has been documented using several independent methods over the past 0.5 million years (Myr). Older periods, however, lack such independent validation; all existing records are related to deep-sea oxygen isotope (δ18O) data that are influenced by processes unrelated to sea level. For deep-sea temperature, only one continuous high-resolution (Mg/Ca-based) record exists, with related sea-level estimates, spanning the past 1.5 Myr. Here we present a novel sea-level reconstruction, with associated estimates of deep-sea temperature, which independently validates the previous 0-1.5 Myr reconstruction and extends it back to 5.3 Myr ago. We find that deep-sea temperature and sea level generally decreased through time, but distinctly out of synchrony, which is remarkable given the importance of ice-albedo feedbacks on the radiative forcing of climate. In particular, we observe a large temporal offset during the onset of Plio-Pleistocene ice ages, between a marked cooling step at 2.73 Myr ago and the first major glaciation at 2.15 Myr ago. Last, we tentatively infer that ice sheets may have grown largest during glacials with more modest reductions in deep-sea temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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6. Sea-level fluctuations during the last glacial cycle.
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Siddall, M., Rohling, E. J., Almogi-Labin, A., Hemleben, Ch., Meischner, D., Schmelzer, I., and Smeed, D. A.
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GLACIAL Epoch , *SEA level , *OCEAN - Abstract
The last glacial cycle was characterized by substantial millennial-scale climate fluctuations, but the extent of any associated changes in global sea level (or, equivalently, ice volume) remains elusive. Highstands of sea level can be reconstructed from dated fossil coral reef terraces, and these data are complemented by a compilation of global sea-level estimates based on deep-sea oxygen isotope ratios at millennial-scale resolution or higher. Records based on oxygen isotopes, however, contain uncertainties in the range of 30?m, or 1??C in deep sea temperature. Here we analyse oxygen isotope records from Red Sea sediment cores to reconstruct the history of water residence times in the Red Sea. We then use a hydraulic model of the water exchange between the Red Sea and the world ocean to derive the sill depth-and hence global sea level-over the past 470,000 years (470?kyr). Our reconstruction is accurate to within 12?m, and gives a centennial-scale resolution from 70 to 25?kyr before present. We find that sea-level changes of up to 35?m, at rates of up to 2?cm?yr-1, occurred, coincident with abrupt changes in climate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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7. Corrigendum: Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years.
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Rohling, E. J., Foster, G. L., Grant, K. M., Marino, G., Roberts, A. P., Tamisiea, M. E., and Williams, F.
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SEA level , *DEEP-sea temperature - Abstract
A correction to the article "Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years" that was published in 2014 issue is presented.
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- 2014
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