Impact of vegetation on the Miocene Climate optimum
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Paper/Presentation Title | Impact of vegetation on the Miocene Climate optimum |
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Presentation Type | Presentation |
Authors | You, John (Author), Herold, Nicholas (Author), Muller, Dietmar (Author), Sdrolias, Maria (Author) and Ribbe, Joachim (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 14th National Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society |
Number of Pages | 1 |
Year | 2007 |
Place of Publication | Adelaide, Australia |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.amos.org.au/conf2007/AMOS07_ABSTRACTS.pdf |
Conference/Event | 14th National Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society |
Event Details | 14th National Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Event Date 05 to end of 08 Feb 2007 Event Location Adelaide, Australia |
Abstract | The present day global warming started well before the industrial revolution about 400 years ago, comprising of two components with one natural and another human induced. Palaeoclimate study provides a key for the present warming on the natural component and, therefore, isolates the human input which can then be determined. The Miocene Climate Optimum (MCO) at 15 ma is a geologically most recent warming event with a temperature of 3º-5ºC higher than today but with atmospheric CO2 only about half its present value, decoupled with the warming. One thus expects that other factors to play more significant roles such as vegetation, altimetry, tectonic movement and other green house gasses. Here we address the vegetation which can potentially contribute about 2º-3ºC warming to the MCO. We develop a novel methodology to merge oceanic palaeo-bathymetry grids with continental palaeo-topography grids to produce Miocene boundary condition for palaeoclimate modelling, compile five vegetation data files as model input and apply updated NCAR coupled climate models, CCSM3 and CAM3.1 and CLM3 coupled with slab ocean and ice models, validated with proxies. Our results show that vegetation played an important role in the MCO development. |
Keywords | climate change, paleo-climatology, vegetation, global warming, Miocene, climate modelling |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 370201. Climate change processes |
370904. Palaeoclimatology | |
Public Notes | Speech presentation. Conference publication consists of only the abstracts of papers presented at the conference. Abstract only posted here. No evidence of copyright restrictions on web site. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Sydney |
Department of Biological and Physical Sciences |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y029/impact-of-vegetation-on-the-miocene-climate-optimum
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