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Low Antarctic continental climate sensitivity due to high ice sheet orography

Writer's picture: David I Birch Climate-Earth20David I Birch Climate-Earth20

Abstract

The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades, despite a monotonic increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases. In this paper, we investigate whether the high orography of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) has helped delay warming over the continent. To that end, we contrast the Antarctic climate response to CO2-doubling with present-day orography to the response with a flattened AIS. To corroborate our findings, we perform this exercise with two different climate models.


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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-020-00143-w


 
 
 

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