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Response of Earth’s Climate to Orbital Changes in Late Ordovician
YU Haonan, LIU Yonggang, LIN Qinfan, WEI Mengyu, ZUO Haoyue, ZHANG Jian, ZHANG Lulu
Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis    2024, 60 (6): 1037-1054.   DOI: 10.13209/j.0479-8023.2024.084
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 A series of sensitivity experiments on the Late Ordovician Earth’s climate under different orbital configurations were conducted using the atmosphere-ocean general circulation model CESM1.2.2. It was found that the local annual mean surface temperature could vary by more than 5.5℃ and the seasonal temperature by more than 23℃ due to changes in orbital parameters. The global mean temperature was affected by less than 0.2℃ due to precession, and an increase of about 1℃ in the global mean temperature could be caused by a change in obliquity from 22.5° to 24.5°, due to the annual mean solar radiation received at high latitudes, together with the ice-albedo feedback. The global mean precipitation rate was found not to be impacted by orbital changes, but its spatial and temporal distribution was highly impacted; the north-south shift of the intertropical convergence zone was controlled by the precession, and an increase in precipitation at the poles was caused by increases in the obliquity. A great impact on the spatial pattern of summer monsoonal regions was also caused by orbital changes. A change in the global monsoon area by more than 40% could be caused by changes in precession; a mild effect on the mid-latitude and high-latitude monsoon area of approximately 10% was caused by obliquity. Although Late Ordovician was overall warm with its global mean surface temperature exceeding 18℃, deep snow can be accumulated over large areas of continents in the southern hemisphere under most orbital configurations, indicating the possibility of the formation of large ice sheets.
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Impact of Tibetan Glacier Change on the Asian Climate during the Last Glacial Maximum
WU Yubin, LIU Yonggang, YI Chaolu, LIU Peng
Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis    2019, 55 (1): 159-170.   DOI: 10.13209/j.0479-8023.2018.094
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Taking the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum (about 26000 years ago to 19000 years ago) as the background climate, the authors study the climatic impact of the expansion of the glacier on the Tibetan Plateau using the atmospheric general circulation model CAM4 coupled to the land surface model CLM4. The results show that in summer the increased glacier extent over Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a significant impact on the climate in the Northern Hemisphere. Besides the significant temperature decrease on the glacier, atmospheric teleconnection can also cause significant warming near the Bering Strait. In addition, the disturbance caused by glaciers will enhance the South Asian summer monsoon and increase the precipitation there. Finally, through comparing the influence of the scale of the Qinghai-Tibetan glaciers on the climate under the different climate states of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and Pre-industrial (PI) periods, it was found that their influence in the PI period was significantly less than that in the LGM period. It indicates that impact of Tibetan glaciers on climate is related with the climate state.

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