NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Climate Model Output, LGM with Modern Ocean Heat Transport

A series of climate simulations using an atmospheric general circulation model shows that maintaining ocean heat transport at close to present-day values, but with otherwise glacial boundary conditions, leads to an enhanced cooling, particularly in the tropics. This is in agreement with recent geochemical evidence from fossil corals, ground waters, and ice. Near-modern ocean heat transport may have been sustained in all ocean basins during the Last Glacial Maximum in order to balance the formation and export of Glacial North Atlantic Intermediate Water.

本存档古气候学研究可从美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）下属的国家环境信息中心（NCEI）获取，该中心隶属于世界数据服务（WDS）古气候学分部。相关的NCEI研究类型为古气候学建模。数据包含古气候建模参数，地理范围覆盖全球。时间跨度为距今日历年代（BP）18000年至17000年。参数及研究地点详情请参见元数据信息。使用数据时请引用本研究。