Continental constriction and oceanic ice-cover thickness in a Snowball-Earth scenario

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tziperman, Eli ^a   Abbot, Dorian S ^b   Ashkenazy, Yosef ^c   Gildor, Hezi ^d   Pollard, David ^e   Schoof, Christian G ^f   Schrag, Daniel P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DUST; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; DUST TRANSPORT; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GLOBAL CONFIGURATION; ICE FLOW; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-FLOW MODELS; MARGINAL SEAS; MODEL FORMULATION; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; OPTICAL EFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE SIMULATION; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; SPHERICAL COORDINATES; SUB-CONTINENTS;

ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOMETRY; HOMOGENEITY; ICE COVER; ICE FLOW; ICE THICKNESS; MARGINAL SEA; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 84861181836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007730     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Abbot, D. S., and R. T. Pierrehumbert (2010), Mudball: Surface dust and Snowball Earth deglaciation, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D03104, doi:10.1029/ 2009JD012007.
2. Abbot, D. S., A. Voigt, and D. Koll (2011), The Jormungand global climate state and implications for Neoproterozoic Glaciations, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D18103, doi:10.1029/2011JD015927.
3. Adcroft, A., J. Campin, C. Hill, and J. Marshall (2004), Implementation of an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model on the expanded spherical cube, Mon. Weath. Rev., 132(12), 2845-2863, doi:10.1175/MWR2823.1.
4. Campbell, A. J., E. D. Waddington, and S. G. Warren (2011), Refugium for surface life on Snowball Earth in a nearly-enclosed sea? A first simple model for sea-glacier invasion, Geophys. Res. Lett, 38, L19502, doi:10.1029/ 2011GL048846.
5. Chandler, M., and L. Sohl (2000), Climate forcings and the initiation of low-latitude ice sheets during the Neoproterozoic Varanger glacial interval, J. Geophys. Res., 105(D16), 20, 737-20, 756.
6. Doake, C, and D. Vaughan (1991), Rapid disintegration of the Wordie Ice Shelf in response to atmospheric warming, Nature, 350(6316), 328-330, doi:10.1038/350328a0.
7. Doake, C, H. Corr, H. Rott, P. Skvarca, and N. Young (1998), Breakup and conditions for stability of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Nature, 391(6669), 778-780, doi:10.1038/35832.
8. Glen, J. (1955), The creep of polycrystalline ice, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A, 228(1175), 519-538, doi:10.1098/rspa.1955.0066.
9. Goodman, J. C. (2006), Through thick and thin: Marine and meteoric ice in a "Snowball Earth" climate, Geophys. Res. Lett, 33, L16701, doi:10.1029/2006GL026840.
10. Goodman, J. C, and R. T. Pierrehumbert (2003), Glacial flow of floating marine ice in "Snowball Earth", J. Geophys. Res., 108(C10), 3308, doi:10.1029/2002JC001471.
11. Greenberg, M. (1998), Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 2nd ed., 1324 pp., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N. J.
12. Harland, W. B. (1964), Evidence of late Precambrian glaciation and its significance, in Problems in Palaeoclimatology, edited by A. E. M. Nairn, pp. 119-149, John Wiley, London.
13. Hoffman, P. F., and D. P. Schrag (2002), The snowball Earth hypothesis: Testing the limits of global change, Terra Nova, 14(3), 129-155, doi:10.1046/j.1365-3121.2002.00408.x.
14. Hoffman, P. F., A. J. Kaufman, G. P. Halverson, and D. P. Schrag (1998), A Neoproterozoic snowball Earth, Science, 281(5381), 1342-1346.
15. Hyde, W. T., T. J. Crowley, S. K. Baum, and W. R. Peltier (2000), Neoproterozoic 'snowball earth' simulations with a coupled climate/ice-sheet model, Nature, 405, 425-429.
16. Kirschvink, J. (1992), Late Proterozoic low-latitude global glaciation: The Snowball Earth, in The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study, edited by J. Schopf and C. Klein, pp. 51-52, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
17. Le Hir, G., Y. Donnadieu, G. Krinner, and G. Ramstein (2010), Toward the snowball Earth deglaciation..., Clim. Dyn., 35(2-3), 285-297, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0748-8.
18. Lewis, J. P., A. J. Weaver, and M. Eby (2007), Snowball versus slushball Earth: Dynamic versus nondynamic sea ice?, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C11014, doi:10.1029/2006JC004037.
19. Li, D., and R. T. Pierrehumbert (2011), Sea glacier flow and dust transport on snowball Earth, Geophys. Res. Lett, 38, L17501, doi:10.1029/2011GL048991.
20. Li, Z. X., et al. (2008), Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis, Precambrian Res., 160, 179-210.
21. Liu, Y., and W. R. Peltier (2010), A carbon cycle coupled climate model of Neoproterozoic glaciation: Influence of continental configuration on the formation of a "soft snowball", J. Geophys. Res., 115, D17111, doi:10.1029/2009JD013082.
22. MacAyeal, D. (1989), Large-scale ice flow over a viscous basal sediment: Theory and application to ice stream B, Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 94(B4), 4071-4087.
23. MacAyeal, D. (1997), Eismint: Lessons in ice-sheet modeling, technical report, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
24. MacAyeal, D., and V. Barcilon (1988), Ice-shelf response to ice-stream discharge fluctuations. 1. Unconfined ice tongues, J. Glaciol., 34(116), 121-127.
25. MacAyeal, D., T. Scambos, C. Hulbe, and M. Fahnestock (2003), Catastrophic ice-shelf break-up by an ice-shelf-fragment-capsize mechanism, J. Glaciol., 49(164), 22-36.
26. McKay, C. (2000), Thickness of tropical ice and photosynthesis on a snowball Earth, Geophys. Res. Lett, 27(14), 2153-2156, doi:10.1029/2000GL008525.
27. Morland, L. (1987), Unconfined ice-shelf flow, in Dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, edited by C. van der Veen and J. Oerlemans, pp. 99-116, D. Reidel, Boston, Mass.
28. Nye, J. F. (1965), The flow of a glacier in a channel of rectangular, elliptical or parabolic cross-section, J. Glaciol, 5(41), 661-690.
29. Pierrehumbert, R. T., D. S. Abbot, A. Voigt, and D. Koll (2011), Climate of the Neoproterozoic, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 39, 417-460.
30. Pollard, D., and J. Kasting (2005), Snowball Earth: A thin-ice solution with flowing sea glaciers, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C07010, doi:10.1029/ 2004JC002525.
31. Pollard, D., and J. F. Kasting (2006), Reply to comment by Stephen G. Warren and Richard E. Brandt on "Snowball Earth: A thin-ice solution with flowing sea glaciers", J. Geophys. Res., 111, C09017, doi:10.1029/ 2006JC003488.
32. Rott, H., P. Skvarca, and T. Nagler (1996), Rapid collapse of northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Science, 271(5250), 788-792, doi:10.1126/science. 271.5250.788.
33. Schoof, C. (2006), A variational approach to ice stream flow, J. Fluid Mech., 556, 227-251, doi:10.1017/S0022112006009591.
34. van der Veen, C. (1999), Fundamentals of Glacier Dynamics, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
35. Vieli, A., A. J. Payne, Z. Du, and A. Shepherd (2006), Numerical modelling and data assimilation of the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctic Ppeninsula, Philos. Trans. R Soc. A, 364(1844), 1815-1839, doi:10.1098/rsta.2006.1800.
36. Voigt, A., D. S. Abbot, R. T. Pierrehumbert, and J. Marotzke (2011), Initiation of a Marinoan Snowball Earth in a state-of-the-art atmosphere-ocean general circulation model, Clim. Past, 7, 249-263, doi:10.5194/cp-7-249-2011.
37. Warren, S. G., and R. E. Brandt (2006), Comment on "Snowball Earth: A thin-ice solution with flowing sea glaciers" by David Pollard and James F. Kasting, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C09016, doi:10.1029/2005JC003411.
38. Warren, S. G., R. E. Brandt, T. C. Grenfell, and C. P. McKay (2002), Snowball Earth: Ice thickness on the tropical ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C10), 3167, doi:10.1029/2001JC001123.
39. Weertman, J. (1957), Deformation of floating ice shelves, J. Glaciol, 3(21), 38-42.
40. Weis, M., R. Greve, and K. Hutter (1999), Theory of shallow ice shelves, Continuum Mech. Thermodyn., 11(1), 15-50, doi:10.1007/s001610050102.