PublicationNew study on simulating abrupt glacial climate transitions

23 July 2024, by Marlene Klockmann

Photo: modified from Malmierca-Vallet et al, AGU, CC BY 4.0

More and more climate models are capable of simulating abrupt climate transitions that resemble warming and coolig events which occurred during the last glacial period (Dansgaard-Oeschger events, 27.8 to 59.4 thousand years ago). Marlene Klockmann contributed a set of simulations with MPI-ESM to the very first intercomparison study of Dansgaard-Oeschger like climate variability in climate models. Simulations with MPI-ESM, HadCM3 and CCSM4 were compared in order to identify common controls on these climate transitions in climate models. Read the full story here: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110068 .

Picture modified from Malmierca-Vallet et al, AGU, CC BY 4.0