Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2019

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[E] Poster

A (Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences ) » A-CG Complex & General

[A-CG35] Projection and detection of global environmental change

Wed. May 29, 2019 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall8, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Michio Kawamiya(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Hiroaki Tatebe(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Kaoru Tachiiri(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

[ACG35-P14] Extreme Events and Emergent Trends in Marine Ecosystem Stressors under a historical/RCP8.5 Climate Change Pathway

*Keith Bradley Rodgers1,2, Sarah Schlunegger3, Richard Slater3, Burke Hales4, Axel Timmermann1,2 (1.IBS Center for Climate Physics, Busan, South Korea, 2.Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, 3.AOS Program, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA, 4.College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State Universitym, Corvallis, OR, USA)

Keywords:Climate Change, Ecosystem Stressors, Extreme Events, Large Ensemble

It is important to identify the degree to which climate change will impact ocean ecosystems over the 21stcentury. Over the last decade there has been increasing application of Earth System Models (ESMs) to project changes in ecosystem stressors (acidification, warming, and de-oxygenation) with a focus on surface and/or thermocline-integrated conditions. Recent efforts have made combined use of CMIP5 models, large ensemble simulations, and/or scenario sensitivity experiments to estimate uncertainties in future projections. Nevertheless very little to date has been done to evaluate how the frequency of extreme events with ecosystem stressors will respond to future climate perturbations. Here we consider for an ensemble suite of simulations with GFDL’s ESM2M changes in the frequency of marine ecosystem extreme events over the 21stcentury. We focus on the contrast between the behavior at the ocean’s surface vs. base of the ocean’s euphotic zone, as these are both important horizons for ocean ecosystems, and on the contrast between the Time of Emergence of decadal trends vs. frequency changes of extreme events, as these are both important ecological timescales. Particular attention is devoted to acidification at the base of the euphotic zone, as this pertains to the life cycle of pteropods. Preliminary results indicate that in addition to the subpolar Northern Oceans and the Southern Ocean, the Large Marine Ecosystems (LME) regions of the eastern Pacific become increasingly exposed to corrosive waters over the 21stcentury.