日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会

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[M-IS14] 南大洋・南極氷床が駆動する全球気候変動

2019年5月27日(月) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 8ホール)

コンビーナ:関 宰(北海道大学低温科学研究所)、岡 顕(東京大学大気海洋研究所)、植村 立(琉球大学 理学部)、真壁 竜介(国立極地研究所)

[MIS14-P08] 南極ドームふじ氷床コアの大気組成からみるターミネーション2の気候変動

*大藪 幾美1,2川村 賢二1,3,4北村 享太郎1 (1.情報・システム研究機構 国立極地研究所、2.日本学術振興会、3.総合研究大学院大学、4.海洋研究開発機構)

キーワード:南極、アイスコア、ドームふじ、退氷期、最終間氷期

Paleoclimatic proxies provide information about the variations of climate forcings and responses, such as atmospheric CO2concentration, temperature and sea level, as well as their magnitudes and phase relationships. Accurate chronological constraints are particularly important for numerical simulations, both for their input and validation data, to better understand the transient behaviors of climate and ice sheets. During the last interglacial period (~130 to ~120 thousand years before present (kyr BP)), the peak global mean surface temperature was ~1 degree higher than the preindustrial period, and the global sea level was ~6 – 9 m higher than today with significant contribution from the Antarctic ice sheet, whereas atmospheric CO2levels were similar to those in the preindustrial period (Dutton et al., 2015). The last interglacial period and the preceding transition from the penultimate glacial period are important targets for the paleoclimatic research to investigate the mechanisms for warming and ice-sheet reductions. However, responses (sequences, timing or magnitude) of ice sheets, temperature or ocean circulations to climate forcing during this period are much less well understood, partly because the number of proxies and time resolution are limited, and the chronological uncertainties are relatively large. A chronology of the Dome Fuji (DF) ice core was constructed by synchronizing variations in O2/N2ratio of occluded air with local summer insolation (Kawamura et al., 2007), but relatively large errors were later reported around the last interglacial (Fujita et al., 2015). Here, we reanalyzed the O2/N2ratio of the DF core by improving the methods for sample treatment, air extraction and mass spectrometry between 57 and 165 kyr BP to revise the DF chronology. The new chronology agrees within 1.2 kyr with a radiometric (U-Th) chronology of Chinese speleothems, the whose stated error is less than 1 kyr (Cheng et al., 2009), suggesting successful improvement of our ice-core chronology. Using δ18O of atmospheric O218Oatm) and CH4records measured on the same ice samples as used for the O2/N2measurements, we investigate climatic variations during the penultimate glacial period and deglaciation. We found that δ18Oatmbecomes heavier while CH4concentration increased at 138.4 kyr BP during the penultimate glacial maximum; this characteristic relationship was observed at Heinrich Event 2 (at ~24 kyr BP) during the last glacial maximum (Severinghaus et al., 2009; Rhodes et al., 2015). Other well-dated paleoclimatic records show major climatic changes around 138 kyr BP; an abrupt weakening of the Asian monsoon occurred at 138 kyr BP (Wang et al., 2008), and the onset of relative sea level rise was suggested at 139±1 kyr BP from seawater δ18O of Red Sea (Grant et al., 2012) and at 137 kyr BP from U-Th dating of Tahiti fossil corals (Thomas et al., 2009). The similarity of these ages suggests that a massive iceberg discharge event occurred at ~138 kyr BP, and it marked the onset of penultimate deglaciation. Our new data may provide better chronological constraints on the climatic forcings and responses around the penultimate deglaciation and last interglacial period.

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