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AARHUS UNIVERSITY Importance of Arctic Past Climate and Climate Change Studies Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz Centre for Past Climate Studies & Arctic Research Centre Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University (Denmark) AARHUS UNIVERSITY

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Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz

Centre for Past Climate Studies & Arctic Research Centre Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University (Denmark)

Importance of Arctic Past Climate and Climate Change Studies

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Emanuel Bowen's 1780s map of the Arctic features a "Northern Ocean".

The Arctic Ocean anno1780

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Jakobsson et al 2012, GRL: (IBCAO)

The Arctic Ocean anno 2012

10 ᵒC isoterm in July

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ACEX-IODP core Lomonosov Ridge

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CENOZOIC OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN

O’Regan 2011

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Global temperature 1880-2015

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2016

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NASA GISS temperature trend 2000-2009, showing strong Arctic amplification

Onset and magnitude of industrial-era warming in regional temperature reconstructions

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Past analogues for present and future climate change

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2000 years

  • f cooling

H McGregor et al. 2015. Nature Geoscience

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Onset and magnitude of industrial-era warming in regional temperature reconstructions

N J Abram et al. Nature 536, 411–418 (2016) doi:10.1038/nature19082

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NASA GISS temperature trend 2000-2009, showing strong Arctic amplification

Onset and magnitude of industrial-era warming in regional temperature reconstructions

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The Greenland Ice Sheet’s cumulative melt day anomalies for July 2016 July 2012 and July 2015 relative to the July average for 1981 to 2010.

NSIDS 2016

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Global sea level change change

Hansen et al. 2016, Atmosphere, Chemistry and Physics

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Hansen et al. 2016, Atmosphere, Chemistry and Physics

Impact of glacier melt on ocean circulation

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Arctic sea ice

September 10, 2016 NSIDC 2016

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The future of Arctic summer sea ice

IPCC 2013 NSIDC 2016

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Impact on diversity and spread of plants in the Arctic

Alsos et al. 2016, Biology Letters

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Logistics of Transportation

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Kuijpers et al 2014, Journ. of the North Atlantic

Impact on human habitation: the Norse

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Kuijpers et al 2014, Journ. of the North Atlantic

Impact on human habitation: the Norse

11-12 May 2012: sea ice from the East Greenland Current blocked south Greenland fjords

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Arctic ocean currents

Blue arrows = cold, relatively fresh water. Red arrows = warm, salty water from the North Atlantic

(Jack Cook, WHOI)

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Arctic Ocean water masses

Nature Education 2013 Swift et al. 1997)

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The basis for

  • ur work
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Archives of past climate change

Gravity corer Sediment core

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Foraminifera

Archives of past climate change

Gravity corer Sediment core

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ARCTIC OCEAN CORE SITES

O’Regan 2011

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Arctic Ocean Holocene sediments

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Arctic Ocean cores

Jakobsson et al 2010, QSR

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Sites with centennial to millennial- scale resolution

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Arctic high-resolution sites

N J Abram et al. 2016, Nature McGregor et al 2015, Nature Geoscience

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What to do?

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1953-2003 2003-2013 MODERN SEA ICE

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Arctic ocean currents

Blue arrows = cold, relatively fresh water. Red arrows = warm, salty water from the North Atlantic

(Jack Cook, WHOI)

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Geographical Differences Explain Mechanisms 1 2 3

Sicre et al., submitted, Science AD 2000 AD 1000

LIA MCA

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Catching the Arctic Oscillation in the North Atlantic

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CONCLUSIONS

  • The Arctic exerts a major control on global climate.
  • However, we actually know very little about Arctic

climate – especially its variability and “natural state”.

  • Select key (climate sensitive) sites for study.
  • Further development of methods
  • International collaboration.
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NorthGreen2017

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Centre for Past Climate Studies AARHUS UNIVERSITY

Thank you!

Funding agencies:  Danish Council for Independent Research, Natural Science  Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation  European Union FP7programme  Geocenter Danmark  … and many more