Monday, March 09, 2015, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Speaker
Marika Holland
NCAR
Location:
ARC room 620
Recent work with coupled climate models has suggested that Antarctic sea ice has a two timescale response to stratospheric ozone loss, with a short term increase but a longer term decline. Here we explore this relationship in a large set of simulations from the Community Earth System Model and in other models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. We find that the strength of the long-term sea ice response relationship varies considerably across climate models and find evidence that this influences their late 20th century Antarctic sea ice trends.
Audience
Free and open to the public.