DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00228.1
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84875835798
论文题名: Analysis of permafrost thermal dynamics and response to climate change in the CMIP5 earth system models
作者: Koven C.D. ; Riley W.J. ; Stern A.
刊名: Journal of Climate
ISSN: 8948755
出版年: 2013
卷: 26, 期: 6 起始页码: 1877
结束页码: 1900
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Air temperature cycle
; Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
; Cumulative distribution
; Earth system model
; Global climate model
; Mean annual air temperatures
; Multiple representatives
; Permafrost thaws
; Atmospheric temperature
; Climate change
; Forecasting
; Geologic models
; Permafrost
; Climate models
; air temperature
; climate change
; climate modeling
; global climate
; permafrost
; soil temperature
; thawing
英文摘要: The authors analyze global climate model predictions of soil temperature [from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) database] to assess the models' representation of current-climate soil thermal dynamics and their predictions of permafrost thaw during the twenty-first century. The authors compare the models' predictions with observations of active layer thickness, air temperature, and soil temperature and with theoretically expected relationships between active layer thickness and air temperature annualmean- and seasonal-cycle amplitude.Models show a wide range of current permafrost areas, active layer statistics (cumulative distributions, correlations with mean annual air temperature, and amplitude of seasonal air temperature cycle), and ability to accurately model the coupling between soil and air temperatures at high latitudes. Many of the between-model differences can be traced to differences in the coupling between either near-surface air and shallow soil temperatures or shallow and deeper (1 m) soil temperatures, which in turn reflect differences in snow physics and soil hydrology. The models are compared with observational datasets to benchmark several aspects of the permafrost-relevant physics of the models. The CMIP5 models following multiple representative concentration pathways (RCP) show a wide range of predictions for permafrost loss: 2%-66% for RCP2.6, 15%-87% for RCP4.5, and 30%-99% for RCP8.5. Normalizing the amount of permafrost loss by the amount of high-latitude warming in the RCP4.5 scenario, themodels predict an absolute loss of 1.6 6 0.7 million km2 permafrost per 18C high-latitude warming, or a fractional loss of 6%-29% °C-1. © 2013 American Meteorological Society. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/51944
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作者单位: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Koven C.D.,Riley W.J.,Stern A.. Analysis of permafrost thermal dynamics and response to climate change in the CMIP5 earth system models[J]. Journal of Climate,2013-01-01,26(6)