A minimum thermodynamic model for the bipolar seesaw

By T. Stocker, S. Johnsen. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Marine isotope stage 3 sea level fluctuations: Data synthesis and new outlook (2008, background): “In fact, the Antarctic signal is suggested to be ‘‘catching up’’ with the North Atlantic forcing during D-O stadials, so that Antarctica continues to warm as long as the D-O stadial persists; Antarctic warming/cooling would therefore be proportional to the duration of the D-O stadial/interstadial pe”
Climate Response to External Sources of Freshwater: North Atlantic versus the Southern Ocean (2007, background): “Stocker and Johnsen (2003), using a simple thermodynamic model, find that a time lag of about 1000 yr between the NH and SH ice records produces the best fit to the curves.”
ENSO suppression due to weakening of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation (2005, neutral): “(2004), the MW experiment simulates a bipolar seesaw response, similar to the reconstructed north–south temperature gradient during Heinrich events (Blunier et al. 1998; Blunier and Brook 2001; Schmittner et al. 2003; Stocker and Johnsen 2003).”
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (2013, neutral): “This bipolar see-saw behavior suggests that inter hemispheric heat redistribution by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation 25 is taking place within the Eemian interglacial period as also observed during the last northern hemisphere deglaciation 19-11 ka 24-27 .”
Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core (2004, background): “Note that this is also the time when Antarctic temperature starts a slow decrease, that is, a typical expression of a bipolar see-saw as observed during stage 3 (ref”
The influence of a weakening of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO (2006, background): “We observe the well-known interhemispheric seesaw pattern in SST (Stocker and Johnsen 2003; Knutti et al. 2004), although the simulated temperature anomalies around Fig 3 live 4/C Fig 4 live 4/C Antarctica are quite small, except for the HadCM3 and the CCSM3 response.”
High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present (2008, background): “…are counterparts of the short and more pronounced warming events in the Northern Hemisphere known as Dansgaard–Oeschger events 18 , and hence are a manifestation of the bipolar seesaw 19–21 with oceanic and terrestrial processes likely contributing to the reconstructed CO 2 variations 22,23 .”
Dansgaard‐Oeschger oscillations predicted in a comprehensive model of glacial climate: A “kicked” salt oscillator in the Atlantic (2014, background): “…information from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets led to the recognition of a “bipolar seesaw” relationship between climate variability in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres [Broecker, 1998; Blunier and Brook, 2001; Morgan et al., 2002; Stocker and Johnsen, 2003; Barbante et al., 2006].”
High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period (2004, background): “From methane and δ 15 N air measurements, we confirm that this transition is the counterpart of the Northern Hemisphere stadial 2”
The last deglaciation: timing the bipolar seesaw (2011, background): “Therefore, despite the proposed 1000–1500 yr time constant of the Southern Ocean heat reservoir, the changes of slope in the south that we observe to accompany the abrupt changes in the north remain consistent with the Stocker and Johnsen (2003) model.”