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Abrupt Climate Change around 4 ka BP:Role of the Thermohaline Circulation as Indicated by a GCM Experiment
作者姓名:王绍武  周天军  蔡静宁  朱锦红  谢志辉  龚道溢
作者单位:Department of Atmospheric Sciences,School of Physics,Peking University,Beijing 100871,State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,Department of Atmospheric Sciences,School of Physics,Peking University,Beijing 100871,Department of Atmospheric Sciences,School of Physics,Peking University,Beijing 100871,Department of Atmospheric Sciences,School of Physics,Peking University. Beijing 100871,Key Lab of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster,Ministry of Education,Institute of Resources Science,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875
基金项目:国家重点基础研究发展计划(973计划),国家自然科学基金
摘    要:A great deal of palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic evidence suggests that a predominant temperature drop and an aridiflcation occurred at ca. 4.0 ka BP. Palaeoclimate studies in China support this dedution. The collapse of ancient civilizations at ca. 4.0 ka BP in the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia has been attributed to climate-induced aridification. A widespread alternation of the ancient cultures was also found in China at ca. 4.0 ka BP in concert with the collapse of the civilizations in the Old World. Palaeoclimatic studies indicate that the abrupt climate change at 4.0 ka BP is one of the realizations of the cold phase in millennial scale climate oscillations, which may be related to the modulation of the Thermohaline Circulation (THC) over the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, this study conducts a numerical experiment of a GCM with SST forcing to simulate the impact of the weakening of the THC. Results show a drop in temperature from North Europe, the northern middle East Asia, and northern East Asia


Abrupt Climate Change around 4 ka BP:Role of the Thermohaline Circulation as Indicated by a GCM Experiment
WANG Shaowu,ZHOU Tianjun,CAI Jingning,ZHU Jinhong XIE Zhihui,and GONG Daoyi.Abrupt Climate Change around 4 ka BP:Role of the Thermohaline Circulation as Indicated by a GCM Experiment[J].Advances in Atmospheric Sciences,2004,21(2).
Authors:WANG Shaowu  ZHOU Tianjun  CAI Jingning  ZHU Jinhong XIE Zhihui  and GONG Daoyi
Institution:WANG Shaowu,ZHOU Tianjun,CAI Jingning,ZHU Jinhong XIE Zhihui,and GONG Daoyi Department of Atmospheric Sciences,School of Physics,Peking University,Beijing 100871 State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029 Key Lab of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster,Ministry of Education,Institute of Resources Science,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875
Abstract:A great deal of palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic evidence suggests that a predominant temperature drop and an aridification occurred at ca. 4.0 ka BP. Palaeoclimate studies in China support this dedution. The collapse of ancient civilizations at ca. 4.0 ka BP in the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia has been attributed to climate-induced aridification. A widespread alternation of the ancient cultures was also found in China at ca. 4.0 ka BP in concert with the collapse of the civilizations in the Old World. Palaeoclimatic studies indicate that the abrupt climate change at 4.0 ka BP is one of the realizations of the cold phase in millennial scale climate oscillations, which may be related to the modulation of the Thermohaline Circulation (THC) over the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, this study conducts a numerical experiment of a GCM with SST forcing to simulate the impact of the weakening of the THC. Results show a drop in temperature from North Europe, the northern middle East Asia, and northern East Asia and a significant reduction of precipitation in East Africa, the Middle East, the Indian Peninsula, and the Yellow River Valley. This seems to support the idea that coldness and aridification at ca. 4.0 ka BP was caused by the weakening of the THC.
Keywords:abrupt climate change  4 ka BP  thermohaline circulation  collapse of ancient civilization
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