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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4162
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4162
30 Jan 2025
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Climate and stratospheric ozone during the mid-Holocene and Last Interglacial simulated by MRI-ESM2.0

Yasuto Watanabe, Makoto Deushi, and Kohei Yoshida

Abstract. The climates of the mid-Holocene (MH) and Last Interglacial (LIG) are characterised by warm periods caused by astronomical forcing and climate feedback. One potential feedback is variation in the stratospheric ozone, the influence of which would extend down to the troposphere, potentially affecting the climate. However, understanding the role of changes in the stratospheric ozone during past warm interglacial periods is limited to MH conditions. Here, we employ MRI-ESM2.0, an Earth system model with an iterative ozone model, and simulate the climate and atmospheric ozone during the MH and LIG. We show that the vertical and seasonal changes of stratospheric ozone in the LIG exhibited a stronger variation in the stratospheric ozone near the South Pole compared to that in the MH, indicating that both obliquity and precession forcings affect the stratospheric ozone distributions. We further show that its impact on the zonal mean surface air temperature is small, while it may affect surface air temperature regionally. These results advance the understanding of the dynamics of atmospheric ozone to astronomical forcing during the warm interglacials.

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This study uses an Earth System Model MRI-ESM2.0 to demonstrate that the atmospheric ozone distribution during warm interglacial periods are modified by the changes in the Earth’s orbital parameters. We further show that this would strengthen the southern westerly jet in the stratosphere. We further show that the impact of the change in atmospheric ozone on zonal mean surface air temperature is minor, while it may affect the regional temperature around the poles.
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