Climate of the Past www.clim-past.net 1814-9324 1814-9332 5 2 2009 10.5194/cp-5-183-2009 http://www.clim-past.net/5/183/2009/ http://www.clim-past.net/5/183/2009/cp-5-183-2009.html http://www.clim-past.net/5/183/2009/cp-5-183-2009.pdf 183 202 2009-06-03 Impacts of land surface properties and atmospheric CO₂ on the Last Glacial Maximum climate: a factor separation analysis A.-J. Henrot alexandra.henrot@ulg.ac.be L. François S. Brewer G. Munhoven Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium Unité de Modélisation du Climat et des Cycles Biogéochimiques, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium now at: Botany Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA Many sensitivity studies have been carried out, using climate models of different degrees of complexity to test the climate response to Last Glacial Maximum boundary conditions. Here, instead of adding the forcings successively as in most previous studies, we applied the separation method of U. Stein et P. Alpert 1993, in order to determine rigorously the different contributions of the boundary condition modifications, and isolate the pure contributions from the interactions among the forcings. We carried out a series of sensitivity experiments with the model of intermediate complexity Planet Simulator, investigating the contributions of the ice sheet expansion and elevation, the lowering of the atmospheric CO₂ and of the vegetation cover change on the LGM climate. <br><br> The separation of the ice cover and orographic contributions shows that the ice albedo effect is the main contributor to the cooling of the Northern Hemisphere, whereas orography has only a local cooling impact over the ice sheets. The expansion of ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere causes a disruption of the tropical precipitation, and a southward shift of the ITCZ. The orographic forcing mainly contributes to the disruption of the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to a redistribution of the precipitation, but weakly impacts the tropics. The isolated vegetation contribution also induces strong cooling over the continents of the Northern Hemisphere that further affects the tropical precipitation and reinforce the southward shift of the ITCZ, when combined with the ice forcing. The combinations of the forcings generate many non-linear interactions that reinforce or weaken the pure contributions, depending on the climatic mechanism involved, but they are generally weaker than the pure contributions. Finally, the comparison between the LGM simulated climate and climatic reconstructions over Eurasia suggests that our results reproduce well the south-west to north-east temperature gradients over Eurasia. 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