Climate of the Past Discussions www.clim-past-discuss.net 1814-9340 1814-9359 3 3 2007 10.5194/cpd-3-693-2007 http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/693/2007/ http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/693/2007/cpd-3-693-2007.html http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/693/2007/cpd-3-693-2007.pdf 693 727 2007-05-07 Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet P. Huybrechts phuybrec@vub.ac.be O. Rybak F. Pattyn U. Ruth D. Steinhage Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Postfach 120161, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany Scientific Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Teatralnaya 8-a, 354000 Sochi, Russia Laboratoire de Glaciologie Polaire, Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement (DSTE), Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP160/03, Av. F. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium A nested ice flow model was developed for eastern Dronning Maud Land to assist with the dating and interpretation of the EDML deep ice core. The model consists of a high-resolution higher-order ice dynamic flow model that was nested into a comprehensive 3-D thermomechanical model of the whole Antarctic ice sheet. As the drill site is on a flank position the calculations specifically take into account the effects of horizontal advection as deeper ice in the core originated from higher inland. First the regional velocity field and ice sheet geometry is obtained from a forward experiment over the last 8 glacial cycles. The result is subsequently employed in a Lagrangian backtracing algorithm to provide particle paths back to their time and place of deposition. The procedure directly yields the depth-age distribution, surface conditions at particle origin, and a suite of relevant parameters such as initial annual layer thickness. 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