Effect of Aerosol Distributions on Precipitation Patterns Needed for a Rapid Ice Age

Authors

Steven M. Gollmer, Cedarville UniversityFollow

Addresses of All Authors

Cedarville University, 251 N. Main St., Cedarville, OH 45314

Author's Biography

Dr. Gollmer serves as professor of physics at Cedarville University. He earned a B.S. in secondary education, math and science from Pillsbury Baptist Bible College, a B.S. in physics from Northern Illinois University, an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in atmospheric science from Purdue University. He is a member of the Creation Research Society, Creation Biology Society, American Geophysical Union and American Association of Physics Teachers. Dr. Gollmer’s specialization includes wavelet analysis, Monte Carlo simulation and radiative transfer. His research is currently focused on climate modeling and data science.

Proposal

Introduced in the Genesis Flood by Whitcomb and Morris (1961) and fleshed out by Oard (1979) a model for an ice age in the wake of the Genesis flood was used to explain the evidence of glaciation in Canada and the United States without resorting to eons of time. It was proposed that this rapid ice age was the consequence of post flood warm oceans, barren land and volcanic aerosols. The impact of warm oceans was simulated by Vardiman (1998) and Gollmer (2013) using climate models. Although warm oceans increase precipitation in the Arctic, global surface temperatures become unbearably hot unless volcanic aerosols equivalent to the eruption of Toba are used. In addition, with ocean temperatures of 30 ˚C the formation of snow and ice are impossible because air and land temperatures in the Arctic remain above freezing.

Using dynamic oceans with a uniform initial temperature of 24 ˚C, climate simulations are performed to explore the impact of aerosol distributions on the position of the jet stream and storm tracks. In previous simulations, precipitation in the Arctic is primarily over the ocean rather than land, thus limiting how quickly ice sheets are able to grow. Although the simulations reported here are still too warm for the accumulation of snow, it is clear that the thermal circulation coming off a cold continent must be offset by other factors in order for sufficient precipitation to fall inland.

Disciplines

Atmospheric Sciences | Climate | Physics

Keywords

climate modeling, Ice age, post-Flood, warm ocean, sea-surface temperature, aerosols, precipitation, winds

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15385/jpicc.2018.8.1.47

Print Reference

Pages 695-706

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Recommended Citation

Gollmer, S.M. 2018. Effect of aerosol distributions on precipitation patterns needed for a rapid Ice Age. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Creationism, ed. J.H. Whitmore, pp. 695-706. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship.