Early-Holocene warming in Beringia and its mediation by sea-level and vegetation changes

Bartlein, P. J.; Edwards, M. E.; Hostetler, S. W.; Shafer, S. L.; Anderson, P. M.; Brubaker, L. B.; Lozhkin, A. V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1197-2015

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1197-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1197-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

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24 Sep 2015

Research article |

| 24 Sep 2015

Early-Holocene warming in Beringia and its mediation by sea-level and vegetation changes

P. J. Bartlein, M. E. Edwards, S. W. Hostetler, S. L. Shafer, P. M. Anderson, L. B. Brubaker, and A. V. Lozhkin

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RC C256: 'Interactive comment on “Early-Holocene warming in Beringia and its mediation by sea-level and vegetation changes” by P. J. Bartlein et al.', Andrei Andreev, 20 Apr 2015
RC C1069: 'Comments to Author', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Jul 2015
EC C1071: 'Editor's comment', Volker Rath, 14 Jul 2015
AC C1406: 'Authors' response', Pat Bartlein, 18 Aug 2015

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The ongoing warming of the Arctic is producing changes in vegetation and hydrology that, coupled with rising sea level, could mediate global changes. We explored this possibility using regional climate model simulations of a past interval of warming in Beringia and found that the regional-scale changes do strongly mediate the responses to global changes, amplifying them in some cases, damping them in others, and, overall, generating considerable spatial heterogeneity in climate change.