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North African vegetation–precipitation feedback in early and mid-Holocene climate simulations with CCSM3-DGVM
R. Rachmayani
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Klagenfurter Strasse, 28334 Bremen, Germany
M. Prange
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Klagenfurter Strasse, 28334 Bremen, Germany
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Leobener Strasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany
M. Schulz
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Klagenfurter Strasse, 28334 Bremen, Germany
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Leobener Strasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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The role of vegetation-precipitation feedbacks in modifying the North African rainfall response to enhanced early to mid-Holocene summer insolation is analysed using the climate-vegetation model CCSM3-DGVM. Dynamic vegetation amplifies the positive early to mid-Holocene summer precipitation anomaly by ca. 20% in the Sahara-Sahel region. The primary vegetation feedback operates through surface latent heat flux anomalies by canopy evapotranspiration and their effect on the African easterly jet.
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