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15 Apr 2016
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The link between marine sediment records and changes in Holocene Saharan landscape: simulating the dust cycle
Sabine Egerer
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Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Martin Claussen
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Christian Reick
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Tanja Stanelle
Center for Climate System Modeling, ETH Zurich, Universitaetstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Northern Hemisphere vegetation change drives a Holocene thermal maximum A. Thompson et al. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj6535
- Monsoon-driven Saharan dust variability over the past 240,000 years C. Skonieczny et al. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav1887
- Millennial-scale fluctuations in Saharan dust supply across the decline of the African Humid Period C. Zielhofer et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.07.010
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- On the Role of Dust‐Climate Feedbacks During the Mid‐Holocene P. Hopcroft & P. Valdes https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080483
- Dust arriving in the Amazon basin over the past 7,500 years came from diverse sources J. Nogueira et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00071-w
- African Humid Period Precipitation Sustained by Robust Vegetation, Soil, and Lake Feedbacks D. Chandan & W. Peltier https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088728
- Understanding the Mechanisms behind the Northward Extension of the West African Monsoon during the Mid-Holocene M. Gaetani et al. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0299.1
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- Aeolian dust dynamics in the Fergana Valley, Central Asia, since ~30 ka inferred from loess deposits Y. Li et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101180
- A Possible Role of Dust in Resolving the Holocene Temperature Conundrum Y. Liu et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22841-5
- Modulation of Mid‐Holocene African Rainfall by Dust Aerosol Direct and Indirect Effects A. Thompson et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081225
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- Strong links between Saharan dust fluxes, monsoon strength, and North Atlantic climate during the last 5000 years J. Cruz et al. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe6102
- North-African paleodrainage discharges to the central Mediterranean during the last 18,000 years: A multiproxy characterization J. Wu et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.015
- Could gradual changes in Holocene Saharan landscape have caused the observed abrupt shift in North Atlantic dust deposition? S. Egerer et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.010
- Nature and dynamics of North African humid and dry periods during the last 200,000 years documented in the clay fraction of Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea sediments W. Ehrmann & G. Schmiedl https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106925
- Technical note: Characterising and comparing different palaeoclimates with dynamical systems theory G. Messori & D. Faranda https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-545-2021
- Glacial to Holocene changes in trans-Atlantic Saharan dust transport and dust-climate feedbacks R. Williams et al. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600445
- A Quantitative Model‐Based Assessment of Stony Desert Landscape Evolution in the Hami Basin, China: Implications for Plio‐Pleistocene Dust Production in Eastern Asia J. Abell et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090064
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We demonstrate for the first time the direct link between dust accumulation in marine sediment cores and Saharan land surface by simulating the mid-Holocene and pre-industrial dust cycle as a function of Saharan land surface cover and atmosphere-ocean conditions using the coupled atmosphere-aerosol model ECHAM6-HAM2.1. Mid-Holocene surface characteristics, including vegetation cover and lake surface area, are derived from proxy data and simulations.
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