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The South American monsoon variability over the last millennium in climate models
Maisa Rojas
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Millennium Nucleus PaleoClimate, Santiago, Chile
Paola A. Arias
Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Grupo de Ingeniería Gestión Ambiental (GIGA), Escuela Ambiental, Facultad de
Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Valentina Flores-Aqueveque
Millennium Nucleus PaleoClimate, Santiago, Chile
Anji Seth
Department of Geography, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Mathias Vuille
Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany,
State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA
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Short summary
Recent work shows that during the most prominent climate anomalies during the last millennium, the Medieval Climate Anomaly (ca. 950–1250) and the Little Ice Age (ca. 1450–1850), the South American monsoon system (SAMS) was drier and wetter, respectively. We investigate if this variability in the SAMS is reproduced in the latest set of climate simulations that cover these periods. Despite weak forcing, through analysis of the large-scale circulation we find this signal in the models.
Recent work shows that during the most prominent climate anomalies during the last millennium,...
