Effects of land use and anthropogenic aerosol emissions in the Roman Empire

Gilgen, Anina; Wilkenskjeld, Stiig; Kaplan, Jed O.; Kühn, Thomas; Lohmann, Ulrike

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1885-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1885-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1885-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

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24 Oct 2019

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Effects of land use and anthropogenic aerosol emissions in the Roman Empire

Anina Gilgen, Stiig Wilkenskjeld, Jed O. Kaplan, Thomas Kühn, and Ulrike Lohmann

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Answers to reviewer 1', Anina Gilgen, 30 Aug 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Answers to reviewer 2', Anina Gilgen, 30 Aug 2019
AC3: 'New version of the paper', Anina Gilgen, 30 Aug 2019
AC4: 'Diff-File of the paper', Anina Gilgen, 30 Aug 2019
AC5: 'New supplementary material', Anina Gilgen, 30 Aug 2019
AC6: 'Diff-File of supplementary material', Anina Gilgen, 30 Aug 2019

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ED: Publish as is (13 Sep 2019) by Carlo Barbante

Short summary

Using the global aerosol–climate model ECHAM-HAM-SALSA, the effect of humans on European climate in the Roman Empire was quantified. Both land use and novel estimates of anthropogenic aerosol emissions were considered. We conducted simulations with fixed sea-surface temperatures to gain a first impression about the anthropogenic impact. While land use effects induced a regional warming for one of the reconstructions, aerosol emissions led to a cooling associated with aerosol–cloud interactions.