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Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1161-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1161-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
Research article
 | 
14 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 14 Jun 2021

The role of land cover in the climate of glacial Europe

Patricio Velasquez, Jed O. Kaplan, Martina Messmer, Patrick Ludwig, and Christoph C. Raible

Model code and software

A time-split nonhydrostatic atmospheric model for weather research and forecasting applications (http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/code_admin.php) W. C. Skamarock and J. B. Klemp https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.01.037

ARVE-Research/LPJ-LMfire: LPJ-LMfire J. O. Kaplan, M. Pfeiffer, and E. Chaste https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1184589

CDO User Guide (Version 1.9.6) U. Schulzweida https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2558193

The NCAR Command Language (Version 6.6.2) UCAR/NCAR/CISL/TDD https://doi.org/10.5065/D6WD3XH5

ARVE-Research/lpj2wrf: first release (Version v1.0.0) J. O. Kaplan https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4922199

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Short summary
This study assesses the importance of resolution and land–atmosphere feedbacks for European climate. We performed an asynchronously coupled experiment that combined a global climate model (~ 100 km), a regional climate model (18 km), and a dynamic vegetation model (18 km). Modelled climate and land cover agree reasonably well with independent reconstructions based on pollen and other paleoenvironmental proxies. The regional climate is significantly influenced by land cover.
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