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Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2
Anne Dallmeyer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Martin Claussen
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit (CEN),
Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Stephan J. Lorenz
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Michael Sigl
Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Matthew Toohey
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Ulrike Herzschuh
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of
Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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Using the comprehensive Earth system model, MPI-ESM1.2, we explore the global Holocene vegetation changes and interpret them in terms of the Holocene climate change. The model results reveal that most of the Holocene vegetation transitions seen outside the high northern latitudes can be attributed to modifications in the intensity of the global summer monsoons.
Using the comprehensive Earth system model, MPI-ESM1.2, we explore the global Holocene...
