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Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1035-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1035-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
Research article
 | 
13 May 2022
Research article |  | 13 May 2022

Simulated range of mid-Holocene precipitation changes from extended lakes and wetlands over North Africa

Nora Farina Specht, Martin Claussen, and Thomas Kleinen

Data sets

Mid-Holocene land-surface conditions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: A data set for the analysis of biogeophysical feedbacks in the climate system P. Hoelzmann, D. Jolly, S. P. Harrison, F. Laarif, R. Bonnefille, and H.-J. Pachur https://doi.org/10.1029/97GB02733

African 6K Land Surface Conditions, IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 98-012 P. Hoelzmann, D. Jolly, S. P. Harrison, F. Laarif, R. Bonnefille, and H.-J. Pachur https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/pollen/africa6k

Impact of vegetation and preferential source areas on global dust aerosol: Results from a model study I. Tegen, S. P. Harrison, K. Kohfeld, I. C. Prentice, M. Coe, and M. Heimann https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JD000963

Data for publication 'Rapid increase in simulated North Atlantic dust deposition due to fast change of northwest African landscape during the Holocene' S. Egerer https://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/cerasearch/entry?acronym=DKRZ_LTA_060_ds00002

Rapid increase in simulated North Atlantic dust deposition due to fast change of northwest African landscape during the Holocene S. Egerer, M. Claussen, and C. Reick https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1051-2018

Simulated range of mid-Holocene precipitation changes from extended lakes and wetlands over North Africa N. F. Specht, M. Claussen, and T. Kleinen http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-63B5-B

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Palaeoenvironmental records only provide a fragmentary picture of the lake and wetland extent in North Africa during the mid-Holocene. Therefore, we investigate the possible range of mid-Holocene precipitation changes caused by an estimated small and maximum lake extent and a maximum wetland extent. Results show a particularly strong monsoon precipitation response to lakes and wetlands over the Western Sahara and an increased monsoon precipitation when replacing lakes with vegetated wetlands.
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