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Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2303-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2303-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
Research article
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18 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 18 Oct 2022

Comparison of the green-to-desert Sahara transitions between the Holocene and the last interglacial

Huan Li, Hans Renssen, and Didier M. Roche

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In past warm periods, the Sahara region was covered by vegetation. In this paper we study transitions from this green state to the desert state we find today. For this purpose, we have used a global climate model coupled to a vegetation model to perform transient simulations. We analyzed the model results to assess the effect of vegetation shifts on the abruptness of the transition. We find that the vegetation feedback was more efficient during the last interglacial than during the Holocene.
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