Pollen-based reconstructions of Holocene climate trends in the eastern Mediterranean region

Cruz-Silva, Esmeralda; Harrison, Sandy P.; Prentice, I. Colin; Marinova, Elena; Bartlein, Patrick J.; Renssen, Hans; Zhang, Yurui

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2093-2023

Articles | Volume 19, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2093-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2093-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 11

Research article

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01 Nov 2023

Research article |

| 01 Nov 2023

Pollen-based reconstructions of Holocene climate trends in the eastern Mediterranean region

Esmeralda Cruz-Silva, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice, Elena Marinova, Patrick J. Bartlein, Hans Renssen, and Yurui Zhang

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2093-2023-supplement

Data sets

EMBSeCBIO pollen database S. P. Harrison, E. Marinova, and E. Cruz-Silva https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.309

SPECIAL Modern Pollen Data Set for Climate Reconstructions S. P. Harrison https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.194

Model code and software

EMBSeCBIO_Holocene_climate: First release (0.1.0) E. Cruz-Silva https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10040708

Short summary

We examined 71 pollen records (12.3 ka to present) in the eastern Mediterranean, reconstructing climate changes. Over 9000 years, winters gradually warmed due to orbital factors. Summer temperatures peaked at 4.5–5 ka, likely declining because of ice sheets. Moisture increased post-11 kyr, remaining high from 10–6 kyr before a slow decrease. Climate models face challenges in replicating moisture transport.