Holocene climates of the Iberian Peninsula: pollen-based reconstructions of changes in the west–east  gradient of temperature and moisture

Liu, Mengmeng; Shen, Yicheng; González-Sampériz, Penelope; Gil-Romera, Graciela; ter Braak, Cajo J. F.; Prentice, Iain Colin; Harrison, Sandy P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-803-2023

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-803-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-803-2023

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

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

Research article

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05 Apr 2023

Research article |

| 05 Apr 2023

Holocene climates of the Iberian Peninsula: pollen-based reconstructions of changes in the west–east gradient of temperature and moisture

Mengmeng Liu, Yicheng Shen, Penelope González-Sampériz, Graciela Gil-Romera, Cajo J. F. ter Braak, Iain Colin Prentice, and Sandy P. Harrison

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-803-2023-supplement

Data sets

Pollen data and charcoal data of the Iberian Peninsula (version 3) S. Harrison, Y. Shen, and L. Sweeney https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000369

Model code and software

v0.0.0 ml4418/Iberia-paper: Iberia climate reconstructions M. Liu https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7714294

Short summary

We reconstructed the Holocene climates in the Iberian Peninsula using a large pollen data set and found that the west–east moisture gradient was much flatter than today. We also found that the winter was much colder, which can be expected from the low winter insolation during the Holocene. However, summer temperature did not follow the trend of summer insolation, instead, it was strongly correlated with moisture.