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Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1595-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1595-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
Research article
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25 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2024

Dynamic interaction between lakes, climate, and vegetation across northern Africa during the mid-Holocene

Nora Farina Specht, Martin Claussen, and Thomas Kleinen

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We close the terrestrial water cycle across the Sahara and Sahel by integrating a new endorheic-lake model into a climate model. A factor analysis of mid-Holocene simulations shows that both dynamic lakes and dynamic vegetation individually contribute to a precipitation increase over northern Africa that is collectively greater than that caused by the interaction between lake and vegetation dynamics. Thus, the lake–vegetation interaction causes a relative drying response across the entire Sahel.
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