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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-773-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-773-2025
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10 Apr 2025
Research article |  | 10 Apr 2025

Pattern scaling of simulated vegetation change in northern Africa during glacial cycles

Mateo Duque-Villegas, Martin Claussen, Thomas Kleinen, Jürgen Bader, and Christian H. Reick

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We simulate the last glacial cycle with a comprehensive model of the Earth system and investigate vegetation cover change in northern Africa during the last four African Humid Periods (AHPs). We find a common pattern of vegetation change and relate it with climatic factors in order to discuss how vegetation might have evolved during even older AHPs. This scaling relationship we find according to past AHPs fails to account for projected changes in northern Africa under strong greenhouse gas warming.
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