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Mid-Holocene European climate revisited: New high-resolution regional climate model simulations using pollen-based land-cover by Gustav Strandberg; Johan Lindström; Anneli Poska; Qiong Zhang; Ralph Fyfe; Esther Githumbi; Erik Kjellström; Florenze Mazier; Anne Birgitte Nielsen; Shinya Sugita; Anna-Kari Trondman; Jessie Woodbridge; Marie-José Gaillard is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

Land-cover changes have a clear impact on local climates via biophysical effects. European land cover has been affected by human activities for at least 6000 years, but possibly longer. It is thus highly probable that humans altered climate before the industrial revolution (AD1750e1850). In this study, climate and vegetation 6000 years (6 ka) ago is investigated using one global climate model, two regional climate models, one dynamical vegetation model, pollen-based reconstruction of past vegetation cover using a model of the pollen-vegetation relationship and a statistical model for spatial interpolation of the reconstructed land cover. This approach enables us to study 6 ka climate with potential natural and reconstructed land cover, and to determine how differences in land cover impact upon simulated climate. The use of two regional climate models enables us to discuss the robustness of the results. This is the first experiment with two regional climate models of simulated palaeo-climate based on regional climate models. Different estimates of 6 ka vegetation are constructed: simulated potential vegetation and reconstructed vegetation. Potential vegetation is the natural climate

Author

Gustav Strandberg; Johan Lindström; Anneli Poska; Qiong Zhang; Ralph Fyfe; Esther Githumbi; Erik Kjellström; Florenze Mazier; Anne Birgitte Nielsen; Shinya Sugita; Anna-Kari Trondman; Jessie Woodbridge; Marie-José Gaillard

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)