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Zhengyao Lu
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Reconciling East Asia's mid-Holocene temperature discrepancy through vegetation-climate feedback
Författare
Summary, in English
The term “Holocene temperature conundrum” refers to the inconsistencies between proxy-based reconstructions and transient model simulations, and it challenges our understanding of global temperature evolution during the Holocene. Climate reconstructions indicate a cooling trend following the Holocene Thermal Maximum, while model simulations indicate a consistent warming trend due to ice-sheet retreat and rising greenhouse gas concentrations. Various factors, such as seasonal biases and overlooked feedback processes, have been proposed as potential causes for this discrepancy. In this study, we examined the impact of vegetation-climate feedback on the temperature anomaly patterns in East Asia during the mid-Holocene (∼6 ka). By utilizing the fully coupled Earth system model EC-Earth and performing simulations with and without coupled dynamic vegetation, our objective was to isolate the influence of vegetation changes on regional temperature patterns. Our findings reveal that vegetation-climate feedback contributed to warming across most of East Asia, resulting in spatially diverse temperature changes during the mid-Holocene and significantly improved model-data agreement. These results highlight the crucial role of vegetation-climate feedback in addressing the Holocene temperature conundrum and emphasize its importance for simulating accurate climate scenarios.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
- MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Publiceringsår
2024
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Science Bulletin
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Science China Press
Ämne
- Physical Geography
Nyckelord
- East Asia
- Holocene temperature conundrum
- Holocene Thermal Maximum
- Paleoclimate simulations
- Vegetation-climate feedback
Aktiv
Epub
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2095-9273