Increases in vegetation influenced past temperatures

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk672

Keywords:

Climate modeling, climate change, Holocene paleoclimate, global temperature, vegetation

Abstract

Better representation of Northern Hemisphere vegetation may resolve a scientific debate over how global temperatures changed during the past 12,000 years. Our new climate model experiments that include these vegetation changes exhibit a peak in global temperature around 6,000 years ago. This peak agrees well with previous studies using paleoclimate archives to reconstruct past temperatures.

Author Biography

Alexander James Thompson, Washington University in St. Louis

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Original article reference

Thompson, A. J., Zhu, J., Poulsen, C. J., Tierney, J. E., & Skinner, C. B. (2022). Northern Hemisphere vegetation change drives a Holocene thermal maximum. Science Advances, 8(15). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj6535

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Published

2023-02-01

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): TheScienceBreaker

Section

Earth & Space

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