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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