Pound, MJ, Tindall, J orcid.org/0000-0002-2360-5761, Pickering, SJ et al. (3 more authors) (2014) Late Pliocene lakes and soils: a global data set for the analysis of climate feedbacks in a warmer world. Climate of the Past, 10 (1). pp. 167-180. ISSN 1814-9324
Abstract
The global distribution of late Pliocene soils and lakes has been reconstructed using a synthesis of geological data. These reconstructions are then used as boundary conditions for the Hadley Centre General Circulation Model (HadCM3) and the BIOME4 mechanistic vegetation model. By combining our novel soil and lake reconstructions with a fully coupled climate model we are able to explore the feedbacks of soils and lakes on the climate of the late Pliocene. Our experiments reveal regionally confined changes of local climate and vegetation in response to the new boundary conditions. The addition of late Pliocene soils has the largest influence on surface air temperatures, with notable increases in Australia, the southern part of northern Africa and in Asia. The inclusion of late Pliocene lakes increases precipitation in central Africa and at the locations of lakes in the Northern Hemisphere. When combined, the feedbacks on climate from late Pliocene lakes and soils improve the data to model fit in western North America and the southern part of northern Africa.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Author(s) 2014. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 License. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Earth Surface Science Institute (ESSI) (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst for Climate & Atmos Science (ICAS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2014 13:26 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2019 15:03 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-167-2014 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Copernicus Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.5194/cp-10-167-2014 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:80024 |