Simulating sub-Milankovitch climate variations associated with vegetation dynamics

Simulating sub-Milankovitch climate variations associated with vegetation dynamics

Climate variability at sub-Milankovitch periods (between 2 and 15 kyr) is studied in a set of transient simulations with a coupled atmosphere/ocean/vegetation model of intermediate complexity (CLIMBER-2). Focus is on the region influenced by the African and Asian summer monsoon. Pronounced variations at periods of about 10 kyr (Asia and Africa) and about 5 kyr (Asia) are found in the monsoonal ...

Simulating sub-Milankovitch climate variations

Simulating sub-Milankovitch climate variations associated with vegetation dynamics E. Tuenter, S. L. Weber, F. J. Hilgen, and L. J. Lourens Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands Received: 11 August 2006 – Accepted:...

Vegetation dynamics--simulating responses to climatic change.

A modelling approach to simulating vegetation dynamics is described, incorporating critical processes of carbon sequestration, growth, mortality and distribution. The model has been developed to investigate the responses of vegetation to environmental change, at time scales from days to centuries and from the local to the global scale. The model is outlined and subsequent tests, against indepen...

Terrestrial vegetation dynamics and global climate controls

Monthly data from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) and its predecessor satellite sensors was used to reconstruct vegetation dynamics in response to climate patterns over the period 1983–2005. Results suggest that plant growth over extensive land areas of southern Africa and Central Asia were the most closely coupled of any major land area to El Niño–southern oscillation...

Vegetation greenness and land carbon flux anomalies associated with climate 1 variations with a focus on the year 2015