Comparison of modeled and reconstructed changes in forest cover through the past 8000 years: Eurasian perspective

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 723-734

  Kleinen, Thomas ^a   Tarasov, Pavel ^b   Brovkin, Victor ^a   Andreev, Andrei ^c   Stebich, Martina ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data model comparison; Holocene; Model simulations; Northern and southern treeline; Pollen; Precipitation; Summer temperature; Woody cover

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST COVER; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; TREELINE;

CHINA; EIFEL; GERMANY; KAZAKHSTAN; MONGOLIA; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

EID: 79960874167     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610386980     Document Type: Article

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