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SUBMITTER: Bartlein PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5661745 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bartlein Patrick J PJ Harrison Sandy P SP Izumi Kenji K
Geophysical research letters 20170909 17
Climate model simulations uniformly show drier and warmer summers in the Eurasian midcontinent during the mid-Holocene, which is not consistent with paleoenvironmental observations. The simulated climate results from a reduction in the zonal temperature gradient, which weakens westerly flow and reduces moisture flux and precipitation in the midcontinent. As a result, sensible heating is favored over evaporation and latent heating, resulting in substantial surface-driven atmospheric warming. Thus ...[more]