Quantifying the effect of vegetation dynamics on the climate of the Last 
Glacial Maximum

Jahn, A.; Claussen, Martin; Ganopolski, Andrey; Brovkin, Victor

doi:10.5194/cp-1-1-2005

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Quantifying the effect of vegetation dynamics on the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum

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Jahn, A., Claussen, M., Ganopolski, A., & Brovkin, V. (2005). Quantifying the effect of vegetation dynamics on the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum. Climate of the Past, 1, 1-7. doi:10.5194/cp-1-1-2005.

引用: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-7352-6

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The importance of the biogeophysical atmosphere-vegetation feedback in comparison with the radiative effect of lower atmospheric CO(2) concentrations and the presence of ice sheets at the last glacial maximum (LGM) is investigated with the climate system model CLIMBER-2. Equilibrium experiments reveal that most of the global cooling at the LGM (-5.1 degrees C) relative to ( natural) present-day conditions is caused by the introduction of ice sheets into the model (-3.0 degrees C), followed by the effect of lower atmospheric CO(2) levels at the LGM (-1.5 degrees C), while a synergy between these two factors appears to be very small on global average. The biogeophysical effects of changes in vegetation cover are found to cool the global LGM climate by 0.6 degrees C. The latter are most pronounced in the northern high latitudes, where the taiga-tundra feedback causes annually averaged temperature changes of up to -2.0 degrees C, while the radiative effect of lower atmospheric CO(2) in this region only produces a cooling of 1.5 degrees C. Hence, in this region, the temperature changes caused by vegetation dynamics at the LGM exceed the cooling due to lower atmospheric CO(2) concentrations.