PMIP2 diagnostic for mid-Holocene precipitation over northern Africa

 

Description:

This dataset provides the latitudinal distribution of biomes (reconstructed at individual pollen sites) in northern Africa today and during the mid-Holocene (6000 ±500 yr B.P.) and the maximum and minimum estimates of the increase in precipitation (ΔP) required to support grassland at each latitude. As a model benchmark, the simulated change in ΔP is required to lie above/within the ΔP required to support grassland at all latitudes from 0-23° N.

Link to the dataset: 

  • Harrison, Sandy and Prentice, Iain Colin (2018): PMIP 2 diagnostic for mid-Holocene precipitation over northern Africa. University of Reading. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.17864/1947.176
References:
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  • Jolly, D., Prentice, I. C., Bonnefille, R., Ballouche, A., Bengo,  M., Brenac, P., Buchet, G., Burney, D., Cazet, J. P., Cheddadi, R.,  Edorh, T., Elenga, H., Elmoutaki, S., Guiot, J., Laarif, F., Lamb, H.,  Lezine, A. M., Maley, J., Mbenza, M., Peyron, O., Reille, M., Reynaud-Farrera, I., Riollet, G., Ritchie, J. C., Roche, E., Scott, L.,  Ssemmanda, I., Straka, H., Umer, M., Van Campo, E., Vilimumbalo, S.,  Vincens, A., and Waller, M. (1998b). Biome reconstruction from pollen  and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at 0  and 6000 years. Journal of Biogeography 25(6), 1007-1027.