{"id":373,"date":"2019-02-18T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/?p=373"},"modified":"2019-03-11T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T10:30:08","slug":"how-does-climate-change-in-semi-arid-spain-from-130000-years-ago-by-dongyang-wei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/how-does-climate-change-in-semi-arid-spain-from-130000-years-ago-by-dongyang-wei\/","title":{"rendered":"How does climate change in semi-arid Spain from 130,000 years ago? By Dongyang Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our paper “Climate changes in interior semi-arid Spain from the last interglacial to the late Holocene” is now online in Climate of the Past Discussions (https:\/\/www.clim-past-discuss.net\/cp-2019-16\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In this paper, we reconstruct the paleoclimate in semi-arid Spain since before the last interglacial, using the pollen record in El Ca\u00f1izar de Villarquemado. Modern pollen-climate relationships are used to reconstructed changes in seasonal temperatures and moisture conditions, accounting for CO2<\/sub> effects on plants. The reconstruction shows coherent climate changes on glacial-interglacial and orbital timescales. Although we focus on long-term changes in climate here, this record also shows millennial-scale changes corresponding to Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. We found that both summer insolation and abrupt climate changes contribute to temperature seasonality. The low glacial CO2<\/sub> means moisture changes are less extreme than suggested by the vegetation shifts and driven by evapotranspiration rather than rainfall changes. These results provide a detailed picture of the response of the western Mediterranean climate to external forcing for a long time and will be useful for the whole Mediterranean and Europe area.<\/p>\n

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Figure showing the reconstructed mean temperature of the coldest month (MTCO, \u00b0C), growing degree days above a base level of 0\u00b0 C (GDD0) and moisture index (the ratio of annual precipitation to annual potential evapotranspiration, MI).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our paper “Climate changes in interior semi-arid Spain from the last interglacial to the late Holocene” is now online in Climate of the Past Discussions (https:\/\/www.clim-past-discuss.net\/cp-2019-16\/). In this paper, we…Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[13,8,29,2],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-climate","tag-early-career","tag-pollen","tag-publication"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow does climate change in semi-arid Spain from 130,000 years ago? 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