{"id":584,"date":"2019-11-19T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/?p=584"},"modified":"2019-11-19T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:08:48","slug":"pmip2_diagnostic_mh_precip_africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/pmip2_diagnostic_mh_precip_africa\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">PMIP2 diagnostic for mid-Holocene precipitation over northern Africa<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-269 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/Unorganized\/diag_mh_pr_na.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/Unorganized\/diag_mh_pr_na.jpg 648w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/Unorganized\/diag_mh_pr_na-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"rd_text_center\">This dataset provides the latitudinal distribution of biomes (reconstructed at individual pollen sites) in northern Africa today and during the mid-Holocene (6000 \u00b1500 yr B.P.) and the maximum and minimum estimates of the increase in precipitation (\u0394P) required to support grassland at each latitude. As a model benchmark, the simulated change in \u0394P is required to lie above\/within the \u0394P required to support grassland at all latitudes from 0-23\u00b0 N.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to the dataset:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"person orcid-person\"><span class=\"person_name\">Harrison, Sandy<\/span> <\/span> and <span class=\"person orcid-person\"><span class=\"person_name\">Prentice, Iain Colin<\/span><\/span> (2018): PMIP 2 diagnostic for mid-Holocene precipitation over northern Africa. University of Reading. Dataset. <a class=\"customize-unpreviewable\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.176<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>References:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Joussaume, S., Taylor, K. E., Braconnot, P., Mitchell, J. F. B.,\u00a0 Kutzbach, J. E., Harrison, S. P., Prentice, I. C., Broccoli, A. J.,\u00a0 Abe-Ouchi, A., Bartlein, P. J., Bonfils, C., Dong, B., Guiot, J.,\u00a0 Herterich, K., Hewitt, C. D., Jolly, D., Kim, J. W., Kislov, A., Kitoh,\u00a0 A., Loutre, M. F., Masson, V., McAvaney, B., McFarlane, N., de Noblet,\u00a0 N., Peltier, W. R., Peterschmitt, J. Y., Pollard, D., Rind, D., Royer, J. F., Schlesinger, M. E., Syktus, J., Thompson, S., Valdes, P.,\u00a0 Vettoretti, G., Webb, R. S., and Wyputta, U. (1999). Monsoon changes\u00a0 for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate\u00a0 Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). Geophysical Research Letters\u00a0 26(7), 859-862.<\/li>\n<li>Haxeltine,\u00a0 A., and Prentice, I. C. (1996). BIOME3: An equilibrium terrestrial biosphere model based on ecophysiological constraints, resource availability, and competition among plant functional types. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10(4), 693-709.<\/li>\n<li>Jolly, D., Harrison, S. P., Damnati, B., and Bonnefille, R.\u00a0 (1998a). Simulated climate and biomes of Africa during the Late\u00a0 Quaternary: Comparison with pollen and lake status data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17(6-7), 629-657.<\/li>\n<li>Jolly, D., Prentice, I. C., Bonnefille, R., Ballouche, A., Bengo,\u00a0 M., Brenac, P., Buchet, G., Burney, D., Cazet, J. P., Cheddadi, R.,\u00a0 Edorh, T., Elenga, H., Elmoutaki, S., Guiot, J., Laarif, F., Lamb, H.,\u00a0 Lezine, A. M., Maley, J., Mbenza, M., Peyron, O., Reille, M., Reynaud-Farrera, I., Riollet, G., Ritchie, J. C., Roche, E., Scott, L.,\u00a0 Ssemmanda, I., Straka, H., Umer, M., Van Campo, E., Vilimumbalo, S.,\u00a0 Vincens, A., and Waller, M. (1998b). Biome reconstruction from pollen\u00a0 and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at 0\u00a0 and 6000 years. Journal of Biogeography 25(6), 1007-1027.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PMIP2 diagnostic for mid-Holocene precipitation over northern Africa &nbsp; Description: This dataset provides the latitudinal distribution of biomes (reconstructed at individual pollen sites) in northern Africa today and during the&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#112;&#97;&#108;&#97;&#101;&#111;&#99;&#108;&#105;&#109;&#97;&#116;&#101;&#47;&#112;&#109;&#105;&#112;&#50;&#95;&#100;&#105;&#97;&#103;&#110;&#111;&#115;&#116;&#105;&#99;&#95;&#109;&#104;&#95;&#112;&#114;&#101;&#99;&#105;&#112;&#95;&#97;&#102;&#114;&#105;&#99;&#97;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":183,"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":[43],"tags":[50,55,52,46],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-benchmarking","tag-biome-reconstruction","tag-database","tag-resources"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>- SPECIAL Palaeoclimate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/pmip2_diagnostic_mh_precip_africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"- SPECIAL Palaeoclimate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PMIP2 diagnostic for mid-Holocene precipitation over northern Africa &nbsp; 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