Carbon cycle, vegetation, and climate dynamics in the Holocene: Experiments with the CLIMBER-2 model

• Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
• Main Authors: Brovkin, V., Bendtsen, J., Claussen, M., Ganopolski, A., Kubatzki, C., Petoukhov, V., Andreev, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Taylor Dome; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-A874-1; http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-A876-E

Multiple proxy data reveal that the early to middle Holocene (ca. 8-6 kyr B. P.) was warmer than the preindustrial period in most regions of the Northern Hemisphere. This warming is presumably explained by the higher summer insolation in the Northern Hemisphere, owing to changes in the orbital param...