Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-175-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-175-2015
Research article
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06 Feb 2015
Research article |  | 06 Feb 2015

North African vegetation–precipitation feedback in early and mid-Holocene climate simulations with CCSM3-DGVM

R. Rachmayani, M. Prange, and M. Schulz

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The role of vegetation-precipitation feedbacks in modifying the North African rainfall response to enhanced early to mid-Holocene summer insolation is analysed using the climate-vegetation model CCSM3-DGVM. Dynamic vegetation amplifies the positive early to mid-Holocene summer precipitation anomaly by ca. 20% in the Sahara-Sahel region. The primary vegetation feedback operates through surface latent heat flux anomalies by canopy evapotranspiration and their effect on the African easterly jet.