Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)
Abstract
Amplification of the northern hemisphere seasonal cycle of insolation during the mid-Holocene causes a northward shift of the main regions of monsoon precipitation over Africa and India in all 18 simulations conducted for the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). Differences among simulations are related to differences in model formulation. Despite qualitative agreement with paleoecological estimates of biome shifts, the magnitude of the monsoon increases over northern Africa are underestimated by all the models.
- Publication:
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Geophysical Research Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 1999
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- Bibcode:
- 1999GeoRL..26..859J
- Keywords:
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- Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology;
- Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Numerical modeling and data assimilation;
- Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309)