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CL1.7 | Past vegetation dynamics and their impact on climate
EDI
Past vegetation dynamics and their impact on climate
Convener: Manuel Chevalier | Co-conveners: Anne Dallmeyer, Nils WeitzelECSECS, Anneli Poska
Changes in the global vegetation distribution not only affect the terrestrial carbon cycle but also influence the global climate by modifying the physical properties of the land surface and the strength of the interactions with the atmosphere. Understanding past, present and future vegetation dynamics and their role in the climate system are thus of utmost importance. The availability of large-scale vegetation reconstructions and the growing ability to perform long-term transient and sophisticated time-slice simulations with Earth system models now allow increasingly detailed analyses of the large-scale vegetation transitions in the past and their effect on climate. In this session, we want to discuss the latest developments at the interface between vegetation reconstructions, vegetation simulations, and data-model comparison tools.

We thus invite contributions to the broad theme of past vegetation dynamics and their interaction with climate. These include but are not limited to (a) vegetation simulations of various time intervals, (b) new large-scale data and reconstruction compilations, (c) data–model and inter–model comparison studies, (d) vegetation-climate dynamics inferred from models or compilations of vegetation records, (e) the influence of past land use and fire dynamics on vegetation and climate, and (f) progress in data–model comparison tools and techniques. Studies focusing on currently understudied regions are particularly welcome. This session is sponsored by the PalMod project (www.palmod.de).