Regional-scale palaeoclimate modelling on soft proxy-data basis — an example from the Upper Miocene of the Lower Rhine Embayment

Gebka, Michal; Mosbrugger, Volker; Schilling, Heinz-Dieter; Utescher, Torsten

doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(99)00039-5

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“…But, it is important to note that the results presented herein are in good agreement with the marine temperature curve provided by Kohnen (1995), and are even consistent with the cooler SST data of Buchardt (1978). In a climate modelling study of the Upper Miocene LRB, Gebka et al (1999) demonstrated that, given certain wind patterns, it is physically possible to have a Tertiary North Sea that is about 40 C cooler than the land.…”

Section: Comparison With Global and Regional Marine Datasupporting

confidence: 84%

“…How can sufficient energy be transported from the low latitudes to NW Germany, despite the fact that during the Neogene the English Channel, as a southwestward marine connection of the North Sea and the southern North Atlantic, did not exist? Additionally, there is evidence that the Gulf Stream had been significantly weaker in Neogene time and, consequently, less heat was transported to Northwest Europe by this mechanism than today (Gebka et al, 1999). The calculated precipitation data, which are very high throughout the Neogene, seem to suggest that the hydrological cycle and latent heat played a major role in this heat transfer.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Mosbrugger and Utescher, 1997 for details). The method also has been applied to Tertiary macro-and microfloras (Mosbrugger and Utescher, 1997;Bruch,1998;Gebka et al, 1999;Kohler, in press;Pross et al, in press).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Comparison With Global and Regional Marine Datasupporting

confidence: 84%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Terrestrial Climate Evolution in Northwest Germany over the Last 25 Million Years

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Ashraf³

2000

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“…Improved comparisons between model output and proxy data can be made by downscaling from the resolution of model output to the resolution of proxy data or through the application of regional climate Ž models e.g., Wilby et al, 1998;Sailor and Li, 1999;. Reichert et al, 1999;Gebka et al, 1999 . Unfortunately, the application of downscaling and regional modeling to paleoclimate investigations is in its infancy.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate sensitivity to changes in land surface characteristics

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“…It has been widely used to reconstruct the palaeoenvironments of Eurasia (e.g. Mosbrugger and Utescher 1997;Gebka et al 1999;Pross et al 2000;Bruch et al 2006;Böhme et al 2007;Erdei et al 2007;Yang et al 2007;Li et al 2009;Xia et al 2009;Yao et al 2009;Hao et al 2010;Grein et al 2011;Jacques et al 2011;Qin et al 2011;Quan et al 2011;Utescher et al 2014;Zhang et al 2016;Wu et al 2018), except for mountainous areas of China and the Himalaya. There are great complexities for palaeoclimate reconstructions in these high altitudinal regions as pointed out by previous studies (Mosbrugger and Utescher 1997;Song et al 2010;Grimm and Denk 2012;Zhang et al 2015), due to a variety of reasons.…”

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The complexity of climate reconstructions using the coexistence approach on Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Zhang

Cheng

et al. 2019

J. Palaeogeogr.

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Quantifying the palaeoclimates of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is vital for understanding the uplift history of plateau and the evolution of Asian monsoon since Cenozoic. Recently, the Coexistence Approach (CA) has been employed to reconstruct the palaeoelevation and palaeoclimate of the plateau by several studies. However, the application of CA in mountainous areas and the realism of climate reconstructions via this method are seldom discussed, although the complexity of reconstructions is speculated. Here we reevaluated the realism of climate reconstruction using the CA with modern pollen samples from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, and try to explore the possible factors influencing the precipitation and temperature reconstructions by CA. We suggest that the long-distance transport pollen as a result of the Asian summer monsoon potentially significantly affects the reconstructions both for precipitation and temperature. The precipitation complexly interacting with snowmelt and permafrost thaw leads to the discrepancy between the reconstructed precipitation and the real value. The response temperature for blossoming of dwarfed plants on the plateau is mostly likely higher than the air temperature (usually measured at 1.5 m above ground) due to energy flux or morphological adaptation of inflorescences during the growing season, causing the distortion of temperature reconstructions. Precipitation reconstruction is notoriously difficult as the establishers of CA have already suggested, but reconstructing the low temperatures may be even more challenging on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Though all of the explorations in current paper are in a qualitative way, it offers an inspiration of how appropriately interpret the disagreements between CA results and the observations, and of how to obtain a reasonable reconstruction of palaeoclimate of the plateau.

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Regional-scale palaeoclimate modelling on soft proxy-data basis — an example from the Upper Miocene of the Lower Rhine Embayment

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Terrestrial Climate Evolution in Northwest Germany over the Last 25 Million Years

Terrestrial Climate Evolution in Northwest Germany over the Last 25 Million Years

Climate sensitivity to changes in land surface characteristics

The complexity of climate reconstructions using the coexistence approach on Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

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