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Model experiment description paper
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02 Mar 2020
Model experiment description paper |
| 02 Mar 2020
| 02 Mar 2020
Development and testing scenarios for implementing land use and land cover changes during the Holocene in Earth system model experiments
Sandy P. Harrison
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Marie-José Gaillard
Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
Benjamin D. Stocker
Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Marc Vander Linden
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Kees Klein Goldewijk
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the Hague, the
Netherlands
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Oliver Boles
University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Pascale Braconnot
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Andria Dawson
Department of General Education, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
Etienne Fluet-Chouinard
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Jed O. Kaplan
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Thomas Kastner
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Francesco S. R. Pausata
Centre ESCER, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Erick Robinson
Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
Nicki J. Whitehouse
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Marco Madella
Department of Humanities (CaSEs), University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
ICREA Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Kathleen D. Morrison
University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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Short summary
The Past Global Changes LandCover6k initiative will use archaeological records to refine scenarios of land use and land cover change through the Holocene to reduce the uncertainties about the impacts of human-induced changes before widespread industrialization. We describe how archaeological data are used to map land use change and how the maps can be evaluated using independent palaeoenvironmental data. We propose simulations to test land use and land cover change impacts on past climates.
The Past Global Changes LandCover6k initiative will use archaeological records to refine...
