The terrestrial biosphere exerts a substantial influence on the climate system. Our work attempts to understand how interaction between the land surface and the atmosphere are related to abrupt changes in climate during the Holocene.
Publications
Wang Y, M Notaro, Z Liu, R Gallimore, S Levis, and JE Kutzbach. 2008. "Detecting vegetation-precipitation feedbacks in mid-Holocene North Africa from two climate models." Climate of the Past 4(1):59-67.
Notaro M, Y Wang, Z Liu, R Gallimore, and S Levis. 2008. "Combined statistical and dynamical assessment of simulated vegetation-rainfall in North Africa during the mid-Holocene*." Global Change Biology 14(2):347-368. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01495.x
Liu, Z, Y Wang,R Gallimore, F. Gasse, T Johnson, P Demenocal, J Adkins, M Notaro, IC Prentice, J Kutzbach, R Jacob, P Behling, L Wang, and E Ong. 2007. "Simulating the transient evolution and abrupt change of Northern Africa atmosphere-ocean-terrestrial ecosystem in the Holocene." Quaternary Science Reviews (26)13-14:1818-1837. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.03.002.
2006
Liu, Z, Y Wang, R Gallimore, M Notaro, and IC Prentice. 2006. "On the caus of abrupt vegetation collapse in North Africa during the Holocene: Climate variability vs. vegetation feedback." Geophysical Research Letters 33:Art.no. L22709. doi: 10.1029/2006GL028062
2005
Wang, Y, and LA Mysak. 2005. "Response of the ocean, climate and terrestria carbon cycle to Holocene freshwater discharge after 8 kyr BP." Geophysical Research Letters 32:Art.no. L15705. doi: 10.1029/2005GL023344
Wang, Y, LA Mysak, and NT Roulet. 2005. "Holocene climate and carbon cycle dynamics: Experiments with the 'green' McGill Paleoclimate Model." Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19:Art.no. GB3022. doi: 10.1029/2005GB002484
Wang, Y, LA Mysak, Z Wang, and V Brovkin. 2005a. "The greening of the McGill Paleoclimate Model. Part I: Improved land surface scheme with vegetation dynamics." Climate Dynamics 24(5):469-480. doi: 10.1007/s00382-004-0515-9
Wang, Y, LA Mysak, Z Wang, and V Brovkin. 2005b. "The greening of the McGill Paleoclimate Model. Part II: Simulation of Holocene millennial-scale natural climate changes." Climate Dynamics 24(5): 481-496. doi: 10.1007/s00382-004-0516-8