1053: CRC 1211 - A03: Statistical-dynamical modelling of Aeolian processes in the Atacama Desert over geological time scales and their implications to life at the dry limit

Principal investigator: Cong Jiang

Universität zu Köln, Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 7/2017 to 6/2018
Report 7/2018 to 6/2019
Report 7/2019 to 6/2020
Report 7/2021 to 6/2022
Report 7/2022 to 6/2023

Publications

• DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-112, Reyers, M., Fiedler, S., Ludwig, P., and Shao, Y.: What caused the increased rainfall during the Pliocene in today’s hyper-arid Atacama Desert?, EMS Annual Meeting 2022, Bonn, Germany, 5–9 Sep 2022, EMS2022-112, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2022-112, 2022.
• DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-517-2023, Reyers, M., Fiedler, S., Ludwig, P., Böhm, C., Wennrich, V., & Shao, Y. (2023). On the importance of moisture conveyor belts from the tropical eastern Pacific for wetter conditions in the Atacama Desert during the mid-Pliocene. Climate of the Past, 19(2), 517–532. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-517-2023
• Reyers M, Hamidi M, Shao Y. Synoptic analysis and simulation of an unusual dust event over the Atacama Desert. Atmos Sci Lett. 2019;e899. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.899