PAGES - Past Global Changes

IPCC AR6 and COVID-19

Details: Published: Monday, 30 March 2020 16:33

Survey deadline 3 April

The IPCC Working Group I (WGI) Technical Support Unit (TSU) would like to solicit the research community's views regarding how the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is impacting the international research and how the community will be able to contribute to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Cycle (AR6).

The deadline for papers to be accepted for publication that can be cited in the Final Draft of the WGI Report is 30 September 2020.

The WGI TSU, and the IPCC more broadly, is investigating whether the COVID-19 outbreak could have any negative impacts on the IPCC AR6.

The WGI TSU would be grateful if you could spare five minutes to complete the following survey by 3 April.

Click 'Read more' for helpful information on how to review the paleo content in the AR6 Second-Order Draft. Register by 19 April.

OSM sessions due 1 April

Details: Published: Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:52

PAGES' 6th Open Science Meeting (OSM) will take place from 18-22 May 2021 in Agadir, Morocco.

The Scientific Program Committee (SPC) invites you to take an active part in organizing the scientific program of the conference. The OSM program will be comprised of plenary, parallel and poster sessions.

Submit your session proposal by 1 April!

The plenary sessions will host keynote talks intended to stimulate discussions on the role of past global change science by providing information about strategies for a sustainable world, on the engagement of stakeholders in active cutting-edge research, and on the added value of interdisciplinary approaches. The parallel and associated poster sessions will accommodate top-level ongoing research.

Climate variability paper

Details: Published: Tuesday, 24 March 2020 13:59

Climate variables are related over long times and large distances. This shows up as correlations for averages on long intervals or between distant areas. An important finding is that the majority of correlations in climate can be described by a simple mathematical relationship.

Authors, led by Christian Franzke, present such correlations for temperature on long times in their recent paper "The Structure of Climate Variability Across Scales", now available in Reviews of Geophysics.

Find out more about the CVAS working group, which is now in its second phase, and how you can be involved, here.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:08

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.

Highlights include the 1 April deadline for session proposals for PAGES 6th Open Science Meeting, extensive PAGES working group news and products, including information on cancelled meetings and workshops, ECN updates, Future Earth and WCRP information, and other opportunities.

GPWG2 fire policy issue brief

Details: Published: Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:24

PAGES' parent organization Future Earth has published an article about the recent Global Paleofire Working Group 2 Policy Brief.

While the area burnt by wildfires has declined globally over the past decades, fire is now occurring more frequently and severely in ecosystems that have historically rarely experienced fire. This issue brief examines the cause and sustainability implications of global fires. Access the Future Earth article here.

Access the GPWG2 Policy Brief, by Daniele Colombaroli et al., here.

Find out more about GPWG2, now a former working group, here.

Paleo contents, IPCC AR6 SOD

Details: Published: Tuesday, 03 March 2020 14:23

Download the paleo content Table of Contents (excel file; 26.1 KB) here.

The Second-Order Draft (SOD) of the Working Group 1 (WG1) contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6) is now open for review.

To facilitate a robust review of the paleoscience information, which is integrated throughout the report, a comprehensive list of the paleoscience contents is now available here. It was assembled by Darrell Kaufman with help from members of PAGES' Early-Career Network (ECN) and students at Northern Arizona University, USA.

Community feedback is needed to focus the key messages from paleosciences and to assure that the report presents the most current, comprehensive, and balanced treatment of the policy-relevant topics.

New Varves special issue

Details: Published: Tuesday, 03 March 2020 12:53

Seven papers are now available in a Quaternary special issue organized by the PAGES-endorsed Varves Working Group.

Edited by Bernd Zolitschka and Wojciech Tylmann, the special issue aims to present the diversity within the field and the state-of-the-art research on lake varves at all timescales and environments.

The papers are:

> Annually Laminated Lake Sediments—Recent Progress (Tylmann W and Zolitschka B)

> Modern Analogue Approach Applied to High-Resolution Varved Sediments—A Synthesis for Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees) (Vegas-Vilarrubia T et al.)

> Varve Distribution Reveals Spatiotemporal Hypolimnetic Hypoxia Oscillations During the Past 200 Years in Lake Lehmilampi, Eastern Finland (Salminen S et al.)