PAGES/CLIVAR - Use of paleo-climate simulations and data to constrain future projections

Dates:
01.03 - 03.03.12
Place:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Address:
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Contact person:
Gavin Schmidt

Additional Information

This is a workshop of the PAGES-CLIVAR Intersection Panel.

For the first time, coordination between PMIP/PAGES and WGCM/CLIVAR has lead to a joint database of paleo-climate, historical and future simulations using the same models, same protocols and same diagnostics (PMIP3/CMIP5). This allows for a greatly enhanced possibility of using model-data comparisons from paleo-climate to weight or constrain model projections for the future, using the 'out-of-sample' nature of paleo-climate changes (specifically, during the last glacial maximum, the last millennium and the mid-Holocene).

This workshop should be a great opportunity to bring together paleo specialists, modellers, modern observations and statistical analysts to maximise the utility of these comparisons in time for the next IPCC report (due 2013).  Having this workshop at the same time/place as the WGCM meeting should maximise attendance, minimise costs and allow for the maximum amount of overlap between the communities – which is the principal goal of the Intersection Panel.

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