Session Details

To gain regional climate information and to match the increasing resolution of Earth System Models (ESMs), it is now an essential task to improve the quality and resolution of proxy- based reconstructions of past climates. PAGES has developed the Regional 2k Network with the aim to obtain detailed climate reconstructions with worldwide coverage. For eight continental regions (including the Arctic/Antarctic area and the ocean regions adjacent to the reconstruction territories), the best time series and spatial reconstructions of important state variables of the climate system (e.g., surface and 500 hPa geopotential, temperature and precipitation) are analyzed in combination with the best ensemble runs of the existing ESMs. This session invites papers that highlight new, high-resolution, quantitative records of regional climate of the last 2000 years, addressing questions such as “How did the main patterns and modes of climate variability operate on sub-decadal to orbital timescales?” “How does climate variability and extreme events relate to important primary forcing factors, namely orbital, solar and volcanic” and “What feedbacks operated to modulate the climate response?”. This session also encourages the submission of methodological-based papers, such as those focusing on reconstruction methods and data-model comparison.