EGS XXVI General Assembly, Nice, France, March 2001

OA28.01 Study of past climates (co-sponsored by PC): Climate of the past millennium

Event Information

In the context of the detection and attribution of human influences on climate it is vital to assess the magnitude of natural climate variability. The instrumental record is relatively short and may be already contaminated by human influences. It is thus vital to gain as much information as possible about past climates and in the above context the last 1000 years is the most important. This symposium seeks presentations on proxy climatic reconstructions of this period on various timescales from interannual (eg from trees, historical records, ice cores, corals etc) to century ( eg from boreholes). Preference will be given to those attempting to integrate a number of different records together, particularly from different proxies, and attempts to improve understanding of what factors might have caused the variations seen in the millennium on the decadal-to-century timescale.

Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers

Co-Sponsorship