High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

This review of late-Holocene palaeoclimatology represents the results from a PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Panel meeting that took place in June 2006. The review is in three parts: the principal high-resolution proxy disciplines (trees, corals, ice cores and documentary evidence), emphasizing current issues in their use for climate reconstruction; the various approaches that have been adopted to combine multiple climate proxy records to provide estimates of past annual-to-decadal timescale Northern Hemisphere surface temperatures and other climate variables, such as large-scale circulation indices; and the forcing histories used in climate model simulations of the past millennium. We discuss the need to develop a…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Award: 0542356
• UD
  U.S. Department of Energy

  Awards: DE-FG02-, DE-FG02
• EP
  Electric Power Research Institute
• PG
  Past Global Changes
• AG
  Australian Government
• OO
  Office of Science
• NE
  Natural Environment Research Council