In a recent study in Environmental Research Letters, members of our Asia2k working group (Zhang et al.) address modified climate with long term memory in tree ring proxies.
PAGES was delighted to host Australian scientist Joëlle Gergis during September. Joëlle, a Climate Research Fellow from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, is Chair of PAGES’ Aus2k Working Group.
While busy preparing for the upcoming Aus2k workshop in New Zealand, Joëlle also worked on a global drought project during her time in Bern.
A recent 2k Network paper by Wang et al. explores different techniques for climate field reconstructions (CFRs). This came out of the PAGES-supported April 2014 meeting on CFRs in the USA.
Read about the latest PAGES news, meetings, and opportunities around the world in this month's e-news.
Members of PAGES have just published a special issue in Anthropocene on the important challenge of quantifying past human-environment interactions.
A diverse range of topics, timescales, and environments are addressed, highlighting the broad interdisciplinary cooperation required to bridge the natural sciences and humanities in order to integrate socio-cultural data with biophysical data to improve quantitative reconstructions.
This volume emerged out of a PAGES-supported meeting held in Leuven, Belgium, 3–7 February 2014
In this Future Earth blog piece, Ocean2k Working Group leader, Mike Evans, describes the group's four-year virtual collaboration over 18 time zones and four hemispheres, and why they decided to do it that way.
Our new working group, PlioVAR, will investigate climate variability in the Pliocene, an epoch around 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago that was similar in many respects to our current, or near-future predicted climate state. PlioVAR will synthesize terrestrial and marine data in order to understand the spatial and temporal climate variability at the time as well as the forcings and feedbacks that influenced it, and hopefully obtain valuable insights into the behaviour of the climate system under similar forcings and feedbacks as we might experience in the years to come.
