This workshop will be the fourth meeting of the PAGES Aus2k Working Group. It will build on the progress made by the Aus2k community and also produce several key products that will allow us to assess the current status of the project and develop strategic coordination of current and future research activities by the group.
Topic of workshop
The Australasian (Aus2k) Working Group is currently supporting the wider goals of the second phase of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) 2k initiative to undertake reconstructions of global climate fields for the last two millennia: PAGES 2k Network.
Recent efforts have seen an expansion of the Aus2k database to include non-annually resolved data, new data selection criteria, and critical evaluation of proxy archives using modern climate data for calibration. That effort has now opened new horizons for multi proxy synthesis techniques, the generation of new simulations of the last 2000 years using state-of-the-art climate models, and palaeoclimate data-model comparisons.
This workshop will focus on progress for key developments the Aus2k initiative, and will include overviews of:
1. Synthesis and comparison of annually and non-anually resolved palaeoclimate data within the Australasian region;
2. Results from projects focused on inter-comparison of climate field reconstructions undertaken as multi-institutional efforts; and
3. Comparison of climate reconstructions with paleoclimate model simulations.
The workshop also seeks to strengthen ties between the PAGES Aus2k and Ocean2k working groups (Ocean2k).
We invite interested researchers to submit an abstract for inclusion in this workshop. There will be a poster session to accommodate a range of research.
Confirmed speakers include
Mandy Freund: Progress on developing a temperature spatial field reconstruction for Australia over the past millennium
Steven Phipps: Reconstruction of climate fields for the Australasian region using data assimilation
Drew Lorrey: Multiproxy climate reconstruction for the South Pacific and Southern Hemisphere from a New Zealand perspective
Nerilie Abram: Comparison of coral, speleothem and ice core records from Australasia and Antarctica
Bronwyn Dixon: Spatial and temporal coverage of archives of climate and environmental change in Australia
Ben Henley: A Pacific-basin wide reconstruction of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
Duncan Ackerley: New, high-resolution simulations of the past 2000 years conducted using the ACCESS climate system model
Helen McGregor: A global synthesis of low-resolution SST reconstructions spanning the past 2000 years
Paul Augustinus: High-resolution maar crater records of Auckland
Marcus Vandergoes: The Lake Ohau palaeoclimate reconstruction project
Publication opportunity
A special issue of Climate of the Past collating the research from this workshop is anticipated, with the prospect that several papers may be asked to join the global PAGES 2k special issue of Climate of the Past in 2016.
Venue
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
41 Market Place
Viaduct Harbour
Auckland, New Zealand
To register
Please find the abstract submission form here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19ORN4GjPpK6lQVc-Wj68ZPbe-SPKnTQ3spZ0TXtJgl8/viewform?edit_requested=true
Note that abstract submission will remain open until 15 August 2015.
The PAGES IPO has provided limited support for New Zealand and Australian researchers to attend this workshop, and applicants will be assessed during the abstract submission process.
Post-meeting update
Aus2k workshop participants
Duncan Ackerley, Monash University
Suman Asadusjjaman, University of Canberra
Stuart Browning, Macquarie University
Bronwyn Dixon, University of Melbourne
Mandy Freund, University of Melbourne
Ian Goodwin, Macquarie University
Hamish McGowan, University of Queensland
Helen McGregor, University of Wollongong