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News and Highlights

PAGES/CLIVAR Workshop: Reducing and Representing Uncertainties in High Resolution Proxy Climate Data - 09 - 11 June 2008, Trieste, Italy

Download the workshop report:

Cobb et al. (2008): Representing and Reducing Uncertainties in High Resolution Proxy Climate Data

The primary goals of this workshop were to:
1. Identify the main sources of uncertainty in the different types of proxy data.
2. Make recommendations for how to better represent proxy error to non-specialists.
3. Develop strategies for reducing uncertainties associated with each proxy type.
4. Develop internationally coordinated strategy for re-sampling existing key proxy sites and sampling key new sites for each climate proxy.

The following proxy-specific White Papers from the workshop 2008 available here:

-Corals - K. Cobb, J. Cole, J. Lough and S. Tudhope
-Documentary - C. Pfister, J. Luterbacher, H. Wanner, D. Wheeler, R. Brazdil, Q. Ge, A. Moberg, S. Grab and M. Rosario del Prieto
-Ice cores - E.J. Steig
-Tree rings - K. Briffa and E. Cook
-Speleothems - D. Fleitmann, P. Treble, F. Cruz Jr, J. Cole and K. Cobb
-Lake sediments

Download the agenda here.

Fourth Session of the CLIVAR/PAGES Working Group - 12 June 2008, Trieste, Italy

Other relevant information

The latest issue of PAGES newsletter - Vol. 16, No. 1 - with a special section on paleoceanography - is now available to download in high or low resolution here.

Vision document of the CLIVAR/PAGES Working Group addresses key scientific and implementation issues.

Book Available Online:

Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future
Edited by Keith Alverson, Raymond Bradley, Thomas Pedersen
Springer Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany

The complete book is available here.

North Greenland ice core suggests interglacial conditions 123 000 years ago.

EPICA ice core reveals Antartic climate records back to 740 000 years ago.

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last updated Thu, Mar 26, 2009 by Anna Pirani