NAmerica2k
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 16:37
Background
NorthAmerica2k is part of the PAGES 2k global network under Focus 2 “Regional Climate Dynamics” for the last two millennia. It comprises of a group of climate and paleoclimate experts entrusted to carry out the task of producing a high-resolution (at least decadal time scale) reconstruction of the key North American climate system components.
Objectives
- Identification of the key paleoclimate time series available
- Spatiotemporal reconstructions of key climatic parameters: surface air temperature, precipitation, sea surface temperature, air pressure (surface, 500 hPa)
- Validation of reconstructions through statistical methods; comparison with climate model simulations
- Climate model simulations High resolution, global models representing continental climate of the: PMIP simulations at the continental scale and simulations with regional models
