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25.10.2017 - 27.10.2017
Seminar

Climate Variability Across Scales (CVAS): Understanding and modeling space-time Holocene climate variability

Understanding natural climate variability is a necessary prerequisite for predicting the range of plausible future climates. The Holocene is a reasonable reference period with conditions similar to the present, a large amount of existing paleo-observations and relatively well-constrained boundary conditions and climate forcings.
The first CVAS workshop identified an existing knowledge gap regarding the scaling regimes of climate variability during the Holocene and the associated differences between tropics, extratropics and polar regions, as well as between land and ocean. Addressing these aspects will allow us to characterize Holocene climate variability in both space and time and the issue of Holocene climate (in)stability. This will improve our understanding of key processes and climate mechanisms and allow for a better understanding of their role in the Anthropocene.
This second CVAS workshop will focus on the aforementioned questions by bringing together experts working on Holocene climate variability from three different perspectives: data acquisition and interpretation, time series analysis methodology, and theoretical climatology and climate modeling. It will comprise plenary talks introducing the state of the art of different fields, extended meetings of the three subgroups of experts and panel discussions bringing about insights and ideas from the individual subgroups to the other participants.