Climate Forcing and Change of the Last 1000 Years

Overview

An overarching goal of our research is to understand the extent to which the climate change of the last century is due to human and/or natural (e.g., solar and volcanic) forcing. Our research strategies include: 1) collection of new multi-century-long records (both forcing and response [multi-proxy]); 2) synthesis of new and existing records; and 3) 3-D climate modeling. Focus is global.

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This topic relates to all other research foci (back to main research page).

Related Outside Links

NOAA Paleo Global Warming

Present and Recent Collaborators

J. Cole, R. Healy, K. Hughen, M. Mann, D. Rind, A. Robertson

Funding Agencies

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Science Foundation

References

Mann, M.E., C.M. Ammann, R.S. Bradley, K.R. Briffa, T.J. Crowley, M.K. Hughes, P.D. Jones, M. Oppenheimer, T.J. Osborn, J.T. Overpeck, S. Rutherford, K.E. Trenberth, and T.M.L. Wigley. 2003. On past temperatures and anomalous late-20th century warmth. EOS 84: 256 (solicited forum article).

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Robertson, A.D., J.T. Overpeck, D. Rind, E. Mosley-Thompson, G.A. Zielinski, J.L. Lean, D. Koch, J.E. Penner, I. Tegen, and R. Healy. 2001. Hypothesized climate forcing time series for the last 500 years. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 106: 14783-14803.

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Mann, M.E., E. Gille, R. S. Bradley, M. K. Hughes, J. Overpeck, F. T. Keimig, and W. Gross. 2000. Global temperature patterns in past centuries: An interactive presentation. Earth Interactions 4: paper number 4 (electronic journal).

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Overpeck, J.T. 2000. The hole record. Nature 403: 714-715.

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Overpeck, J.T. and 17 others. 1997. Arctic environmental change of the last four centuries. Science 278: 1251-1256.

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Rind, D. and J. Overpeck. 1995. Modeling the possible causes of decadal-to -millennial-scale variability. In: The Natural Variability of the Climate System on Decade-to-century Time-scales, National Academy of Sciences Press, pp. 187-197.

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Rind, D. and J. Overpeck. 1993. Hypothesized causes of decade- to century-scale climatic variability: Climate model results. Quaternary Science Reviews 12: 357-374.

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