General Paleoenvironmental Science

Overview

The laboratory is also interested in efforts to synthesize data and information across major paleoenvironmental areas and to work toward more effective uses of paleoenvironmental “perspectives” by a broad range of people. We have a weekly paleo discussion and an annual seminar to help keep ourselves cognizant of recent developments in the discipline. In a nutshell, a paleoperspective is essential for:

• understanding the full range of environmental variability
• identifying possible surprises in climate system behavior
• understanding how climate variability is affected by large changes in forcing
• evaluating the ability of models to simulate realistic change
• detecting anthropogenic environmental changes

Please note that our focus is on all aspects of the climate system: the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere.


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Present and Recent Collaborators

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Funding Agencies

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration

References

Overpeck, J.T. 1995. Paleoclimatology and climate system dynamics. Reviews of Geophysics 33 (supplement): 863-871.

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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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Peltier, W.R., C.A. Burga, J.-C. Duplessy, K. Herterich, I. Levin, E. Maier-Reimer, M. McElroy, J.T. Overpeck, D. Raynaud, and U. Siegenthaler. 1993. How can we use paleodata for evaluating the internal variability and feedbacks in the climate system? In: Global Changes in the Perspective of the Past, J.A. Eddy and H. Oeschger, eds., J. Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 239-262.

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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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Bradley, R. and 14 others. 1991. Global change: The last 2000 years. In: Global Changes of the Past, R. Bradley, ed., UCAR/Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies, Boulder, CO, pp. 11-24.

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Overpeck, J.T. 1991. Century- to millennium-scale climatic variability during the late Quaternary. In: Global Changes of the Past, R. Bradley, ed., UCAR/Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies, Boulder, CO, pp. 139-173.

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