Summary
A two-day workshop was held at the Australian Academy of Sciences to discuss how reconstructions of past climate change might be better applied to modelling future potential climate change. Recommendations included: (1) Construction of a record of temperature and precipitation changes for the last 500-2000 years over the Australian region; (2) Improved reconstruction by the development of quantified climate proxies; (3) Develop a national capacity for high-precision dating; (4) Develop a national capacity for palaeoclimate modelling; (5) Develop a land use and vegetation database for Australia for key time periods; and (6) Create a meta-database of palaeo data hosted in a permanent repository.
Authors:Turney C. Chappell J. Kershaw P. Lynch A. Manton A. Nicholls N. van Ommen T. Pitman A.
Published in: 2005
Category 2: International meeting papers
Program area: Glaciology
Turney C., Chappell J., Kershaw P., Lynch A., Manton A., Nicholls N., van Ommen T., Pitman A.
(2005)
Report for "Reconstructing past climates for future prediction: Integrating high-resolution palaeo data for meaningful prediction in the Australian region",
Workshop Report for the Australian Greenhouse Office, Australian Academy of Sciences, 27-28 June 2005
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