Coordinator: Julia Hargreaves Co-coordinator: Andreas Schmittner

To use paleoclimate information to improve predictions of climate change

Paleoclimate modellers have for many years argued the importance of paleoclimate simulations as a means of increasing understanding of the climate system. However, it is only in the latest iteration of the climate model inter-comparison project (CMIP5) that paleoclimate runs have been officially included. This means that, for the first time, there exists a coherent ensemble of climate models run for past climates, recent historical, control and future scenarios.

This working group seeks to help climate scientists make the best use of this unique situation, so that they may better use past climate information from models and data to learn about future climates.

The working group was initiated at the PMIP3 2012 Crewe meeting

• Aims and Scope
• Members and mailing list
• Resources
  • Methods for combining data and models
  • Where to find the models
  • Where to find the data
  • Papers on model evaluation
  • Papers relating past and future
  • Projects: proposed, underway or completed
• LGM sensitivity subgroup
• Meetings

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