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Author : Gajewski, K.; Sawada, M.; Viau, A.; Atkinson, D.; and Wilson, S.
Date : 2000.
Title : Holocene terrestrial paleoclimates: a review and unresolved issues.
Publication : Annual Scientific Meeting, Canadian Geophysical Union, Banff, Alberta, May 23-27, 2000.
Issue : Abstract.
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Abstract
The Climate System History and Dynamics (CSHD) Project 4 is concerned with the reconstruction and analysis of terrestrial climates during the Holocene. We will review our past accomplishments and suggest unresolved questions in quantitative terrestrial paleoclimatology. Analysis of the spatial covariance of pollen and vegetation and comparison of different proxy-climate data are improving our understanding of the time-space distribution of vegetation and climate. A circumpolar reconstruction of late Holocene climates illustrates significant climate changes in the millennium. Quantitative reconstructions of the climate of North Americafor 6ka show large anomalies, which suggest insufficient data in some areas but also methodological issues in the method of modern analogues. Improvements in the methodology permit more confidence in these reconstructions. A gridded globallake-level database can be combined in the near future with pollen-based paleoclimateestimates permitting a near-hemispheric paleoclimate-data comparison.
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