The Climate in Historical Times

Abstract

The diversity of climate variability studies has grown substantially over the last decade, especially as policy makers now demand less uncertainty in future predictions of climate change. Under this umbrella of research, work has focused mainly on either modeling past climates (e.g., experimenting with quasi‐realistic climate models, such as general circulation models) or reconstructing past climates from proxies in natural archives. Effectively linking these two approaches has become one of the holy grails of recent climate change research, especially with a view to testing models and improving model parameterization. The Climate in Historical Times: Toward A Synthesis of Holocene Proxy Data and Climate Models reports on progress and findings of such an ambitious program.