RAPID - Round 1 - Quantitative applications of high-resolution late Holocene proxy data sets: estimating climate sensitivity and thermohaline circulation influences Project

Introduction

Output from state-of-the-art coupled climate models will be analysed in conjunction with very long instrumental climate data and an extensive archive of annual- and selected decadal-resolution palaeoclimate data to study climate changes during the past millennium. Actual and model-derived synthetic networks of palaeoclimate data will be used to estimate the extent to which (i) variations in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation strength; (ii) variations in the North Atlantic Oscillation; and (iii) the sensitivity of climate to external forcing changes can be reconstructed from different networks of palaeoclimate data, making assumptions about coverage, seasonality of response and reliability of expressed climate signal.

Project Duration: 1 Jul 2003 - 30 Jun 2008

This project is funded by NERC - Grant Ref. NER/T/S/2002/00440 - through the RAPID Climate Change NERC directed mode programme.

Availability of data

Ocean-atmosphere general circulation models (OAGCM) will be used to create synthetic proxy data in order to quantify their ability to represent climate variations over the last 1000 years. Existing and new proxy data will be used to reconstruct climate variations at optimal temporal (seasonal) and spatial resolutions. Existing chronologies will be borrowed from past research using dating techniques.

Access to data and information

Data and software supplied from this project to the BADC will be stored in the BADC RAPID archive.

Access to the archive is currently restricted to participants to this particular project. If you are a programme participant and would like to access this RAPID project data, then please apply for access^* to the RAPID data.

You will be requested to abide by the RAPID Climate Change Data Policy.
Data management, availability and use are ruled by the RAPID Climate Change Programme Data Management Plan (PDF document).
Access to Hadley Centre model data held at the BADC is subject to the signature of the NERC-Met Office agreement.

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This RAPID project is led by Prof Keith Briffa of the University of East Anglia, with co-investigators at the University of East Anglia.

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