[HTML][HTML] Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies

M Chevalier, BAS Davis, O Heiri, H Seppä… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

Consistent multidecadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the Common Era

Nature geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
Multidecadal surface temperature changes may be forced by natural as well as
anthropogenic factors, or arise unforced from the climate system. Distinguishing these …

Piecing together the past: statistical insights into paleoclimatic reconstructions

MP Tingley, PF Craigmile, M Haran, B Li… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Reconstructing a climate process in both space and time from incomplete instrumental and
climate proxy time series is a problem with clear societal relevance that poses both scientific …

European summer temperatures since Roman times

J Luterbacher, JP Werner, JE Smerdon… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The spatial context is critical when assessing present-day climate anomalies, attributing
them to potential forcings and making statements regarding their frequency and severity in a …

The last millennium climate reanalysis project: Framework and first results

GJ Hakim, J Emile‐Geay, EJ Steig… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An “offline” approach to DA is used, where static ensemble samples are drawn from existing
CMIP climate‐model simulations to serve as the prior estimate of climate variables. We use …

A Bayesian, spatially-varying calibration model for the TEX86 proxy

JE Tierney, MP Tingley - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
TEX 86 is an important proxy for constraining ocean temperatures in the Earth's past.
Current calibrations, however, feature structured residuals indicative of a spatially-varying …

Estimating central equatorial Pacific SST variability over the past millennium. Part II: Reconstructions and implications

J Emile-Geay, KM Cobb, ME Mann… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Reducing the uncertainties surrounding the impacts of anthropogenic climate change
requires vetting general circulation models (GCMs) against long records of past natural …

Recent temperature extremes at high northern latitudes unprecedented in the past 600 years

MP Tingley, P Huybers - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Recently observed extreme temperatures at high northern latitudes,,,,,, are rare by definition,
making the longer time span afforded by climate proxies important for assessing how the …

An efficient forward model of the climate controls on interannual variation in tree-ring width

SE Tolwinski-Ward, MN Evans, MK Hughes… - Climate Dynamics, 2011 - Springer
We present a simple, efficient, process-based forward model of tree-ring growth, called
Vaganov–Shashkin-Lite (VS-Lite), that requires as inputs only latitude and monthly …

Climate models as a test bed for climate reconstruction methods: pseudoproxy experiments

JE Smerdon - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Millennium‐length, forced transient simulations with fully coupled general circulation models
have become important new tools for addressing uncertainties in global and hemispheric …