GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

This challenge will be tackled through the following activities:

• Producing and aggregating in databases high-resolution, well-dated, interoperable paleoclimatic records on climate changes from the past (e.g., temperature, GHG concentrations, sea level, ocean circulation variability, seasonality, and precipitation).
• Using paleo-archives at high resolution to extend the instrumental time series for better understating of the proxy records and for improved quantification of their uncertainties.
• Development of Earth system models with outputs that allow a more direct comparison to paleo-data, modelling climate variability, thresholds, and impacts across timescales from years to millennia (e.g., isotope-enabled general circulation models with dynamic ice sheet components that represent relevant feedbacks).
• Describing short- to long-term climate evolution using quantitative reconstructions from different proxies of past climate periods that are of particular relevance with respect to the current climate change scenario.
• Identification of climate tipping points, cascading effects, and environmental limits using paleo data and model experiments.
• Comparing changes in marine, terrestrial and glacier settings to evaluate ocean–land–cryosphere interactions.
• Documenting and quantifying the natural climate variability, in terms of amplitude, time (onset, duration, frequency) and space (location, extension).
• Allowing for consistent integration of large-scale and more regional/local factors to be reproduced by climate models using natural forcings.