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Past climates inform our future

Past climates inform our future
Past climates inform our future
As the world warms, there is a profound need to improve projections of climate change. Although the latest Earth system models offer an unprecedented number of features, fundamental uncertainties continue to cloud our view of the future. Past climates provide the only opportunity to observe how the Earth system responds to high carbon dioxide, underlining a fundamental role for paleoclimatology in constraining future climate change. Here, we review the relevancy of paleoclimate information for climate prediction and discuss the prospects for emerging methodologies to further insights gained from past climates. Advances in proxy methods and interpretations pave the way for the use of past climates for model evaluation—a practice that we argue should be widely adopted.
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Tierney, Jessica E., Poulsen, Christopher J., Montanez, Isabel, Bhattacharya, Tripti, Feng, Ran, Ford, Heather, Hönisch, Bärbel, Inglis, Gordon, Petersen, Sierra, Sagoo, Navjit, Tabor, Clay, Thirumalai, Kaustubh, Zhu, Jiang, Burls, Natalie, Godderis, Yves, Foster, Gavin, Huber, Brian T., Ivany, Linda, Kirtland Turner, Sandra, Lunt, Daniel, McElwain, Jennifer, Mills, Benjamin, Otto-Bliesner, Bette L., Ridgwell, Andy and Ge Zhang, Yi (2020) Past climates inform our future. Science, 370 (6517), [eaay3701]. (doi:10.1126/science.aay3701).

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Abstract

As the world warms, there is a profound need to improve projections of climate change. Although the latest Earth system models offer an unprecedented number of features, fundamental uncertainties continue to cloud our view of the future. Past climates provide the only opportunity to observe how the Earth system responds to high carbon dioxide, underlining a fundamental role for paleoclimatology in constraining future climate change. Here, we review the relevancy of paleoclimate information for climate prediction and discuss the prospects for emerging methodologies to further insights gained from past climates. Advances in proxy methods and interpretations pave the way for the use of past climates for model evaluation—a practice that we argue should be widely adopted.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 August 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 6 November 2020
Published date: 6 November 2020
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.

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Local EPrints ID: 444830
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/444830
ISSN: 0036-8075
PURE UUID: 9fc6bfb0-c618-4409-b025-93b9b0551d71
ORCID for Gordon Inglis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0032-4668
ORCID for Gavin Foster: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3688-9668

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Date deposited: 06 Nov 2020 17:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:00

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Author: Jessica E. Tierney
Author: Christopher J. Poulsen
Author: Isabel Montanez
Author: Tripti Bhattacharya
Author: Ran Feng
Author: Heather Ford
Author: Bärbel Hönisch
Author: Gordon Inglis ORCID iD
Author: Sierra Petersen
Author: Navjit Sagoo
Author: Clay Tabor
Author: Kaustubh Thirumalai
Author: Jiang Zhu
Author: Natalie Burls
Author: Yves Godderis
Author: Gavin Foster ORCID iD
Author: Brian T. Huber
Author: Linda Ivany
Author: Sandra Kirtland Turner
Author: Daniel Lunt
Author: Jennifer McElwain
Author: Benjamin Mills
Author: Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Author: Andy Ridgwell
Author: Yi Ge Zhang

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