Detailed Conference Program

Sessions and topics:

1. Historical climatology, documentary data
   • Early instrumental records and observations
   • Weather and climate information from documentary sources
2. Climate reconstructions from natural archives
   • Lakes sediments, peat bogs, trees, speleothems and other natural archives - particularly welcomed are records at annual resolution
   • Long time series of climate extremes (e.g. flood records, heat waves, fire, ice cover)
3. Past climate modeling, data-model comparisons
   • GCM and RCM model experiments
   • Detection and attribution
   • Data assimilation and other techniques
4. Proxy calibration, disentangling climate and human impacts
   • Methodologies and case studies
5. Past human impacts on the environment
   • Evidence from paleobotanical, archaeological and other sources