Tierney, JE, Poulsen, CJ, Montañez, IP et al. (22 more authors) (2020) Past climates inform our future. Science, 370 (6517). eaay3701. ISSN 0036-8075
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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science on 06 Nov 2020: Vol. 370, Issue 6517, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3701 |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Earth Surface Science Institute (ESSI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2020 14:52 |
Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2020 11:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Identification Number: | 10.1126/science.aay3701 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:167729 |