The Climate in Historical Times

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. The Holocene: Considerations with Regard to its Climate and Climate Archives

   • Jörg F. W. Negendank

   Pages 1-12

3. Nonlinear Dynamics of the Climate System

   • Klaus Dethloff, Annette Rinke, Dörthe Handorf, Antje Weisheimer, Wolfgang Dorn

   Pages 13-41

4. A Discourse About Quasi-realistic Climate Models and Their Applications in Paleoclimatic Studies

   • Hans von Storch

   Pages 43-55

5. Holocene Climate Variability from Model Simulations — State of the Art

   • Eva Bauer, Dörthe Handorf

   Pages 57-75

6. Marine Paleoclimatology — Motivation, Tools, and Results

   • Bert Rein

   Pages 77-90

7. Corals as Climate Archive

   • Thomas Felis, Jürgen Pätzold

   Pages 91-108

8. Annually Laminated Lake Sediments and Their Palaeoclimatic Relevance

   • Achim Brauer

   Pages 109-127

9. Interpreting Climate Proxies from Tree-rings

   • Gerhard Helle, Gerhard H. Schleser

   Pages 129-148

10. The Environmental and Climate Record in Polar Ice Cores

    • Hubertus Fischer

    Pages 149-170

11. Reconstructing Large-scale Variability from Palaeoclimatic Evidence by Means of Data Assimilation Through Upscaling and Nudging(DATUN)

    • Julie M. Jones, Martin Widmann

    Pages 171-193

12. Mid- to Late Holocene Lake Ecosystem Response to Catchment and Climatic Changes — A Detailed Varve Analysis of Lake Holzmaar (Germany)

    • Janina Baier, Jörg F. W. Negendank, Bernd Zolitschka

    Pages 195-208

13. Holocene Palaeoclimate in the Saharo—Arabian Desert

    • Sushma Prasad, Jörg F. W. Negendank

    Pages 209-227

14. Transfer Functions for Paleoclimate Reconstructions — Theory and Methods

    • Thomas Kumke, Christian Schölzel, Andreas Hense

    Pages 229-243

15. Transfer Functions for Paleoclimate Reconstructions — Applications

    • Thomas Kumke, Andreas Hense, Christian Schölzel, Andrei A. Andreev, Cathrin Brüchmann, Christoph Gebhardt et al.

    Pages 245-262

16. Climate Information from Stable Hydrogen and Carbon Isotopes of C3 Plants — Growth Chamber Experiments and Field Observations

    • Christoph Mayr, Peter Trimborn, Josef Lipp, Thorsten E. E. Grams, Wolfgang Graf, Hans-Dieter Payer et al.

    Pages 263-279

17. Detection of Climate Modes as Recorded in a Seasonal-resolution Coral Record Covering the Last 250 Years

    • Norel Rimbu, Gerrit Lohmann, Thomas Felis, Jürgen Pätzold

    Pages 281-292

18. Phase Stability of the Solar Schwabe Cycle in Lake Holzmaar, Germany, and GISP2, Greenland, between 10,000 and 9,000 cal. BP

    • Heinz Vos, Cathrin Brüchmann, Andreas Lücke, Jörg F. W. Negendank, Gerhard H. Schleser, Bernd Zolitschka

    Pages 293-317

19. Variable Freshwater Input to the Arctic Ocean During the Holocene: Implications for Large-Scale Ocean-Sea Ice Dynamics as Simulated by a Circulation Model

    • Matthias Prange, Gerrit Lohmann

    Pages 319-335

20. Forced Climate Variability During the Last Millennium with the Earth System Model CLIMBER-2

    • Eva Bauer, Martin Claußen, Anja Hünerbein, Victor Brovkin

    Pages 337-350

An Introduction to the KIHZ Project The description of the climate system and the quantification of its natural variability and dynamics is essential to assess an ongoing anthropogenic cli­ mate change and to validate climate and biogeochemical models to allow for reliable projections into the future. Because the spatio-temporal coverage of direct meteorological observations is rather limited, high-resolution and ab­ solutely dated climate archives represent the only key to a quantification of seasonal to millenial climate variations in the past. Furthermore, climate mod­ els provide insights into the major processes and causes relevant for climate variability on these time scales. Both approaches represent one side of the same medal, however melting both sides down to one combined effort is often hampered by obstacles defined by the different nature of the approaches. For instance, General Circulation Models (GCMs) per se deal with spatially resolved data representing real climate variables in the model world (such as temperature or precipitation) with each model run reflecting one possible realization of climate history under given boundary conditions. In contrast, the records of natural climate archives are influenced by climate variations as they took place in reality, however, are often representative of local climate conditions only. Moreover, the climate information deduced from natural archives is in nearly all cases based on climate proxies, whose relationship to real climate variables, the so called transfer function, has to be established beforehand.

• Climatology
• Paleoclimatology
• Scale
• Sediment
• climate models
• climate research
• climate variability
• ecosystem
• holocene
• palaeoecology
• paleoclimate
• proxy data
• quaternary geology

From the reviews:

"This book presents peer-viewed results from a final workshop in 2001 … . The book … is a very valuable contribution. … This book is recommended to anyone interested in the most challenging topic of global climate change." (Environmental Geology, Vol. 49, 2006)

"The climate in historical times represents outcomes of a KIHZ meeting concerned with natural climate variability. … this volume offers an accessible overview of current knowledge concerning the reconstruction of past climate. It will interest researchers and students over a broad range of disciplines including atmospheric science, environmental sciences, geography and geosciences." (Nicholas Betts, The Holocene, Vol. 15 (6), 2005)

• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

  Hubertus Fischer, Heinrich Miller

• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany

  Thomas Kumke

• Geoscience Department, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Gerrit Lohmann

• GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany

  Götz Flöser, Hans Storch

• GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

  Jörg F. W. Negendank

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