
COMPARE 2012: Comparing Ocean Models with Paleo- Archives
- Dates:
- 18.03 - 21.03.2012
- Venue:
- Bremen, Germany
- Contact person:
- Organizers, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Website:
- http://www.marum.de/en/index.html
Workshop report: - > Access

The workshop will bring together paleoceanographers and climate modelers to carry out the first comparison of existing ocean proxy data with PMIP3 model results, consider new ways of data-model comparison and the feasibility of extending the method to new data.
The main aims are to:
- carry out the first evaluation of the PMIP3 simulations of the past oceans against paleoceanographic data
- achieve progress on treatment of uncertainty in proxy-based reconstructions and in data-model comparisons
- formulate recommendations for best practice in usage and interpretation of proxy data, including a guide of how to use benchmark ocean proxy data for PMIP3
- review the status of data synthesis on LGM deep ocean and ocean circulation and assess its suitability for data-model comparison
- assess the potential of extending the MARGO approach towards new temporal targets
- consider novel ways of comparing data with models and using patterns in model ensembles to guide future paleoceanographic work
Please contact the organizers if you would like to attend.
Post-meeting products
Implication of methodological uncertainties for mid-Holocene sea surface temperature reconstructions (2014), Climate of the Past 10: 2237-2252