Climatic Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2000 Years

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Tree-ring variables as proxy-climate indicators: Problems with low-frequency signals....Pages 9-41
Tree-Ring Density Networks for Climate Reconstruction....Pages 43-66
Millennial and Near-Millennial Scale Dendroclimatic Studies in Northern North America....Pages 67-84
Reconciling the glacial and dendrochronological records for the last millennium in the Canadian Rockies....Pages 85-108
Multimillennial dendroclimatic studies from the western United States....Pages 109-124
Large-Scale Climatic Influences on Baldcypress Tree Growth Across the Southeastern United States....Pages 125-140
Inter-decadal climate oscillations in the Tasmanian sector of the Southern Hemisphere: Evidence from tree rings over the past three millennia....Pages 141-160
Interdecadal climatic variations in millennial temperature reconstructions from southern South America....Pages 161-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Frequency Analysis of an Annually Resolved, 700 Year Paleoclimate Record from the GISP2 Ice Core....Pages 193-212
Climate reconstruction from water isotopes: What do we learn from isotopic models?....Pages 213-241
Climate changes in the Atlantic Sector of Antarctica over The Past 500 Years from Ice-Core and Other Evidence....Pages 243-262
Holocene Climate Changes Recorded in an East Antarctica Ice Core....Pages 263-279
Climatic Changes for the last 2000 Years Inferred from Ice-Core Evidence in Tropical Ice Cores....Pages 281-295
Inter-comparison of Ice Core δ( 18 O) and Precipitation Records from Sites in Canada and Greenland over the last 3500 years and over the last few Centuries in detail using EOF Techniques.....Pages 297-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Coral records of climate change: understanding past variability in the tropical ocean-atmosphere....Pages 331-353
The potential of massive corals for the study of high-resolution climate variation in the past millennium....Pages 355-371
Eastern Pacific corals monitor El Niño/Southern Oscillation, precipitation, and sea surface temperature variability over the past 3 centuries....Pages 373-405
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Reconstructions of Past Climate from Historical Sources in the Czech Lands....Pages 409-431
The analysis of two bi-millennial series: Tiber and Po river floods....Pages 433-450
Front Matter....Pages 451-451
High Resolution Lacustrine Sediments and Their Potential for Palaeoclimatic Reconstruction....Pages 453-478
Varved Sediment Records of Recent Seasonal to Millennial-scale Environmental Variability....Pages 479-498
Front Matter....Pages 499-499
Intercomparisons of proxies for past solar variability....Pages 501-517
Reconstructions of Past Solar Variability....Pages 519-532
The volcanic record in ice cores for the past 2000 years....Pages 533-546
Changes in Trace Gas Concentrations during the last 2,000 years and more generally the Holocene....Pages 547-561
The Potential for Modeling the Effects of Different Forcing Factors on Climate During the Past 2000 Years....Pages 563-581
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
Temperature changes on long time and large spatial scales: Inferences from instrumental and proxy records....Pages 585-601
Are there optimum sites for global paleotemperature reconstruction?....Pages 603-624
What can the instrumental record tell us about longer timescale paleoclimatic reconstructions?....Pages 625-644
Conclusions and Recommendations....Pages 645-649