Introduction
Paleolink is the name of a working group framed within the third phase of PAGES 2k, and will run between earl 2018 and the end of 2019. This is a non-funded initiative lead by the Atmospheric Modelling Group of the University of Murcia and co-lead by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It promotes the creation of an open network of collaborations, so anyone interested in the topics covered by this initiative are invited to participate. Further details about this working group are provided in the official site, hosted within the PAGES webpage.
PAGES and PAGES 2k
Taken from its webpage "the PAGES (Past Global Changes) project is an international effort to coordinate and promote past global change research. The primary objective is to improve our understanding of past changes in the Earth system in order to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability". Further, "PAGES is funded by the US National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Sciences, and supported in-kind by the University of Bern, Switzerland. It is a Global Research Project of Future Earth and a scientific partner of WCRP."
The science promoted by PAGES is structures around working groups, one of such is PAGES 2k, a long-running initiative studying past global changes of the last 2000 years. The PAGES 2k network was founded in 2008 and is planned to run until 2020. The Phase 3 started in 2017, and invites researchers from a wide range of disciplines to take active part in its organisation. Some researchers considered that the scale gap between climate simulations and reconstructions is an important bottleneck of current climate research, so we promoted the creation of a working group specifically devoted to this issue, being the original aim of Paleolink, as described in the original proposal.
Paleolink workshop
In February 2019, we celebrated the first Paleolink workshop. We have setup a webpage where further details of this workshop are available.
Blog post related to Paleolink
Reviewing paleo RCM applications
Recently, we have published a review on the applications of Regional Climate Models (RCM) in paleoclimatology in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The full title of the paper is Perspectives of regional paleoclimate modeling, and it’s a collaboration between the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of Murcia, and the Helmholtz Centrum Geesthacht. Go to post »
The Paleolink working group launched
Today, the webpage of the Paleolink working group has been launched, a milestone that can be regarded as the official kickoff. This is an initiative framed within the PAGES 2k network, and as such it is not directly funded. Instead, it is open to anyone interested. Therefore, do not hesitate to contact me or join the mailing list devoted to the group, kindly provided by the University of Bern. Still, being under the umbrella of PAGES implies, among other things, that we will have the opportunity to apply for funding in the following months to organise workshops and related activities. I’ll inform you in this blog and other resources about incoming events. Go to post »