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Clim Res 83:57-59 (2021)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01636

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The future of paleoclimate

ABSTRACT: Our understanding of natural climate variability rapidly declines over the Common Era (CE) as the pre-instrumental temperature amplitude differs substantially among large-scale reconstructions. Highlighting such differences and emphasizing paleoclimatic findings is crucial for placing anthropogenic climate change in a long-term context. We argue that more proxy records are needed to accurately reconstruct first millennium CE temperature variability and value regional studies producing such data.

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Temperature reconstruction Tree rings Multi-proxy IPCC Northern Hemisphere

Jan Esper (Corresponding Author)

  • Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
  • Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CzechGlobe), 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
esper@uni-mainz.de

Ulf Büntgen (Co-author)

  • Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CzechGlobe), 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  • Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EN Cambridge, UK
  • Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  • Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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