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11 IMSC Session Program
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Plenary Session
08:30 – 10:10 Session 3 - South Hall (20 mins talk + 5 mins discussion)
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences Special Session: Reconstructing
and understanding climate over the Holocene (Gabi Hegerl, Jonathan Rougier,
Juerg Luterbacher)
Chair: Jonathan Rougier
08:30 – 08:55 Heinz Wanner - Holocene climate change – facts and mysteries
08:55 – 09:20 John Haslett - Uncertainties in palaeoclimate reconstruction –
sampling ensembles for the younger dryas
09:20 – 09:45 Michael E. Mann - Global signatures of the “Little Ice Age”
and “Medieval Climate Anomaly” and plausible dynamical
origins
09:45 – 10:10 Timothy J. Osborn, Douglas Maraun, Sarah C.B. Raper and
Keith R. Briffa - How good do palaeoclimate reconstructions of
last 1000 years need to be to usefully constrain climate model
parameters?
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee Break - Pentland
10:40 – 11:20 Session 3 - South Hall (20 mins talk + 5 mins discussion)
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences Special Session: Reconstructing
and understanding climate over the Holocene (Gabi Hegerl, Jonathan Rougier,
Juerg Luterbacher)
Chair: Gabi Hegerl
10:40 – 11:05 Mary Edwards and Heather Binney - Use of pollen data to
investigate past climates: Spatial and ecological sources of
uncertainty
11:05 – 11:20 Francis Zwiers - Discussion of use of statistical methods in
palaeoreconstructions (15 minutes discussion)
11:20 – 11:50 Session 8 - South Hall
Climate Data Homogenization and Climate trend/Variability Assessment (Xiaolan
Wang)
Chair: Xiaolan Wang
11:20 – 11:50 Reinhard Böhm - Bridging the gap from indirect to direct
climate data – experience with homogenizing long climate time
series in the early instrumental period
11:50 – 12:00 Introduction to posters - South Hall
Introduction to poster sessions 3, 10 and 8 (session chairs to give list of posters
with titles, grouped by topic; and poster presenters to go on stage, raising hand
when their title mentioned).
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