Session Announcement and Call for Papers
Quaternary Climate Records from the Continents: Comparisons with Their
Marine and Polar Cousins
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
10-14 December 2007
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: 6 September 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=158
Papers are invited for Session U04: "Quaternary Climate Records from the
Continents: Comparisons with Their Marine and Polar Cousins" being
convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting on 10-14
December 2007 in San Francisco, California.
Session Description:
Recent records of continental climate change derived from lakes drilled
by DOSECC (Drilling, Observation, Sampling of the Earth's Continental
Crust), ICDP (International Continental Drilling Program), and other
programs and new speleothem records are revealing new insights into
global climate dynamics. The session will focus on the recent climate
record as revealed through the analysis of continental records and
geographical differences in the climate as revealed by the comparison
between different continental records and the marine record. To what
extent is the hydrological cycle of the tropics impacted by the extent
of high latitude ice sheets or the orbital influence on seasonal
insolation? What are the direction, amplitude, and global extent of
centennial-millennial-scale climate variability in MIS 2-6; what do
these observations imply for driving mechanisms? How do continental
records compare with marine records of continental climate change (e.g.,
the terrigeneous dust abundance, fluvial inputs to the sea)?
Contributions are encouraged from the continental and marine
paleoclimate communities, including those from the poles within the
context of the International Polar Year. This session also facilitates
dialog within the IGBP-PAGES focus 3 on Land/Ocean/Cryosphere dynamics
and linkages.
Conveners:
Thomas C. Johnson
University of Minnesota Duluth
E-mail: tcj [at] d.umn.edu
Julie Brigham-Grette
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
E-mail: juliebg [at] geo.umass.edu
Further information and abstract submission procedures are available at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/