Workshop on Synthesizing Transient Climate Evolution of the Last 21,000 Years (SynTraCE-21000); Madison, Wisconsin; August 11-13, 2008

该奖项有助于支持过去21,000年来气候系统瞬时演变的多个代理证据的综合。这项综合工作将通过一个讲习班和开发一个有关气候记录的数据库来完成，有两个目的。首先，它将帮助建立一个关于过去21,000年的多代理记录的综合数据库。其次，它将有助于为测试关于气候敏感性和气候突变的最先进的气候模型提供一个独特的基准，因为过去21,000年的气候历史包含了极端气候强迫下气候变异性的全面记录。具体地说，该奖项有助于为参加2008年8月11日至13日在威斯康星州麦迪逊举行的研讨会的科学家提供部分参与者支持。研讨会的与会者将拥有古气候学和气候研究相关方面的专门知识，并将讨论过去时间段具体模拟的利弊。参与者将包括经验丰富的研究人员、新的调查人员和学生。通过这种方式，将能够就科学问题进行公开和生动的意见交流。讲习班有两个主要目标：1)确定相关的古气候数据，这些数据将综合退冰期气候演变、融水强迫、全球季风演变以及海洋和陆地生态系统突变的主要特征；2)制定数据收集和模型开发的优先事项，以期进行更真实的瞬变模拟。

This award helps to support a synthesis of multi-proxy evidence for the transient evolution of the climate system over the last 21,000 years. This synthesis, which will be accomplished through a workshop and the development of a database of the relevant climate records, serves two purposes. First, it will help produce a comprehensive database of multi-proxy records of the last 21,000 years. Secondly, it will help provide a unique benchmark for testing state-of-art climate models on climate sensitivity and abrupt climate change because the last 21,000 years of climate history contains a comprehensive record of climate variability under extreme climate forcing. Specifically, the award helps provide partial participant support for scientists to attend a workshop in Madison, WI from August 11-13, 2008. Participants at the workshop will have expertise in paleoclimatology and related aspects of climate research and will discuss the pros and cons of specific simulations of past time periods. The participants will include seasoned researchers, new investigators, and students. In this manner, an open and lively exchange of views on the science will be enabled. The workshop has two key objectives: 1) to identify relevant paleoclimate data which will synthesize the major features of deglacial climate evolution, meltwater forcing, global monsoon evolution, and abrupt changes in ocean and terrestrial ecosystem; and 2) develop priorities in both data collection and model development aimed at more realistic transient simulations.