Modeling Climate Evolution Since Mid-Holocene with Earth System Models

这一新的创新项目将通过应用地球系统建模，提高更广泛的社区对气候突变和气候多变性的基本机制的理解。气候-植被系统将使用对研究气候突变和气候变率至关重要的集合瞬变模拟，涵盖过去6500年。所选的时期跨越了北美和非洲及亚洲季风地区气候的大规模变化。模型模拟的结果将与观测数据进行比较。这项研究将融入本科非理科专业、理科专业和研究生的课程中，通过研究生助教和博士后支持为研究生和博士后的培养做出贡献。研究结果将发表在同行评审期刊和国际会议上。该项目包括美国，欧洲和亚洲研究人员的合作努力，其结果预计将有助于评估气候模型及其模拟未来气候变率和突变的能力。

This new and innovative project will improve the wider community's understanding of the mechanisms underlying abrupt climate change and climate variability, via the application of Earth-system modeling. The climate-vegetation system will be run to encompass the last six-and-a-half millennia using ensemble transient simulations which are critical for the study of abrupt climate change and climate variability. The selected period spans large-scale changes in the climates of North America and the monsoon lands of Africa and Asia. Results from model simulations will be compared with observational data.This research will be integrated into curricula for undergraduate non-science majors, science-majors, and graduate students, contributing to the training of graduate students and postdocs through graduate assistantships and post-doctoral support. Results will be presented in peer-reviewed journals and at international meetings. The project includes the collaborative efforts of researchers in the US, Europe, and Asia, and the results are expected to contribute to the assessment of climate models and their ability to simulate future climate variability and abrupt change.