Wednesday 12th March

10 am: Registration

10:15-12:15 Welcome and definitions

1. 10:15. Welcome to UCL and logistics. Chris Brierley (UCL, UK)
   

2. 10:30. Roundtable on the Meeting Aims. Pascale Braconnot (LSCE, France)
   

3. 11:15. Inferring marine climate variability from interannual to millenial timescales. Thom Laepple (AWI Bremerhaven, Germany)
   

4. 11:45. Estimating orbital influence on climate variability through emulation. Pablo Araya-Melo (UC Louvain, Belgium)
   

12:15-1pm Lunch (provided)

1pm-5 pm: Extratropical variability in climate proxies [note: Gordon House, Room 106]

1. 1:00. Palaeostages of the Caspian Sea as a potential evaluation tool for climate model simulations. Alexander Kislov (Moscow State, Russia)
   

2. 1:30. Climate variability responded to obliquity. Zhongshi Zhang (Bergen, Norway)
   

3. 2:00. Dust non-stationarity as an indicator of atmospheric reorganization during climatic changes. Fabrice Lambert (Santiago, Chile)
   

4. 2:30. Climate variability from Asian terrestrial proxy archives. Kira Rehfeld (AWI Bremerhaven, Germany)
   

Coffee

1. 3:30. Combining model simulations and paleoceanographic reconstructions for a process-based understanding of climate variability in the North Atlantic/Arctic region.  Johann Jungclaus (MPI, Germany)
   

2. 4:00. Synthesis Discussion
   

Evening: optional visit to the Bree Louise [a pub specialising in real ale and pies]

Thurs 13th March

9am-1pm: Tropical variability as recorded by climate proxies

1. 9:00. Tropical Climate Variability in the Western Pacific on Sub-annual to Orbital Timescales. Jud Partin (U. Texas, USA)
   

2. 9:30. Reconstructions Of ENSO Variability for the past 60ka Using Fossil Giant Clams From The Huon Peninsula. Robin Driscoll (Edinburgh, UK)
   

3. 10:00. Reconstructions of paleo-SST using individual foraminifera in the tropical Pacific: records of annual cycle or ENSO variability? Kaustubh Thirumalai (U. Texas, USA)
   

4. 10:30. Tropical variability recorded in planktic foraminifera: proxies and problems (to solve). Frank Peeters (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)
   

Coffee

1. 11:30. Palaeo-observations of strong climate variability in tropical lowlands of South America by indirect proxies. Bruno Turcq (LOCEAN, France)
   

2. 12:00. Investigating the relative importance of climate and climate-mediated drivers of fire in East Africa. Colin Courtney-Mustaphi (York, UK)
   

3. 12:30. A South African record of interannual variability spanning multiple precession cycles. Phil Hopley (Birkbeck, UK)
   

1-2pm Lunch Break

2-5:30pm: Simulated variability

1. 2:00. ENSO signatures in the Indo-Pacific ocean basins in past, present, and future climate simulations. Julie Leloup (LSCE, France)
   

2. 2:30. Mid-Holocene ENSO in PMIP. Soon-Il An (Yonsei, Korea)
   

3. 3:00. Simulating the changes in the teleconnection between the SPCZ and ENSO in different climate contexts. Marion Saint Lu (LSCE, France)
   

4. 3:30. Assessing the tropical climate over the last glacial/interglacial. Paul Valdes & Will Roberts (Bristol, UK)
   

Coffee

1. 4:00. Simulating variations of oceanic oxygen minimum zones in Holocene. Xu Xu (Kiel, Germany)
   

2. 4:30. A bipolar perspective on millennial climate variability. Valerie Masson-Delmotte (LSCE, France)
   

3. 5:00. Synthesis Discussion
   

Evening: optional dinner in local restaurant [tba]

Friday 14th March

9am-10:30: Prior attempts at data-model comparisons for variability

1. 9:00. Lessons from a preliminary attempt at palaeovariability data-model comparison. Simon Brewer (Utah, USA)
   

2. 9:30. The SPCZ and ENSO since the LGM: comparison of coral data and model results. Thierry Correge (Bordeaux, France)
   

3. 10:00. Lake Isotope data – Climate Model comparisons. Matthew Jones (Nottingham, UK)
   

4. 10:30. Thoughts of the Last Millenium Working Group about variability. Johann Jungclaus (MPI, Germany)
   

Coffee

11:30-1pm: Potential future directions

Discussion chaired by Simon Brewer

1-2pm Lunch Break

2-3:30pm: Conclusions and outline of required actions

Discussion chaired by Chris Brierley & Pascale Braconnot

3:30. Close