Final Programme

All plenary sessions will be held in Building A56, Conference Hall at basement level -1. The respective rooms for the parallel sessions / breakout groups will be announced on-site.

Abstracts (Talks)

Abstracts (Posters)

Breakout Groups 1-3

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

10:00 Registration & Coffee (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)
11:00 Welcome
11:00 S. Lovejoy: CVAS Challenges

Plenary Session 1: Overview talks

11:25 T. Laepple: Data - Holocene variability in proxies vs. models
11:45 R. Hebert / K. Rehfeld: Methods - Inferring variability from data
12:05 J. Bader: Models - Transient high-resolution Holocene simulations

12:30 Lunch (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)

Plenary Session 2: Data - What can and cannot climate proxies tell us about Holocene climate variability?

13:30 T. Felis: Tropical corals - What can and cannot climate proxies tell us about Holocene climate variability?
13:50 A. Orsi / M. Casado: Temperature reconstructions from polar ice cores
14:10 G. Leduc: What can be said about Holocene changes in the ocean state deduced from marine proxies?

Plenary Session 3: Methods - How to infer scaling information from climate data

14:30 R. Donner: Assessing scaling from paleodata - Some contemporary challenges
14:50 N. Jajcay: Cross-scale information transfer in climate records
15:10 N. Boers: Dating uncertainties in layer-counted paleoclimatic archives

15:30 Coffee Break (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)

Plenary Session 4: Theory and Models

16:00 P. Bakker: Hypothesis testing using AOGCMs - The Antarctic Ice Sheet and multi-centennial climate variability
16:20 C. Proistosescu: Modeling feedbacks, sensitivity, and variability across time scales
16:40 T. Kunz: Space-time structure of climate variability - a spectral perspective

Plenary Session 5: Scaling Controversies

17:00 S. Lovejoy: Is civilization due to freak macroweather?
17:15 T. Nilsen: Is there a break in scaling on centennial time scales in Holocene temperature records?
17:30 Group discussion

18:00 Poster Session and Ice Breaker (Building A56, Ground Floor)

Thursday, 26 October 2017

09:00 Introduction to Day 2, Formation of Breakout Groups 1-3 (Conference Hall)

09:15 Parallel sessions of breakout groups 1-3: Short inputs of all participants (2-3 slides per person)

10:30 Coffee Break (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)

11:00 Parallel sessions of breakout groups 1-3 (continued)

12:30 Lunch Break (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)

13:30 Parallel sessions of breakout groups 1-3 (continued)

15:30 Coffee Break (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)

16:00 Presentation and plenary discussion: Results from breakout groups 1-3

Plenary Session 6: Applications of methods on data

17:15 F. Lambert: Antarctic high-resolution dust vs. temperature – similarities and differences

17:35 O. Elison Timm: Testing the reconstruction potential for North Pacific circulation anomalies inside the TraCE-21ka paleoclimate simulation

18:00 End of Day 2

19:00 Workshop Dinner (Genusswerkstatt Potsdam, near Hotel Mercure)

Friday, 27 October 2017

09:00 Introduction to Day 3, Formation of Breakout Groups A-C (Conference Hall)
09:15 Parallel sessions of breakout groups A-C

10:30 Coffee Break (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)

11:00 Parallel sessions of breakout groups A-C (continued)

12:30 Lunch Break (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)

13:30 Presentation and plenary discussion: Results from breakout groups A-C (Conference Hall)

15:30 Coffee Break (Building A56, basement level -1, foyer)

16:00 Final discussion / end of the general workshop programme

17:00 Internal meeting of CVAS representatives