Palaeoclimatic Research and Models

Workshop Report:.- Session A: Abrupt Climate Changes.- Session B: Initiation of Glaciation.- Session C: Glaciated Polar Regions and their Impact on Global Climate.- Aopendix to Session Reports.- Workshop Proceedings Reviews.- Actual palaeoclimatic problems from a climatologist’s viewpoint.- The physical basis of climate modelling.- Application of inverse modelling techniques to palaeoclimatic data.- Accuracy of palaeoinsolation and stability in the frequency domain.- Session A: Abrupt Climate Changes.- Ice core indications of abrupt climatic changes.- Abrupt climate changes: The terrestrial record.- Evolution climatique de la méditerranée orientale au cours des derniere deglaciation.- Late-glacial climate history from ice cores.- Pollenanalyses and characters of climatic changes at the end of the Eemian an at the beginning of the late Wurm in Western Europe.- Les crises climatiques de courte durée (quelques années a quelques siècles) et leur enregistrement dans la sedimentation continentale.- Do 15N variations in peat bogs allow statements of climatic changes in the past.- Climatic indexes on the basis of sedimentation parameters in geological and archaeological section.- Rather long duration of the transient climatic events in the Grande Pile.- Session B: Initiation of Glaciation.- The ocean surface during the last interglacial to glacial transition: A review of the available data.- Abrupt climatic events during the last glacial to interglacial transition.- Ice-sheet modelling for climate studies.- A G.C.M. simulation of the importance of insolation forcing for the initiation of Laurentide ice-sheet.- Planetary wave climatology experiments.- The evolution of Pleistocene climatic variability.- Session C: Glaciated polar regions and their impact on globalclimate.- History of the North Polar seas during the past 5 million years.- Sensitivity of General Circulation Models to changes in sea-ice cover.- Numerical modelling of Arctic sea ice: Review and preliminary results.- List of Participants.- Appendix: Workshop Committee.