Pollen-Climate Model Intercomparison Project
February 21 - 23, 2018 Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta
Organizers
- Andria Dawson Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University
- Simon Goring Assistant Scientist, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Basil Davis University of Lausanne
Meeting Goals
The Pollen Climate Model Intercomparison Project (PCMIP) is part of a PAGES and PalEON funded initiative created to investigate the sources of variability among pollen-based climate models, understand the strengths and weaknesses of models, and provide a statistical framework for evaluating fit, mismatch and artifacts of the models under different paleoecological scenarios. The first PCMIP meeting was held in 2017 in Caux, Switzerland, and established a dialogue among international collaborators who model climate using paleoecological proxy data. After initial discussions, the international PCMIP group is now poised to implement and deliver products that review, implement, and benchmark existing paleo-proxy climate models.
Principle goals for the meeting are to:
- Identify key questions with regards to numerical methods that can be effectively tested (no-analogue environments, non-stationary vegetation-climate relationships)
- Identify test data sets suitable for the conditions
- Determine appropriate metrics for comparison of reconstructions
- Identify key numerical methods and a framework for their implementation
- Conceive and begin to implement an analytic workflow for the framework