Webinar: From the Theory of Ice Ages to IPCC climate projections
INQUA vice-president, Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Goni, Professor of Paleoclimatology, was invited to ISC Dinstinguished Lecture Series where she talked about “From the Theory of Ice Ages to IPCC climate projections”.
This lecture briefly introduces the discovery of the ice ages, the astronomical theory explaining them, and the unexpected identification of abrupt climate variability (millennial-to-centennial) in the 1980s. Despite improved understanding of global and regional climate change and increased model complexity, the relative contribution of different feedbacks (clouds, ocean circulation, vegetation and its coupling with water and carbon cycles, ice…) continues to vary from model to model, leading to mismatches between climate reconstructions and simulations. Acquiring new Quaternary paleoclimatic records and comparing them with model results is, more than ever, the basic science needed to explain current climate change and improve climate projections.
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