Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

PAGES Hydro2k Consortium,

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1851-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1851-2017

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Special issue:

Climate of the past 2000 years: regional and trans-regional...

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1851-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Review article

|

20 Dec 2017

Review article |

| 20 Dec 2017

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

PAGES Hydro2k Consortium

Data sets

Coral derived delta^18 O seawater data from Fiji, core 1F B. K. Linsley https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.874070

Coral derived delta^18 O seawater data from Rarotonga, core 2R B. K. Linsley https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.874078

Ogasawara annual Sr/Ca, U/Ca, stable isotope and delta^18 O seawater data of coral core OGA-02-1 T. Felis, A. Suzuki, H. Kuhnert, M. Dima, G. Lohmann, and H. Kawahata https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.743956

Guadeloupe annual coral seawater delta^18 O reconstruction S. Hetzinger, M. Pfeiffer, W. C. Dullo, C. D. Garbe-Schoenberg, and J. Halfar https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.873994

Short summary

Water availability is fundamental to societies and ecosystems, but our understanding of variations in hydroclimate (including extreme events, flooding, and decadal periods of drought) is limited due to a paucity of modern instrumental observations. We review how proxy records of past climate and climate model simulations can be used in tandem to understand hydroclimate variability over the last 2000 years and how these tools can also inform risk assessments of future hydroclimatic extremes.