Climatic Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2000 Years

Section A: Dendroclimatology.- Tree-Ring Variables as Proxy-Climate Indicators: Problems with Low-Frequency Signals.- Tree-Ring Density Networks for Climate Reconstruction.- Millennial and Near-Millennial Scale Dendroclimatic Studies in Northern North America.- Reconciling the Glacial and Dendrochronological Records for the Last Millennium in the Canadian Rockies.- Multimillennial Dendroclimatic Studies from the Western United States.- Large-Scale Climatic Influences on Baldcypress Tree Growth Across the Southeastern United States.- Inter-Decadal Climate Oscillations in the Tasmanian Sector of the Southern Hemisphere: Evidence from Tree Rings over the Past Three Millennia.- Interdecadal Climatic Variations in Millennial Temperature Reconstructions from Southern South America.- Section B: Ice Cores.- Frequency Analysis of an Annually Resolved, 700 Year Paleoclimate Record from the GISP2 Ice Core.- Climate Reconstruction from Water Isotopes: What do we Learn from Isotopic Models?.- Climate Changes in the Atlantic Sector of Antarctica Over the Past 500 Years from Ice-Core and Other Evidence.- Holocene Climate Changes Recorded in an East Antarctica Ice Core.- Climatic Changes for the Last 2000 Years Inferred from Ice Core evidence in Tropical Ice Cores.- Inter-Comparison of Ice Core ?18O and Precipitation Records from Sites in Canada and Greenland over the Last 3500 Years and over the Last Few Centuries in Detail Using EOF Techniques.- Section C: Corals.- Coral Records of Climate Change: Understanding Past Variability in the Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere.- The Potential of Massive Corals for the Study of High-Resolution Climate Variation in the Past Millennium.- Eastern Pacific Corals Monitor El Niño/Southern Oscillation, Precipitation, and Sea Surface Temperature Variability Over the Past 3 Centuries.- Section D: Historical Evidence.- Reconstructions of Past Climate from Historical Sources in the Czech Lands.- The Analysis of Two Bi-Millennial Series: Tiber and Po River Floods.- Section E: Varved Sediments.- High Resolution Lacustrine Sediments and their Potential for Paleoclimatic Reconstruction.- Varved Sediment Records of Recent Seasonal to Millennial-Scale Environmental Variability.- Section F: Forcing Factors.- Intercomparisons of Proxies for Past Solar Variability.- Reconstructions of Past Solar Variability.- The Volcanic Record in Ice Cores for the Past 2000 Years.- Changes in Trace Gas Concentrations During the Last 2000 Years and More Generally, the Holocene.- The Potential for Modeling the Effects of Different Forcing Factors on Climate During the Past 2000 Years.- Section G: Conclusions.- Temperature Changes on Long Time and Large Spatial Scales: Inferences from Instrumental and Proxy Records.- Are There Optimum Sites for Global Paleotemperature Reconstruction?.- What Can the Instrumental Record Tell us About Longer Timescale Paleoclimatic Reconstructions?.- Conclusions and Recommendations.