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The overarching aim of the DEKLIM (German Climate Research Programme) program is to improve climate predictability at global and regional scales by achieving a better understanding of long-term processes and climate modes. |
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This includes: (i) Detailed reconstructions of the temporal and spatial structure of climate change at centennial-to-millennial timescales from paleoclimatic proxy data. (ii) Climate modeling studies to disentangle the physical and biogeochemical processes involved in the generation of these modes.The research objective within DEKLIM-Paleo is related to the driving mechanisms of past and future climate c hange. Specific questions are related to the interaction of vegetation, atmospheric dynamics, thermohaline circulation, hydrosphere, and carbon cycle. Emphasis is placed on multiple states of the system, low-frequency climate modes, and the understanding of atmospheric and oceanic interconnections (Northern versus Southern Hemisphere forcing, ocean interconnections, relationships between low and high latitudes). |
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