The PALEO PERSPECTIVES ON PRESENT AND PROJECTED CLIMATE (P4CLIMATE) is a research initiative funded by the National Science Foundation. It focuses on using data from geological records and environmental archives to improve our understanding of climate changes over extended periods. The annual competition aims to support interdisciplinary research on two main themes: Past Regional and Seasonal Climate, and Past Climate Forcing, Sensitivity, and Feedbacks. It allows for proposals with and with… Show More

Much can be learned about the climate system using existing historical observations and models of current climate, but those records and models do not reflect the range of climate behavior on multi-decadal to millennial time scales, or capture tipping points, thresholds, and other key features o… Show More