This session invites submissions from studies using proxy reconstructions and palaeoclimate modelling to examine how tropical climate has behaved in the past, including during the historical era, in order to better understand how it is set to evolve in a warming world.

We welcome contributions from scientists studying tropical climate features such as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (and El Nino-Modoki), the Indian Ocean Dipole, the tropical monsoons, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool. This includes studies using proxy records such as corals, marine cores, lake cores, speleothems, tree-rings and ice cores to reconstruct changes in the mean configuration, variability and teleconnections of tropical climate systems over historical to geological timescales. We also encourage submissions that use palaeoclimate modelling to assess the response of tropical climate to changing boundary conditions and to improve the interpretation of proxy climate reconstructions.

Solicited presenter: Dr. Guillaume Leduc, GPI Kiel University.