Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2016
Abstract
Climate change has become a key environmental narrative of the 21st century. However, emphasis on the science of climate change has overshadowed studies focusing on human interpretations of climate history, of adaptation and resilience, and of explorations of the institutions and cultural coping strategies that may have helped people adapt to climate changes in the past. Moreover, although the idea of climate change has been subject to considerable scrutiny by the physical sciences, recent climate scholarship has highlighted the need for a re-examination of the cultural and spatial dimensions of climate, with contributions from the interpretive humanities and social sciences. Establishing a multidisciplinary dialogue and approach to climate research past, present and future has arguably never been more important. This paper outlines developments in historical climatology research and highlights examples of integrated multidisciplinary approaches to climate, climatic variability and climate change research, conducted across the physical sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts. We highlight the international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative as one example of such an integrated approach. Initially, ACRE began as a response from climate science to the needs of the agricultural sector in Queensland, Australia for a longer, more spatially and temporally-complete database of the weather. ACRE has now evolved to embrace an international group of researchers working together across disciplines to integrate their efforts into a four-dimensional (4D) dynamical global historical climate-quality reanalysis (reconstruction).
Discipline
Environmental Sciences | Geographic Information Sciences
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Publication
WIREs Climate Change
Volume
7
Issue
2
First Page
161
Last Page
313
ISSN
1757-7780
Identifier
10.1002/wcc.379
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
ALLAN, R.; ENDFIELD, G.; DAMODARAN, V.; ADAMSON, G.; HANNAFORD, M.; CARROLL, F.; MACDONALD, N.; GROOM, N.; JONES, J.; Fiona WILLIAMSON; HENDY, E.; HOLPER, P.; PABLO, J.; HUGHES, L.; ARROYO-MORA, L.; BICKERS, R.; and BLIUC, A.-M..
Towards integrated historical climate research: The example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth. (2016). WIREs Climate Change. 7, (2), 161-313.
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.379