Third International Palaeontological Congress (IPC3)

15. Modelling the climate of Palaeozoic Earth
Keynote speaker: Jeff Kiehl
Organisers: Thijs Vandenbroucke, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz & Howard Armstrong
Sponsor: British Geological Survey

This symposium will document major steps in the evolution of Palaeozoic climate, its links to biotic change, and the ways in which these climates can be tracked by fossil proxies and simulated by advanced numerical computer models. Themes to be considered are:

1. Climate through the Proterozoic –Phanerozoic transition;
2. Climate events, extinction and recovery [e.g. SPICE, end-Ordovician, P-T]
3. Modelling Palaeozoic climates with GCMs;
4. Icehouse to Greenhouse transitions (e.g. Ordovician-Silurian, Carboniferous-Permian), their control mechanisms and comparisons with Cenozoic and recent climate change;
5. proxies for Palaeozoic climate (fossils and geochemical data).

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