International Symposium on Past Millennium Climate of East Asia: Reconstruction, Modeling and Analysis (PaMCEA)
Release date:
2025.09.25
International Symposium on Past Millennium Climate of East Asia: Reconstruction, Modeling and Analysis (PaMCEA)
Event Timing: October 23rd, 2025 (Thursday) Venue: Conference Hall, RCEC Building, Academia Sinica
This symposium aims to bring together researchers working on the reconstruction, modeling and data analysis of the climate change in the past millennium in East Asia. East Asian climate change has strong monsoonal influence which makes its physical system complicated and our understanding of such a system is limited. In this symposium, we shall summarize the present state of the scientific research on the reconstruction of relevant climate data including those derived from documentary and environmental sources. We shall also discuss the modeling of the East Asian climate in the past millennium using AGCM and coupled models and examine the pros and cons of various parameterizations in the models. We shall also look at the results of climate data analysis in East Asia and try to understand the climate processes based on fundamental atmospheric physics and climate model simulation results. By fostering dialogue among experts in reconstruction methodology, paleoclimate modeling, data analysis and assimilation techniques, the symposium seeks to identify key challenges, share recent advances, and promote collaborative efforts to improve our understanding on the climate change in East Asia. A particular focus will be placed on integrating high-resolution proxy data with model simulations to enhance our understanding of the drivers and their impacts on past climate variability. We will also examine the implication of the new findings for future climate projections.
Three main themes in the symposium are:
Theme 1: Climate reconstruction for East Asia for the past millennium based on historical documentary and environmental sources
Theme 2: Numerical modeling for the East Asian climate in the last millennium
Theme 3: Analysis of climate trends in the last millennium in East Asia based on reconstruction data and model results
Organizers: Academician Pao K. Wang, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica Prof. Huang-Hsiung Hsu, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica Prof. Kuan-Hui Elaine Lin, Graduate Institute of Sustainability Management and Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University
Contact: Ms. Lin (02) 2787-5971 or yushiuan@as.edu.tw