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Session 2: Quantitative reconstruction of past terrestrial and aquatic environments. Linking observed and model data: data-model comparison

Coordination: Florence Mazier (GEODE), Jean-Philippe Jenny (CARRTEL), Odile Peyron (ISEM)

Keywords: Models, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, data analysis, Quantification of past climate, erosion or vegetation, data model comparison

Human activities have had a significant impact on terrestrial and aquatic environments, particularly since the emergence of the first agricultural societies. In addition to a solid chronological framework, understanding these impacts requires a thorough understanding of the anthropogenic and climatic processes that control changes of past environments during the Anthropocene and Holocene. Over the past few decades, the use of models to quantitatively reconstruct the fluctuations of climate, vegetation, and sediment, at a local and global level, and annual to much more long-term scales, has increased. This session aims to bring together new research on conceptual, methodological or modeling approaches to study the changes of past land cover, climate, erosion rates and processes over the long term. Contributions that link and/or compare observed and model data will be particularly relevant for this session.