Quantitative reconstructions are increasingly important for understanding past climates and benchmarking paleoclimate models. Continental archives can have high temporal resolution and provide direct information about atmospheric and hydrological processes, and associated paleoenvironmental change. The variety of continental archives and multi-proxy reconstructions allow the disentangling of local to supra-regional environmental conditions, and evaluation of potential anthropogenic influences on paleoenvironments.

This session highlights recent advances in the innovative and quantitative reconstruction of continental paleoenvironments. We invite investigations including but not limited to carbonates, sediments, and biological proxies. We encourage studies involving proxy calibrations that incorporate modern transfer functions, forward and/or geochemical modeling to predict proxy signals, and quantitative estimates of past temperature, hydroclimate and paleoenvironmental change. We also invite reconstructions over large spatial scales and paleoclimate data assimilation. This session offers a forum to discuss recent innovations and future directions in the development of continental paleoclimate proxies on seasonal to multi-millennial timescales.