Although the understanding of climatic parameters and their complex interactions on different spatial and temporal scales is improving rapidly, there are still many challenging, unanswered questions with regard to potential future climates. The aim of the interdisciplinary symposium is to bring together scientists studying climate dynamics in a broad sense and to foster communication between scientists and interest groups applying scientific knowledge on mitigation and adaptation for climate change. For the detection, attribution and forecasting of climate change, the development of sophisticated climate models is fundamental. These requirements call for close collaboration and sharing existing knowledge between scientists from various fields, for example palaeoenvironmentalists, ecologists, atmospheric scientists, oceanographers and climate modellers, to name a few. Northwestern Europe and North Atlantic are known to be most challenging regions in climate models.
Different models predict very various climates for the region.
Hence, there is a need to bring together scientists studying different aspects of this region s climate to share knowledge and understanding of climate process. In the proxy record field, higher resolution thanks to new, advanced methods in sampling, detection, computing and data analysis allows interesting comparisons with available instrumental records. Sharing the understanding will be of great benefit to climate modellers who do their best to transform the process into a set of physical equations. The venue The city of Turku is a combination of past and present. Turku is also a city with long academic traditions dating back to the 17th century.