This book reports on efforts by geoscientists and climate modellers (KIHZ) to assess natural climate variability during the Holocene. Part 1 is an overview of the climate system and its dynamics. Part 2 describes the efforts of the KIHZ members to reconstruct past climate by using proxy data derived from ice cores, lake sediments, tree rings and corals, statistical analyses and climate models.

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1 The Holocene: Considerations with Regard to its Climate and Climate Archives.- 2 Nonlinear Dynamics of the Climate System.- 3 A Discourse About Quasi-realistic Climate Models and Their Applications in Paleoclimatic Studies.- 4 Holocene Climate Variability from Model Simulations - State of the Art.- 5 Marine Paleoclimatology - Motivation, Tools, and Results.- 6 Corals as Climate Archive.- 7 Annually Laminated Lake Sediments and Their Palaeoclimatic Relevance.- 8 Interpreting Climate Proxies from Tree-rings.- 9 The Environmental and Climate Record in Polar Ice Cores.- 10 Reconstructing Large-scale Variability from Palaeoclimatic Evidence by Means of Data Assimilation Through Upscaling and Nudging (DATUN).- 11 Mid- to Late Holocene Lake Ecosystem Response to Catchment and Climatic Changes - A Detailed Varve Analysis of Lake Holzmaar (Germany).- 12 Holocene Palaeoclimate in the Saharo-Arabian Desert.- 13 Transfer Functions for Paleoclimate Reconstructions - Theory and Methods.- 14 Transfer Functions for Paleoclimate Reconstructions - Applications.- 15 Climate Information from Stable Hydrogen and Carbon Isotopes of C3 Plants - Growth Chamber Experiments and Field Observations.- 16 Detection of Climate Modes as Recorded in a Seasonal-resolution Coral Record Covering the Last 250 Years.- 17 Phase Stability of the Solar Schwabe Cycle in Lake Holzmaar, Germany, and GISP2, Greenland, between 10,000 and 9,000 cal. BP.- 18 Variable Freshwater Input to the Arctic Ocean During the Holocene: Implications for Large-Scale Ocean-Sea Ice Dynamics as Simulated by a Circulation Model.- 19 Forced Climate Variability During the Last Millennium with the Earth System Model CLIMBER-2.- 20 The Contribution of High-resolution Magnetostratigraphic Analyses to Paleoclimatic Reconstructions.- 21 Internal Climate Variability in Global and Regional Climate Models.- 22 Climate Diagnostics by Adjoint Modelling: A Feasibility Study.- 23 Evidence for the Climate During the Late Maunder Minimum from Proxy Data and Model Simulations Available Within KIHZ.- References.