The National Science Foundation is inviting grant applications
for research on key geological, chemical, and biological records of
climate system variability to provide insights into the mechanisms and
rate of change that characterized Earth's past climate variability,
the sensitivity of Earth's climate system to changes in forcing, and
the response of key components of the Earth system to these changes.
Important scientific objectives of P2C2 are to: 1) provide
comprehensive paleoclimate data sets that can serve as model test data
sets analogous to instrumental observations, and 2) enable
transformative syntheses of paleoclimate data and modeling outcomes to
understand the response of the longer-term and higher magnitude
variability of the climate system that is observed in the geological
record.