Climate of the Past Discussions www.clim-past-discuss.net 1814-9340 1814-9359 2 6 2006 10.5194/cpd-2-1155-2006 http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/2/1155/2006/ http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/2/1155/2006/cpd-2-1155-2006.html http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/2/1155/2006/cpd-2-1155-2006.pdf 1155 1186 2006-11-20 Mid-Holocene climate change in Europe: a data-model comparison S. Brewer brewer@cerege.fr J. Guiot F. Torre CEREGE, CNRS/Université Paul Cézanne UMR 6635, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 4, France IMEP/Université Paul Cézanne UMR 6635, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 4, France We present here a comparison between the outputs of a set of 25 climate models run for the mid-Holocene period (6 ka BP) with a set of palaeo-climate reconstructions from over 400 fossil pollen sequences distributed across the European continent. 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