Enhanced cooperation among climate and paleoclimate communities with specific opportunities for the Pannonian Basin

International cooperation among acronym organizations, in this case WCRP and PAGES, often exists more easily in paper agreements than in practical reality. Fortunately, reality offers several opportunities. In the realm of climate modeling, the paleoclimate community has developed the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) as a valued and endorsed component of CMIP6 - the sixth phase of WCRP's Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (Eyring et al. 2015). PMIP represents a mutual effort to analyze climate system response to forcings and major feedbacks for past climates outside the range of recent variability and to thereby better assess the credibility of current climate models