Late holocene shallow marine environments of europe (HOLSMEER)

Objective

Modelling predictions of the climate system's response to anthropogenic forcings are severely inhibited by inadequate understanding of natural climate variability. HOLSMEER proposes to improve our understanding of this natural variability through the search for, interpretation, and quantification of, climatic variability in high-resolution shallow marine records from Atlantic Europe covering the last 2000 years. Long-term instrumental time series of marine and atmospheric parameters will be used in a new way to calibrate the marine palaeoclimate observations, extending the marine record to the period before systematic recording of environmental parameters was undertaken, and therefore providing a basis for establishing the natural variability of the oceanic component of the climate system in the critical North Atlantic region prior to significant anthropogenic forcing of the environment. These data will validate numerical models of the climate system.

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-2. - Key action Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF WALES - BANGOR

Address

Askew Street
LL59 5EY Gwynedd
United Kingdom

Participants (11)

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY

Norway

Address

Leiv Erikssonsvei 39
Trondheim

INSTITUTO GEOLOGICO E MINEIRO

Portugal

Address

19-2,Estrada Da Portela, Zambujal, Apartado 7586
2721-866 Amadora

STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITET

Sweden

Address

8C,svante Arrhenius Vèg 8C
106 91 Stockholm

THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE

United Kingdom

Address

Dunbeg
PA37 1QA Oban

UNIVERSITAET BREMEN

Germany

Address

Klagenfurter Strasse
28359 Bremen

UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS

Denmark

Address

C.f. Moellers Allee 120
8000 Aarhus C

UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN

Norway

Address

41,Allégaten 41
5007 Bergen

UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Iceland

Address

Dunhagi 3
107 Reykjavik

UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS

United Kingdom

Address

North Haugh
KY16 9ST St Andrews

UNIVERSITY OF VIGO

Spain

Address

Campus Lagoas-marcosende S/n
36200 Vigo

University of Plymouth

United Kingdom

Address

Drake Circus
PL4 8AA Plymouth