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.
Call for proposal
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CSC - Cost-sharing contractsCoordinator
LL59 5EY Gwynedd
United Kingdom
Participants (11)
Trondheim
2721-866 Amadora
106 91 Stockholm
PA37 1QA Oban
28359 Bremen
8000 Aarhus C
5007 Bergen
107 Reykjavik
KY16 9ST St Andrews
36200 Vigo
PL4 8AA Plymouth