Chrysophycean cysts from europe as a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (CREATE)

Project Information

CREATE

Grant agreement ID: EVK2-CT-2000-50007

Project closed

Start date 1 March 2001

End date 28 February 2003

Funded under

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

Total cost € 114 272,00

EU contribution € 114 272,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

Objective

The first objective is to develop an air-temperature transfer function, based on chrysophycean cysts, to be applied in different lake ecosystems throughout Europe. The second is to validate the developed transfer function using high resolution 210Pb sediment records and compare the reconstructed temperatures with the instrumental record. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to build on the cyst calibration data-set, that is already available for the Pyrenees (105 lakes), specifically by adding new lakes that increase the dissolved organic carbon and temperature ranges of the data-set. These conditions can be covered adding lakes from Scotland and Norway (90 lakes). Test sediment cores will be taken from Norway and Scotland and dated by 210Pb methods. The air temperature reconstruction will be validated by comparing the results from sediment analyses with the available instrumental climate record. In particular an attempt will be made to identify cyst signals associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation in the recent record, and propagate backwards in time the signal of the NAO. The most innovative aspect is the development of a powerful new tool for reconstruction of continental air temperatures. It is particularly relevant to problems of climate variability over the Holocene, and would be especially valuable for application to sites in north-west Europe that are strongly influenced by Atlantic Ocean pressure and sea-surface temperature variability.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes › north atlantic oscillation

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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

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Bedford Way 26 ; WC1H 0AP LONDON ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data