Objective
To evaluate the security of a high level waste repository it is necessary to determine how future climate changes will affect the safety of the repository. The magnitude and likelihood of these changes can be inferred from the study of past evolution in Spain and other Western Mediterranean countries. This project is concerned with the study of climatological changes occurred during the last 2 million years in the Western Mediterranean regions, which will be of importance for developing scenarios for the safety analysis of a high level repository in Spain. Even though the techniques to be used in the study will provide information with different time scales, special emphasis will be placed on climate changes during the last 1000 years.
To evaluate the security of a high level radioactive waste respository it is necessary to determine how future climate changes will affect the safety of the repository. The magnitude and likelihood of these changes can be inferred from the study of past climate changes. However, to date data about past climate evolution in Spain and surrounding countries is scarce. This project is concerned with the study of climatological changes occured during the last 2 million years in the Western Mediterranean regions, which will be of importance for developing scenarios for the safety analysis of a high level repository in Spain. Even though the techniques to be used in the study will provide information with different time scales, special emphasis will be placed on climate changes during the last 1000 years. A publication summarizing all previous work on the synthesis of the environment in Spain over the last 2 million years is currently close to completion. It includes chapters on glacial and periglacial environments, neotectonics, marine vegetation, vertebrates and invertebrates and evolution of the environment in Spain during historic periods.
A definitive work plan has now been drawn up for research on the quaternary paleoenvironmental evolution of a sector of the Tajo valley, and study and dating of travertines in Spain.
Work programme:
The project has been subdivided into the following tasks:
1) Synthesis of the environment in Spain over the last two million years. Period of performance: June 1991 to April 1993.
2) Paleoclimatic and environmental study of Quaternary deposits in the Tajo Valley. Period of performance: June 1991 to April 1994.
3) Study and dating of travertines in Spain as a paleoclimatic and paleo-environmental index. Period of performance: June 1991 to April 1994.
4) Climatic reconstruction of the last thousand years in Spain on the basis of dendrochronological series. Period of performance: June 1994 to April 1995.
5) Paleo-environmental reconstruction and construction of future evolution scenarios. Period of performance: June 1991 to April 1995.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies nuclear engineering nuclear waste management
- natural sciences biological sciences zoology invertebrate zoology
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28043 Madrid
Spain
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