Objetivo The changes in mean atmospheric temperature and sea level predicted for the coming decades need to be viewed within the context of an anthropogenically perturbed natural system. However, there is not yet a proper understanding of the natural feedback mechanisms between ocean circulation, temperature change and sea level that form the basis for this system. As such, our ability to predict how the earth's climate will change over this century and over longer time-scales is severely hampered. STOPFEN will aggressively address this problem by developing more precise techniques and exploring new archives of inter-glacial climate change in close collaboration with climate modelers. The research will include an improvement in the dating precision of the records in corals, speleothems and marine sediments. In addition, available proxies will be refined and new geochemical tools will be developed in order to achieve a more realistic reconstruction of the above climate change parameters. Both steps are enabled by latest developments in organic and inorganic mass spectrometry, such as for example multi-collector ICPMS. The integration of these more precise proxy records will lead to a major step forward in the understanding of the temporal and thus causal relationships between changes in ice- volume, atmospheric temperature and ocean circulation. Phase relationships between the proxy records from different areas on Earth will also enable one to differentiate northern and southern hemisphere controls of major climatic changes in the past such as glacial-interglacial transitions. These data will serve as the basis for modeling past climate more realistically and lead to much improved predictive modeling. The modeling results are important for a precise understanding of the feedback mechanisms of man-made environmental change and future economic planning particularly in Europe, where predicted global climate change will have severe consequences. STOPFEN bring Ámbito científico natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologygeomorphologyspeleologynatural scienceschemical sciencesanalytical chemistrymass spectrometry Programa(s) FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002) Tema(s) Data not available Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación NET - Research network contracts Coordinador University of Cambridge Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Downing Street CB2 3EQ Cambridge Reino Unido Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (6) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE Francia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Europole Mediteraneen de l'Arbois, CEREGE 13545 GARDANNE Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZUERICH Suiza Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Sonneggstrasse 5 8006 ZURICH Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Parks Road OX1 3PR OXFORD Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITE DE DROIT D'ECONOMIE ET DES SCIENCES D'AIX-MARSEILLE III Francia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Europole de l'Arbois 13545 AIX-EN-PROVENCE Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITY OF BERNE Suiza Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 5,Hochschulstrasse 4 3012 BERN Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM - VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERWIJS Países Bajos Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV AMSTERDAM Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos
