HOLIVAR2006 Abstracts
Climate variability and the carbon cycle (past, present, and future): the EuroCLIMATE Programme for coupled climate models and multi-proxy climate reconstructions at European and regional scales.
EuroCLIMATE Programme Community (http://www.esf.org/euroclimate)
Contact: Bernard Avril (euroclimate@esf.org)
EuroCLIMATE is an ESF-EUROCORES programme calling for European fundamental research on the relationships between climate variability and the (past, present, and future) dynamics of the carbon cycle. Multi-proxy climate reconstructions at Holocene and longer time scales from all available natural archives bring the marine, the terrestrial, and the ice-core communities together on cross-cutting issues, such as development and validation of new climate proxy indicators, obtaining a common timeframe across archives, and validation of coupled climate models used for global warming prognoses on European and regional scales.
The EuroCLIMATE programme is supported by national and regional research funding agencies from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden, and by the European Science Foundation through contract ERAS-CT-2003-980409 of the European Commission, DG Research, Framework Programme 6. At present it funds nine multi-national collaborative research projects, some primarily pursuing methodological advances (PALEOSALT, CASIOPEIA, ISOTRACE), others focusing on reconstructing climate-biosphere and climate-carbon cycle interactions (MERF, DECVEG, TREE14, CHALLACEA, DECLAKES, RESOLuTION) at various time and spatial scales.