HOLIVAR2006 Abstracts
Millennium: European climate of the last millennium.
Danny McCarroll (Project Co-ordinator)
Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
Contact: Danny McCarroll (millennium@swan.ac.uk)
"Millennium" is an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework VI and involves 39 partners from across Europe. The central aim is to determine whether the magnitude and rate of 20th Century climate change is unprecedented over the last millennium. This will be achieved by reconstructing the climate of Europe at high (annual or near-annual) resolution for the last 1000 years using a combination of documentary and natural proxy evidence. There are four sub-groups arranged according to the sources of evidence used: instrumental and documentary archives, tree rings, sediments, marine archives, and a fifth group focused on data analysis and climate modelling. The project started on the 1st of January 2006 and will run for four years. The budget of 12.6 million euros has been distributed between the partners, but a small 'collaboration fund' has been established to facilitate collaboration with scientists working on similar problems who may wish to visit "Millennium" partner laboratories or attend project meetings.