EMULATE: European and north atlantic daily to multidecadal climate variability

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 01.0558

Key words (English)

Environmental Protection; Forecasting; Meteorology; Resources of the Sea; Fisheries

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: EVK2-CT-2002-00161

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.4a.2 Global change, climate and biodiversity

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

EMULATE proposes to create daily gridded fields of mean-sea-level pressure (MSLP) over the extra tropical North Atlantic and Europe (25¦N to 70¦N; 70¦W to 50¦E ona5¦ by 5¦ grid spacing), 1850 to date. The data will be used to develop time series of characteristic atmospheric circulation patterns for each season, sampled on sub-monthly time scales. Variations and trends in these patterns, will be related to those evident in large-scale sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and other possible oceanic fluctuations including those of the thermohaline circulation, with the aid of atmosphere only and coupled atmosphere and ocean models. Variations in the incidence of extremes of temperature and precipitation across Europe will be related to fluctuations and trends in the atmospheric circulation patterns on daily to multi-decadal timescales and, for temperature, to SST and possible anthropogenic factors.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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Swiss Project-Number: 01.0558