PACLIVA: Patterns of climate variability in the north Atlantic

• Unité de recherche: PCRD EU
• Numéro de projet: 02.0421
• Titre du projet anglais: PACLIVA: Patterns of climate variability in the north Atlantic

Mots-clé (Anglais)

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

Autre Numéro de projet (Anglais)

EU project number: EVK2-CT-2002-00143

Programme de recherche (Anglais)

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

Description succincte (Anglais)

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Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

The project intends to significantly extend observations of decadal to century scale climate variability of the North Atlantic Ocean and its impact on climate change in Europe beyond the instrumental period, which at best only covers the last 1-2 centuries. It will provide critical data for testing/validating climate models over time scales of high importance for climate prediction. The approach has a comprehensive geographical coverage, very high temporal and significant spatial resolution, and will identify the degree to which the oceanic anomaly patterns associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) reflect the main long term mode of variability of North Atlantic climates. This will be done by the use of state of the art palaeo-observation methods, building upon a unique European world class network of collaborating laboratories.

Références bases de données (Anglais)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 02.0421