Summary
This project seeks to bring together European scientists interested in climate variability of the last 6,000 years. The scientists are palaeoclimatologists, climate historians and climate modellers. The over-arching research questions concern how and why climate has varied naturally on different time-scales (annual to centennial) over this period and how an understanding of past variability can improve the predictability of climate models. Answers to these questions require interactions amongst scientists that as yet have not taken place and that are best promoted by an ESF programme, building on the aims and objectives of two global projects sponsored by both the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (PAGES) and the World Climate Research Programme (CLIVAR). More
Duration
Five years, from 2001 to 2006.
