Mediterranean Climate Variability and Predictability (MedCLIVAR)

Grants awarded 2011 & 2010

Exchange Grants

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EG/3499 G Ruggieri (IT) B Mauz (UK)02/05/2011 
(4 weeks)
Mid-Holocene relative sea–level change in the Gulf of Gabès (southern Tunisia)
EG/3497G Liguori (ES)V Artale (IT)26/04/2011 
(5 weeks)
 Validation of a Regional Climate Coupled Model for the Mediterranean area   
EG/3144L Congedi (IT)M Collins (UK)15/01/2011 
(8 weeks)

Assessing of the uncertainty in Climate Models and estimate of the Future

EG/3135M Reale (IT)U Ulbrich (DE)01/11/2010 
(12 weeks)
Cyclone climatology in the Mediterranean region : comparison of existing algorithms for cyclone tracking
EG/3130I Bulic (HR)F Kucharski (IT)01/11/2010
(16 weeks)
Tropical Pacific influences on European winter climate variability and their potential future changes
EG/3090P Zunino Rodríguez (ES) M Tsimplis (UK)01/11/2010 
(7 weeks)
Detection and correction of XBT errors in the Western Mediterranean. The influence in the thermosteric and halosteric component of the sea level.  
EG/2909A Seim (DE) K Treydte (CH)03/05/2010 
(18 weeks)
Latewood density of pine trees for a 1000-year temperature reconstruction in Albania 
EG/2902L Carro-Calvo (ES)J Luterbacher (DE)01/11/2010 
(18 weeks)

 Mediterranean winter precipitation Fields Reconstruction back to AD 1700 using Neural networks  

EG/2645F Adloff (DE)F Somot (FR)08/01/2010 
(14 weeks)
Regional Modelling of the Mediterranean Sea: optimisation of the atmospheric
forcing within a paleo-simulation perspective   

Short Visits

 

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SV/4186  C Athanassas (GR)F Torrado (ES)05/05/2011 
(15 days)
Reconstruction of Mid-Late Quaternary climatic conditions in the periphery of the Western Mediterranean, as inferred from alluvial and loess deposits from Gran Canaria, Spain  
SV/3719A Toreti (CH)R Vitolo (UK) 27/02/2011 
(15 days)
Extreme precipitation events and large scale atmospheric circulation