PROSIMUL - WHAT IT WANTS

Project members and cooperation partners intend to achieve project goals through the implementation of specific work packages and by addressing the following questions:

• Provide a robust tree-ring based decadal radiocarbon calibration time series for the Late Glacial and the Holocene.
  
  
• Synchronization of PROSIMUL Late Glacial dendrochronlogical and lacustrine records with ice core records.
  
  
• Characterization of modern lake system dynamics and processes and identification of the geo-biologic response to climate.
  
  
• Investigation of proxy signal generation processes in lakes and development of transfer functions as basis for quantitative reconstructions of changes in temperature and precipitation.
  
  
• Evaluation of stable isotope proxies as climate indicators.
  
  
• Detection of periods with extreme climates; timing, magnitude and rates of episodes of rapid climate and ecological changes.
  
  
• Extraction of quantitative climate proxies from synchronized records to draw a consistent picture of climate development within Europe and along a transect across the Alps.
  
  
• Analyze climate teleconnections between Europe, the Americas and Asia based on synchronized records.
  
  
• Detection of regional climate forcing mechanisms.
  
  
• Comparison of modern climate variability with natural annual to centennial climate variability during specific time periods.
  
  
• Comparison of numerically simulated climate variability as derived from ECHO-G and other available GCMs runs with natural climate variability derived from proxy-data for different time periods.
  
  
• Develop scenarios for the regional impact of future climate change.