Inhaltsbereich
Projects of Section 5.2
Himalaya: Modern and past Climates (HIMPAC)
HIMPAC is an Indo-German initiative targeted towards understanding the modern and palaeomonsoon variability on seasonal to decadal time scales over the Indian subcontinent.
Investigations of the East Asian monsoon system over the last glacial-interglacial cycle are based on sediments of small lakes with high sedimentation rates from South- and Northeast-China. Main aspects of palaeoclimatic reconstructions are variations of precipitation and dust flux, as well as vegetation dynamics.
Palaeoclimate and Atmospheric CO2 during the Last Glacial–Interglacial Cycle: Combined Reconstructions from Varved Lake Sediment Archives in NE-China
Varved lake sediment records offer the unique opportunity to evaluate the dynamics of environment and climate change with seasonal resolution and precise and independent absolute chronologies.
Lake Suigetsu Varves
Varve chronology and high-resolution vegetation and climate dynamics in central Japan during the last glacial (ca. 10-50 kyr BP) derived from the Lake Suigetsu sediment record
The Near East region encompasses a unique set of contrasting environments, where changes in hydrological regimes are probably the most prominent expressions of climate variability. Environmental changes in this region had a profound impact on prehistoric and early historic cultural evolution of mankind.
Dead Sea sediments
Laminated sediments from the Dead Sea are unique archives with the potential for reconstructing paleoclimate, paleoseismicity and paleomagnetism in the Near East during the Holocene.
Geochronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments
Several joint expeditions by Russian, American, and German scientist mainly in 1998, 2000, and 2003 revealed that the sedimentary record of 12 km wide lake El'gygytgyn (Chukotka Peninsula, Northeast Siberia) filling a meteorite impact crater, has a high potential for a long-term paleoclimate study.
Black Sea paleoclimates and paleomagnetics
Oscillating between lacustrine and marine stages during the Late Quaternary, the Black Sea holds unique sedimentary archives with potential for high-resolution paleoclimate reconstructions.
DecLakes
DecLakes, a project within the ESF Eurocores EuroCLIMATE program, will provide six well-dated high-resolution records of the oxygen-isotope composition of past precipitation derived from ostracods in the profundal lake sediments from the Northern, Western and Southern margin of the Alps and from North-eastern Poland.
Lakes Holzmaar (HZM) and Meerfelder Maar (MFM), located only a few km apart in the Eifel Mountains, Germany, contain long annually laminated sediment records.
Lago Grande di Monticchio is the larger of two adjacent maar lakes.
The Piànico Interglacial Project
The palaeolake deposits of Piànico (Southern Alps, Bergamo, Italy) include a continuous succession of ca 15,500 exceptionally preserved calcite varves that formed under peak interglacial conditions.
Lake Challa - Kenya/Tanzania
CHALLACEA
The ESF EuroCLIMATE project CHALLACEA aims to provide a continuous high-resolution multi-proxy record of temperature and moisture-balance variability in equatorial East Africa from the Last Glacial Maximum (25 ka BP) to the present.
Tropical Climate Dynamics – Insights from the Cariaco Basin and Mexican lakes
Annually laminated sediment sequences along a transect from the Cariaco Basin (off Venezuela) across lakes in East and Central Mexico to the Pacific coast are ideal archives to study Holocene rainfall distribution in Mesoamerica, determined by ITCZ dynamics.
Palaeo-Maar Mýtina: Late Quaternary Sediments and Palaeoclimate
Newly recovered Mýtina Palaeo-Maar is investigated with a multi-disciplinary approach and used as an outstanding late Quarternary palaeoclimate archive.
BioArchive Tswaing Crater
Sediment cores from the Tswaing Crater are one of the few long continental climate archives of southern Africa. They are used to unravel the southern hemisphere climate history of the last 200 ka.
Central Asian Global Change Observatory
Central Asia, extending between the Caucasus and the eastern Tibetan Plateau, with a semiarid/arid belt with water shortage to the west and a glaciered mountainous area with very unstable surface conditions to the east, holds a key position for understanding geodynamic and climate processes.
Flood layers in recent sediments from Lago Maggiore
Within this project in cooperation with the CNR institute for ecosystem research (ISE) in Pallanza spatial patterns of sediment deposition related to major flood events are investigated.
The origin of non-hydrocarbon gases in the North-German Basin: Sources, migration paths and relative timing of nitrogen release
The North German Basin forms part of the Mid European Basin where natural gas produced from Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic reservoirs mainly sourced from coal-bearing strata and marine shales of Carboniferous age.
Central Asian Climate Dynamics
CADY
This project aims to reconstruct and (semi)quantify the Holocene climate variability and regional hydrology in the Central Asia along two W-E transects sandwiching the Tibetan Plateau and one N-S transect cutting across the Plateau.
Completed Projects
Selection of completed projects.