EU-Project CONTINENT: GFZ

GER 1500 Spektrometer (GFZ Potsdam) und Wasserprobennahme (IGB Berlin) an Bord des russischen Forschungsschiffes Vereshchagin (SB Russische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

A) RGB composite (6, 4, 2) SeaWiFS water leaving reflectances/ B) PC1 colour coded: blue < violett < brown from low to high SPM and cDOM/ C) PC5 colour coded blue < green from low to high Phytoplankton

EU-Project CONTINENT

CONTINENT (High Resolution CONTINENTal Palaeoclimate Record from Lake Baikal) is an EU-Project on the climatic history of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia. The objective of the project is to span the last 150,000 years with a continuous high resolution palaeoclimate record from a high mid-latitude continental setting.

The set of actuo-reference data of climate proxies for Lake Baikal is created by limnological, sedimentological and geochemical examination on the CONTINENT field expeditions 2001 to 2003. When no field data are available, the occurrence and behavior of climate proxie such as algae pigment concentration,phytoplankton composition, and detrital input can be monitored over space and time by continuously acquired Ocean Colour satellite data (SeaWIFS and MODIS, NASA).

Monitoring of the Brandenburg and Mecklenburg Lakes (Germany)

EU-Project CONTINENT

Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity