| Title |
Work Package(s) involved |
Lead Beneficiary Number |
Means of verification |
Date |
| D 5.2.1: Website with climate courses for PhD / MSc students. | | | |
JAN 1 -
DEC 31 |
| D 5.2.1: PhD, MSc and BSc theses work for a number of students. | | | |
JAN 1 -
DEC 31 |
| M 2.3.2: New database completed |
2.3 |
6 |
Database |
JUN |
| M 4.3.1: Completion of database depicting abrupt changes in the properties and circulation of the individual constituents of NADW, tropical thermocline changes, AMO, and tropical hydrology |
4.3 |
2 |
Database |
JUN |
| D 1.2.1: Database of synchronized paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic records relevant for the quantification of climatically important parameters during T1, T2 and subsequent warm interglacial periods PIG and LIG. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 1.3.2: Publication of an initial benchmark of IPCC" type climate models using quantitative proxy records to be used in the IPCC AR5 report. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 2.3.1: New high-resolution marine and ice proxy datasets published. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 2.3.2: Synthesized database of high-resolution proxy data published. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 3.1.2: Time-slice simulations of ESMs with diagnostic carbon cycle and transient runs of EMICs for the present interglacial. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 3.1.3: High-resolution data on atmospheric 13CO2 during the present and last interglacials. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 3.2.1: Obtain high-resolution CH4 data for the present and the previous interglacial and complement them with new isotope data. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 3.2.2: Complement the existing N2O concentration data with isotope data. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 3.2.3: Simulations with ECHAM-MPIOM-JSBACH model for selected time slices of the present and past interglacials. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 4.2.1: Database of marine proxy data on sea ice for the time periods: LIG, PIG, based on existing data and new data from Arctic regions and Southern Ocean. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 4.2.2: Best Antarctic and Greenland ice core sea ice proxy datasets, based on existing and new measurements, with quantification based on calibration and transport model studies. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| D 4.3.2: New reconstructions of decadal-centennial scale variability in the individual constituents of THC (upper and lower branches and source regions) over the PIG and LIG. | | | |
JUN-30 |
| M 1.1.2: All snapshot simulations in Task 1.1.1.2 to be uploaded to the PMIP3 database (starting in DEC-2010) |
1.1 |
9 |
Database |
DEC |
| M 1.3.2: Quantitative reconstruction of atmospheric circulation modes for various time slices are available for analysis |
1.3 |
10 |
Report |
DEC |
| M 1.3.3: Data-base of model results is available in order to evaluate model performance |
1.3 |
10 |
Database |
DEC |
| M 2.2.1: Solar forcing time-series required for transient modelling made available through PMIP3 website |
2.2 |
13 |
Database |
DEC |
| M 2.2.2: Volcanic forcing data-set required for transient modelling made available through PMIP3 website |
2.2 |
13 |
Database |
DEC |
| M 2.3.3: Testing model application hypothesis |
2.3 |
6 |
Report |
DEC |
| M 2.3.4: Formal identification of thresholds/tipping points |
2.3 |
6 |
Report |
DEC |
| M 2.3.5: Remarks about tipping elements |
2.3 |
6 |
Report |
DEC |
| M 4.1.1: Database of LIG relative sea level data and incorporation into isostatic models |
4.1 |
8 |
Database |
DEC |
| M 4.1.2: Completion of ice-sheet modelling tasks – ice sheet topography/volume estimates and incorporation of improved understanding of grounding line retreat |
4.1 |
8 |
Report |
DEC |
| M 4.2.2: Synthesis of past sea ice changes simulated by models over interglacials |
4.2 |
4 |
Report |
DEC |
| M 4.2.3: Test of the validity of the data assimilation method at high latitudes |
4.2 |
4 |
Report |
DEC |
| M 5.1.3: Third Annaul meeting on results produced with a focus on the models and their interaction with data |
5.1 |
1 |
Workshop |
DEC |
| M 5.2.1: Creating of net work of climate courses |
5.2 |
4 |
On website |
DEC |
| D 1.1.1: Database with low-resolution proxy data, providing information on the spatiotemporal structure of the present and last interglacials, including trends and variability. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 1.1.2: Summary of the GCM and EMIC transient simulations and their implications for understanding of LIG and PIG trends and variability. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 1.1.4: Report on the relative importance of difference forcing mechanisms for LIG and PIG trends. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 1.2.2: Sea level records for T1 and T2 allowing the quantification of the phase relationships between variations of regional climate, deglacial meltwater input, greenhouse gases and orbital parameters. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 1.2.3: Quantification of the impacts of T1 and T2 on deep ocean ventilation and the marine carbon cycle, and feedbacks on subsequent interglacial climate variability. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 1.3.3: Simulations with data assimilation over the present and last interglacials available on databases. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 2.1.1: Database with freshwater data documenting the amplitude, timing and source of freshwater discharges that acted as forcing. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 2.2.1: Database including standardized volcanic and solar forcing to be used in the transient experiments. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 3.1.4: Production and synthesis of high resolution records of iron and other bioactive trace elements from ice cores of the northern hemisphere. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 4.1.2: New higher-precision direct measurement of sea level changes from far-field tropical areas using techniques targeted at high stands and periods of rapid changes for PIG and LIG. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 4.1.3: Best estimates of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet topography/volume during PIG and in particular LIG using gas content of ice cores, the application of RSL "fingerprinting" techniques and the modelling of the isotopic content of ice. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 4.1.4: Using recent advances in understanding grounding line retreat to make realistic comparisons of the processes which caused the GIS and AIS to retreat during the LI, to understand their relative sensitivity to warming. | | | |
DEC-31 |
| D 5.4.1: PAGES newsletter on Past4Future project results. | | | |
DEC-31 |
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