Past4Future will ensure the widest international involvement with external programmes that already exist and are funded. The involvement of the Past4Future partners in these existing external programmes is strong and a strong collaboration with the related programmes will be continued to enhance the research and impact of Past4Future.
| External Programme |
Description of Programme |
Past4Future WP |
Past4Future interactions |
AMOCINT
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation During Interglacials |
ESF project that aims to study the last interglacial in the North Atlantic |
WP1.1, WP2.3 and WP4.3 |
Common interest in new paleoceanographic datasets. Common partners. |
CARBOOCEAN
Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment |
EU-integrated project
CARBOOCEAN is aimed at determining the ocean’s quantitative role for uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). |
WP3 |
Joint interest in biogeochemical feedbacks. Common partner institutes. |
CLIVAR
Climate Variability and Predictability |
WCRP project with a particular focus on the role of ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate |
WP1.1 |
Shared interest in climate variability at up to centennial timescales |
| COMBINE |
EU-intergrated project
Comprehensive Modelling of the Earth system for better climate prediction and projection, which is an which will run from 2009 to 2013 |
WP1.1 and WP1.3 |
We will use the Earth system models developed in COMBINE in Past4Future (COMBINE is for present day and next century) |
EPICA
European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica |
EU European deep drilling program |
WP1.1, WP1.2, WP2.3, WP3.1, WP3.2 and WP4.2 |
Rich data source for Antarctic ice, many common partners |
| GEOTRACES |
International study of the global marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes |
WP3.1 and WP4.3 |
Common interest in marine biogeochemical feedbacks, and marine proxies |
| Ice2sea |
EU FP7 Large Integrated Program (from 1 March 2009) |
WP4.1 |
Joint interest in ice sheets and sea level. Participation in joint meetings. Ice2Sea is for future predictions |
IMAGES
International Marine Past Global Change Study |
Europe-based program on paleoceanography |
WP1.1, WP2.1, WP4.2 and WP4.3 |
Provides access to data, samples and core sites |
IODP
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program |
International marine research program that explores Earth's history and structure recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks |
WP1.1, WP2.1, WP4.2 and WP4.3 |
Provides access to data, samples and core sites |
| NEEM |
IPY deep ice core drilling program in Greenland |
WP1.1, WP2.3 and WP4.1 |
High resolution measurements and data used in Past4Future |
PMIP
Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project |
Coordinating project for paleomodeling |
WP1.3 |
Protocols for interglacial model runs, participation in PMIP meetings. |
QUEST-DESIRE
Dynamics of the Earth System and the Ice-core Record |
Large UK-French project mainly on GHG over 800 ka |
WP3.1 and WP3.2 |
Measurements and modeling, shared partners and participation in meetings. |
RETRO
Response of the Tropical Atlantic Surface and Intermediate Waters to Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
ESF project that aims to reconstruct changes in tropical Atlantic thermocline and in overturning circulation |
WP1.1 and WP4.3 |
Common interest in paleo-MOC studies. Common partners |
SCOR
Scientific Committee on Ocean Research |
Leading non-governmental (ICS) organization for the promotion and coordination of international oceanographic activities. |
WP2.3, WP4.2 and WP4.3 |
Shared interest in paleoceanography and ocean circulation |
THOR
Thermohaline Overturning circulation - at Risk? |
FP7 Env. 2007 1.1.1.1 project
THOR aims to monitor and forcast the development of the North Atlantic Thermohaline circulation on decadal time scales |
WP4.3 |
Joint interest in understanding decadal- and multidecadal variability in THC. Common partner institutes. |
| WAIS and WAIS Divide |
NSF program into change in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and new drilling of West Antarctic ice core |
WP1.1 and WP4.1 |
Reconstruction of the ice sheet in the past, high resolution West Antarctic climate. Participation in WAIS and WAIS Divide meetings and field seasons |
Millennium
European Climate of the Last Milennium |
EU FP6 Project to reconstruct the climate of Europe over the last 1000 years using historical documents and natural archives. |
WP1.1, WP1.3 and WP2.2 |
General interest in high-resolution reconstruction and analysis of interglacial climate. |
| PACEMAKER |
Past continental climate change: temperatures from marine and lacustrine archives |
WP1.1 |
FP7-ERC project that combines aspects of microbiology, molecular ecology, lipid biogeochemistry and paleoclimatology to establish the novel MBT continental palaeothermometer.
Proxy development with potential for project-relevant reconstructions
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| MATRICS |
Modern approaches to temperature reconstructions in polar ice cores
|
WP1.1, WP1.2 and WP3.1 |
FP7-ERC project temperature reconstrucions from ice core proxies. |
ICEPROXY
Novel lipid biomarkers from polar ice: climatic and ecological applications
|
FP7-ERC project on establishing a sea ice proxy |
WP4.2 |
Interest in the proxy to obtain improved sea ice reconstrutions |
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