
European summer temperatures since Roman times
Euro-Med2k consortium, led by Luterbacher J
Environmental Research Letters, vol. 11(2), 024001, 2016https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024001
Number of pages: 12
This article is a contribution from members of PAGES Euro-Med2k working group.
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"European summer temperatures since Roman times"
Authors: Luterbacher J et al.
Environmental Research Letters 11, 024001
Published online 29 January 2016
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024001
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> Euro-Med2k Environmental Research Letters PAGES press release (English, 25 Jan 2016, PDF)
> Swansea University press release (English, 28 January 2016, PDF)
Figure 1: European summer temperature variations 137 BCE to 2003 CE and associated uncertainties. Copyright: CC BY-SA 4.0 J.P. Werner/EuroMed2k Members.
The Euro-Med2k Working Group focuses on creating spatial reconstructions and modeling past climate in the Europe and the Mediterranean region (including southern Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa) over the last 2,000 years.
It is the successor to the paleo-component of the MedCLIVAR project, a project endorsed by PAGES.
During phase 2, Euro-Med2k aims to compile a wide range of proxy data and substantially expand the EuroMed2k database.
Over the next few months around 70 records will be added, representing different resolutions and covering different age ranges from several centuries to most of the Holocene. The records will cover the area from 25-70°N and 10°W-45°E, with geographical foci on the Iberian Peninsula, Alpine arc, and Fennoscandia. Particular emphasis will be given to so far under-represented marine and terrestrial records of lower resolution to help fill seasonal, temporal, and spatial gaps in the existing network
Ultimately, Euro-Med2k aims to provide a long-term perspective on the modern European climate by performing model-data comparison assessments, and supplementing detection and attribution studies.
More at: http://www.pastglobalchanges.org/ini/wg/euro-med2k/intro
Past Global Changes (PAGES) was established in 1991 to facilitate international research into understanding past changes in the Earth system to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. It receives funding mainly from the Swiss and US national science foundations. PAGES is a core project of Future Earth.
More at: http://www.pastglobalchanges.org/
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