Project Details
Projekt
SPP 1266: Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)
Subject Area
Geosciences
Term
from 2007 to 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 25575884
The Priority Programme INTERDYNAMIC aims at a better understanding of climate dynamics using quantitative paleoclimate analyses in view of creating more reliable scenarios for future climate change. INTERDYNAMIC is based on an integrated approach in paleoclimate research, in which all available paleoclimate archives (terrestrial and marine as well as ice cores) are to be combined in order to yield a comprehensive and quantitative analysis of global environmental variations. Moreover, through a close linkage between paleoclimate reconstructions and results from Earth-system models detailed insights into the dynamics of climate variations will be gained, which are of great relevance in assessing future climate changes.
The planned investigations should focus on the interglacials of the late Quaternary (incl. their onset and end; pre-industrial) since approx. 1 Ma BP. With respect to the global aspects of climate change, the focus will be on global and continent- or basin-wide scales. Specifically, the following key questions will be the foci:
(1) Are the amplitudes of natural climate variations on timescales of several years to millennia?
(2) Do patterns of climate variability vary in time and space?
(3) Do abrupt changes in the large-scale circulation of the Atlantic Ocean occur in interglacials?
(4) Do biogeochemical feedback mechanisms control the natural limits of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols?
(5) Which linkages exist between climate and pre-industrial cultures?
The basis for addressing these questions lies in a combination of climate information with high temporal resolution from ice cores, marine and terrestrial archives with up-to-date Earth-system modelling.
INTERDYNAMIC will consists exclusively of collaborative, so-called Dual+ projects, in which at least two of the research fields ice cores, marine archives, terrestrial archives and Earth-system modelling are represented. Through the Dual+ projects INTERDYNAMIC strives for a close collaboration across disciplines, between research locations as well as between university and non-university partners. All partners within INTERDYNAMIC are obliged to submit project data in a contemporary way to a central database and to provide contributions for public outreach activities.
The planned investigations should focus on the interglacials of the late Quaternary (incl. their onset and end; pre-industrial) since approx. 1 Ma BP. With respect to the global aspects of climate change, the focus will be on global and continent- or basin-wide scales. Specifically, the following key questions will be the foci:
(1) Are the amplitudes of natural climate variations on timescales of several years to millennia?
(2) Do patterns of climate variability vary in time and space?
(3) Do abrupt changes in the large-scale circulation of the Atlantic Ocean occur in interglacials?
(4) Do biogeochemical feedback mechanisms control the natural limits of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols?
(5) Which linkages exist between climate and pre-industrial cultures?
The basis for addressing these questions lies in a combination of climate information with high temporal resolution from ice cores, marine and terrestrial archives with up-to-date Earth-system modelling.
INTERDYNAMIC will consists exclusively of collaborative, so-called Dual+ projects, in which at least two of the research fields ice cores, marine archives, terrestrial archives and Earth-system modelling are represented. Through the Dual+ projects INTERDYNAMIC strives for a close collaboration across disciplines, between research locations as well as between university and non-university partners. All partners within INTERDYNAMIC are obliged to submit project data in a contemporary way to a central database and to provide contributions for public outreach activities.
DFG Programme
Priority Programmes
International Connection
Austria, Switzerland, USA
Projects
- A new hydrogen-isotope approach to understand North African monsoon changes in the Holocene (HYDRACENE) (Applicants Schefuß, Enno ; Werner, Martin )
- Climate Sensitivity during and between Interglacials (ClimSens) (Applicant Mudelsee, Manfred )
- Comparison of climate and carbon cycle dynamics during late Quaternary interglacials using a spectrum of climate system models, ice-core and terrestrial archives (COIN) (Applicants Brovkin, Victor ; Prange, Matthias ; Tarasov, Pavel )
- Comparison of the Holocene and Eemian paleohydrological cycle: model-data synthesis of monsoon precipitation amplitudes in key regions (Applicants Schneider, Ralph ; Schneider, Birgit )
- Coordination of DFG Priorty Research Program "Integrated analysis of interglacial climate dynamics" (INTERDYNAMIK) (Applicant Schulz, Michael )
- Detecting Holocene changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Integration of Proxy Data and Climate Simulations (DAMOCLES) (Applicant Mulitza, Stefan )
- Dynamics of Mid-latitude/ Mediterranean climate during the last 150 ka: Black Sea /Northern Anatolian Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions (DynNAP) (Applicants Behling, Hermann ; Fleitmann, Dominik )
- Evaluation of Eemian and Holocene Climate Variability: Synthesis of marine archives with climate modelling (HolEem) (Applicants Jungclaus, Johann ; Lohmann, Gerrit ; Schneider, Ralph )
- Global synthesis of surface conditions and climate trends during the MIS11 interglacial (GLOSINT11) (Applicant Kucera, Ph.D., Michal )
- Holocene climate dynamics and biogeochemical cycles in the Mediterranean Sea (HOBIMED) (Applicant Schmiedl, Gerhard )
- HOlocene Variability in the Arctic gateway (HOVAG) (Applicants Prange, Matthias ; Spielhagen, Robert ; Stein, Rüdiger )
- Hydroclimatologic variability in the Panama Bight region during Termination 1 and the Holocene (HydroPaTH) (Applicants Prange, Matthias ; Schulz, Michael )
- LOOP Current variability - its relation to meridional overturning circulation and the impact of Mississippi discharge (Applicant Nürnberg, Dirk )
- MIneral dust variability in the Southern Ocean (MISO) (Applicants Mikolajewicz, Uwe ; Wegner, Anna )
- Paleoenvironmental reconstructions from Chilean lake, fjord, and marine sediments and paleoclimate modelling with special emphasis on variations of the westerly wind belt during the Holocene (HoloParc) (Applicants Arz, Helge W. ; Lamy, Frank ; Prange, Matthias )
- PRecipitation In past Millennia in Europe - Extension - back to Roman times (Applicants Luterbacher, Jürg ; Zorita, Eduardo )
- Quantified impact of Holocene climate change on Neolithic development, land use, and anthropogenic emissions with feedback on climate (GLUES-QUICC) (Applicants Fraedrich, Klaus ; Lemmen, Carsten )
- Seasonality and interannual to centennial climate variability in the Caribbean during the last interlglacial - Combining coral records, stalagmite records and climate models (CaribClim II) (Applicants Felis, Thomas ; Lohmann, Gerrit ; Mangini, Augusto ; Scholz, Denis )
- Spatial Variations of the Phaseshift between Ocean Surface Warming, Evaporation and Changes oft Continental Ice Volume at Terminations I and II (P.O.E.T) (Applicant Eisenhauer, Anton )
- Variability of climate in Central Europe during the late Holocene from dendrochronological and documentary data (HOLOFLOOD) (Applicant Glaser, Rüdiger )
- Variation of precipitation and flood dynamics in Central Europe during the Holocene on the basis of dendrochronological and documentary data (HOLOFLOOD) (Applicants Glaser, Rüdiger ; Küppers, Manfred )
- Vegetation, Climate, Man - Holocene Variability in monsoonal Central Asia (HOLOCENE CV) (Applicants Claußen, Martin ; Herzschuh, Ulrike )
- What ends an Interglacial? Feedbacks between tropical rainfall, Atlantic climate and ice sheets during the Last Interglacial (EndLIG) (Applicants Govin, Aline ; Prange, Matthias )
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Michael Schulz
