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The overarching motivation for all 22 Past4Future partners to work with paleoscience archives is the ambition to understand the climate system and the importance of predicting future climate changes. Past4Future improves our knowledge by looking into the past and will adress these key questions:
* What is the risk of abrupt changes during interglacial periods?
* Can we understand the greenhouse gas records of the interglacial periods?
* What is the risk of rapid collapse of the ice sheets?
* Did ocean circulation change significantly during the interglacial periods?

The program informs the international debate on climate system stability and the dissemination of results will be targeted to both citizens and governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. It leaves a legacy of improved understanding of past drivers of sea level changes, changes of sea ice, and of greenhouse gas concentrations. The website also hosts a paleoclimate metadatabase.

Project information

Lead

KØBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET (DK) Ivan KRISTOFFERSEN

Partners

* UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (UK)
* UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL (CA)
* UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (CA)
* UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UK)
* PAGES ASSOCIATION (CH)
* UNIFOB AS (NO)
* NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK)
* THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (UK)
* CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (IT)
* COMMISSARIAT A L' ENERGIE ATOMIQUE (FR)
* AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (ES)
* EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY ECNU (CN)
* UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA (ES)
* UNIVERSITAET BREMEN (DE)
* ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT FUER POLAR- UND MEERESFORSCHUNG (DE)
* UNIVERSITAET BERN (CH)
* VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG (NL)
* AARHUS UNIVERSITET (DK)
* UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN (BE)
* CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (FR)
* MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. (DE)

Source of funding

FP 7

Reference information

Websites:
http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/94121_en.html

Published in Climate-ADAPT: Jan 1, 1970

Keywords:
Climate models, datasets, paleoscience
Climate impacts:

Ice and Snow, Sea Level Rise

Adaptation Approaches:

Observations and Scenarios

Sectors:

Non specific

Duration:
2010/1/1-2014/12/31
Geographic characterisation:

Global

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