Description: Das Projekt "CECON- The Cuban-European Climate Connection" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie an der Universität Bremen durchgeführt. This project aims at reconstructing climate variability in Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico, with special interest on extreme events, such as tropical cyclones, using corals from within the Loop Current (LC), historical records, and numerical models. The LC feeds the Gulf Stream, which is crucial for the tropical heat transport to higher latitudes. Numerical models have confirmed that subtropical climate variability, and consequential changes in seawater properties, can affect both the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic climate. However, there is a lack of long-term records of seawater properties at key sites within the Atlantic, which can be used to validate the models. The skeletal chemical composition of Cuban corals can provide such records, though they have never been used to reconstruct oceanographic and meteorological parameters. Accordingly, corals will be used to investigate: (1) the impact of Cuban climate variability on the LC seawater properties and on the European climate, and (2) the effects of global climate variability and oscillations (e. g. ENSO, NAO) on the Cuban climate in order to improve our forecasting and diagnostic capabilities of extreme events. The latter has important economic repercussions in an oil producing area, such as the Gulf of Mexico, where the occurrences of cyclones there influence the international prices of crude oil. Comprehensive calibration experiments using multiple records to determine the climate-signal precision have been elaborated within this proposal to optimize the use of corals as records of climate variability.
Types:
SupportProgram
Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Öl ? Zyklon ? Erdöl ? Meteorologischer Parameter ? Lack ? Koralle ? Bremen ? Hurrikan ? Geografische Koordinaten ? Kalibrierung ? Meerwasser ? Bucht ? Chemische Zusammensetzung ? Futtermittel ? Klimavariabilität ? On-Site-Verfahren ? Golfstromsystem ? Modellierung ? Standortwahl ? Tropengebiet ? Nordatlantik ? Globales Klima ? Klima ? Kreislauf ? Bepreisung ? Atlantischer Ozean ? Extremereignis ? Dauer ? Leistungsfähigkeit ? Projekt ? Sicherungsanordnung ? Vorschlag ? Vorschläge ? Wärmetransport ? Zins ? besonder ? bewerten ? geschichtlich ? nördlich ? Buchgrundstück ? wichtig ? ökonomisch ? Experiment ? Koralle [Meerestier] ?
Region: Bremen
Bounding box: 8.83333° .. 8.83333° x 53.08333° .. 53.08333°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Deutsch
Time ranges: 2003-09-01 - 2006-09-01
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