Palaeoclimate: reducing the uncertainties - 6-9 July 2004, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Brussels, 12 May 2004

This conference will be hosted by the Utrecht Centre of Geosciences, on 6-9 July 2004 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. It will be organised in the following seven sessions:

• The thermohaline circulation in a warm world.
• Deglaciation, Greenland - Antarctica. Does it happen?
• Frequency of extreme events. Human activity impact. (Hydrology signal clearer than temperature, 3000 years)
• The carboncycle in the past
• Methane, last ice age. (New isotopic methods). Hydrates from ice and ocean records.
• Interglacial
• Medieval warming

  The scientific coordination is organised by the programme committee:

  
  Prof. Sir N. Shackleton, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
  Prof. A. Berger, UCL, Belgium
  Prof. L. Starkel, Krakau University
  Prof. H. von Storch/Dr E Zorita, GKSS, Germany
  Prof. K. Briffa, UEA, United Kingdom
  Prof. J. Oerlemans, UU, the Netherlands
  Dr. D. Raynaud, Research Dir, CNRS LGGE, France

  More information is available in the

  preliminary programme (pdf).

  Participants are kindly requested to fill in the

  registration form.

  DG Research
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html
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