Annual to Decadal Variability in Climate in Europe

ADVICE- Annual to Decadal Variability in Climate in Europe

The Project

There are two main goals of the project ADVICE. The first is to characterize as fully as possible the variability of climate over greater Europe, including Iceland, the Near East, and parts of North Africa, over the last 215 years. Historical instrumental data from greater Europe will be used to identify months with anomalous circulation between 1780 and 1860, and to reconstruct these months as daily-scale synoptic charts. ADVICE aims to characterize the "pre-industrial" climate variability, as a measure of the background noise of natural climate variability, against which any anthropogenic global change signal must be detected.

The second goal of ADVICE is to reconstruct climate during the Late Maunder Minimum (LMM), from 1675-1715, using documentary sources. The Late Maunder Minimum is a time of known climatic variability over Europe.

The project ADVICE is funded by the European Commission The Partners

The institutes involved in ADVICE are:

• Climatic Research Unit, UK
  Prof. Trevor Davies, email: t.d.davies@uea.ac.uk
  Dr. Phil Jones, email: p.jones@uea.ac.uk
  Dr. Keith Briffa , email: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk
  Mr. John Kington
  Ms. Vicky Slonosky, email: v.slonosky@uea.ac.uk
  
• Icelandic Meterological Office, Iceland
  Dt Trausti Jonsson, email: trausti@vedur.is

• University of Lund, Sweden
  Dr. Lars Barring, email: lars.barring@natgeo.lu.se

• University of Wuerzburg, Germany
  Dr. Rudiger Galser, email: geog01l4@rzbox.uni-wuerzburg.de
  Dr. Jucundus Jacobeit, email: geog044@rzbox.uni-wuerzburg.de

• University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  Prof. Panagiotis Maheras, email: maheras@olymp.ccf.auth.gr

• University of Barcelona, Spain
  Prof. Janvier Martin-Vide, email: jmartin@trivium.gh.ub.es

• University of Berne, Switzerland
  Prof. Christian Pfister (Dept. of History), email: pfister@hist.unibe.ch
  (University of Berne Department of History ADVICE homepage )
  Prof. H. Wanner (Dept. of Geography)
  (University of Berne, Department of Geography ADVICE homepage )

• Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark
  Dr. Eigil Kaas, email: ek@dmi.min.dk

• University of Lisbon, Portugal
  Dr. Fatima Nunes, email: mfn@evunix.uevora.pt
  Dr. Maria Alcoforado, Geography Department, University of Lisbon.