GLOBAL CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE : ROLE OF OCEAN CIRCULATION

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: EV4C0043

Project closed

Start date 1 October 1987

End date 30 September 1990

Funded under

• Multiannual R&D programmes (EEC) in the field of the environment - Climatology and natural hazards - , 1986-1990

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Objective

THE HELP QUANTIFY THE ROLE OF OCEAN CIRCULATION IN THE CO2-BUDGET.
A method for classifying remotely sensed data involving a segmentation based training system has been developed.

A methodology has been developed, involving a segmentation based training programme, which overcomes some of the problems involved in image classification of remotely sensed data. By using this system it has been demonstrated that significantly better performance can be achieved than with existing maximum likelyhood classification techniques. This methodology is embodied in a suite of FORTRAN based computer programs which have been developed in a video home system (VHS) environment on a VAX 11/750 computer.
DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT CORES FROM THE EAST AND WEST PACIFIC OCEAN WILL BE SELECTED FOR STUDY BY STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSES. INITIALLY THE UPPER PART OF SEVERAL ALREADY IDENTIFIED CORES (V19-25, V24-110, ODP677) WILL BE SAMPLED TO SELECT THE MOST SUITABLE FOR FURTHER WORK.

SEDIMENT SAMPLES WILL BE SIEVED TO FACILITATE EXTRACTION OF THE FORAMINIFERAL SHELLS FOR ANALYSIS; FORAMINEFERA WILL BE EXTRACTED USING STANDARD MICROSCOPE METHODS; THE SELECTED SPECIMENS WILL BE ANALYSED MASS SPECTROMETRICALLY FOR THEIR OXYGEN- AND CARBON- ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION.
SPECIMENS WILL ALSO BE EXTRACTED FOR RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS.

BY THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR TWO ADDITIONAL PACIFIC DATA SETS WILL HAVE BEEN GENERATED, AND CORED FROM THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC (AND PERHAPS INDIAN) OCEAN WILL HAVE BEEN SELECTED.

ALSO DURING THE FIRST YEAR EXTENSIVE DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN GIF-SUR-YVETTE AND CARMBRIDGE WILL TAKE PLACE SO THAT THE TWO GROUPS CONVERGE ON THE BEST TIME-SCALE AND CORRELATION METHODS TO GENERATE THE NECESSARY TIME-SERIES FOR MODELLING THE HISTORY OF OCEAN CIRCULATION AND PALAEOCHEMISTRY CHANGE.ALSO DURING THE FIRST YEAR THE MODELLING GROUP AT HAMBURG WILL BE VISITED TO ENSURE THAT THE MODELLING EFFORT THERE IS OPTIMALLY LINKED TO THOSE PARAMETERS THAT CAN BE RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE GEOLOGICAL DATA.

DURING THE SECOND YEAR CORES FROM THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN WILL BE ANALYSED. BY THIS STAGE THE MODELLING WILL HAVE PROGRESSED FAR ENOUGH SO THAT MODEL PREDICTIONS MAY INFLUENCE THE CHOICE OF CORES FOR ANALYSIS.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• humanities › history and archaeology › history
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › artificial intelligence › computer vision › image recognition
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › microscopy
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › data science › data exchange

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Programme(s)

• FP1-CLIMAT 3C - Multiannual R&D programmes (EEC) in the field of the environment - Climatology and natural hazards - , 1986-1990

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Trinity Lane, The Old Schools, ; CB2 1TN CAMBRIDGE ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (2)

CENTRE FAIBLES RADIOACTVITES

• EU contribution: No data
• Total cost: No data

MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT F METEOROLOGIE

• EU contribution: No data
• Total cost: No data