Palaeoclimate and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions Using a Computational Regional Environmental Modelling System and Statistic Methods (E06*)

• Subject Area: Physical Geography ; Palaeontology
• Term: from 2013 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 57444011

During the last CRC-phase the regional palaeoclimate model WRF-CEMSYS has been developed and successfully applied for the first time to provide high-resolution regional palaeoclimate data for studies on human presence under glacial conditions in Europe (Maier et al. 2016). In the 3rd Phase E6 will focus on reconstructing regional climates for time slices that are of key interest to the CRC-projects and on investigating the potentials and limiting factors (favourable and unfavourable conditions) for human presence in the whole CRC study area. Multiple time scales will be considered, ranging from synoptic, seasonal, annual, inter-annual, and decadal to centennial.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 806: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Andreas N. Hense, since 7/2017; Professor Dr. Martin Melles, until 6/3017; Professor Dr. Yaping Shao