Bonomo, Sergio and Lirer, Fabrizio and Ferraro, Luciana and Albano, Ludovico and Alberico, Ines and Anzalone, Erlisiana and Barra, Rita and Cappelli, Carlotta and Cascella, Antonio and Castellano, Marco and Cavallina, Chiara and Di Stefano, Enrico and D'Oriano, Claudia and Ferraro, Rosanna and Francesconi, Matteo and Gazzola, Raffaele and Giordano, Laura and Lurcock, Pontus C. and Margaritelli, Giulia and Marsella, Ennio and Pelosi, Nicola and Punzo, Michele and Vallefuoco, Mattia and Tarallo, Daniela and Zarcone, Giuseppe (2013) Final Report of the Oceanographic Survey NextData201. Project NEXTDATA WP-1.5 : Paleoclimatic Data from Marine Sediments. Technical Report. IAMC-CNR, Napoli. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
The retrieval of series of proxy data on the past climate will serve to acquire a deeper understanding of the climate system and a more accurate prediction of its future development, as a priority task for the scientific community. In particular, the analysis of climate data of the past is an essential tool for studying the dynamics of the earth's climatic system in conditions different from present ones, and irreplaceable for testing the validity of medium- and long-term forecasting models. The determination of the influence of anthropogenic impacts on the planet’s environment is predicated on a clear understanding of the natural ways in which the earth's climate responds to the complex set of external forcings. Therefore, in recent decades, many national and international research groups have focused attention on the study of the climate evolution in late-Quaternary sediments from the Mediterranean area. By virtue of its close relationship with continental masses subject to different climatic processes, the Mediterranean basin permits the documentation of climate evolution both globally and in the Northern Hemisphere. Finally, it is worth noting that shallow sea (continental shelf) areas are natural repositories for the monitoring of short-term climate change and anthropogenic impacts on the marine system. To make available information on climate history and environment yielded by marine sediments, this WP will be dedicated to analyzing and, where possible, collecting cores of marine sediments, especially those drilled in shallow sea environments, and focusing on climate dynamics in the Mediterranean over past centuries. During its course, the project will analyse and, where possible, sample marine sediment cores in continental shelf environments and in different sectors of the Mediterranean basin. Previous studies have indicated them as key sites for the identification of major short-term climate fluctuations, due to global and local forces active during the Quaternary and particularly in the past thousand years. In fact, the possibility of enriching the databases referring to this time interval (to date, still limited to the Mediterranean) will provide new working hypotheses for the implementation of numerical models that attempt simulate how the Mediterranean, in particular the marine-coastal sector, has responded to past climate dynamics (Medieval Warm Period / Little Ice Age transition, Little Ice Age, the Industrial Age, and Modern Warming). The cores obtained will be the focus of multidisciplinary studies involving national and international research groups.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Technical Report) |
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| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 550 Scienze della Terra 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 550 Scienze della Terra > 551 Geologia, Idrologia, Meteorologia > 551.4 Geomorfologia e idrosfera > 551.46 Idrosfera, Geologia sottomarina e Oceanografia (Classificare qui le acque marine, l'Idrografia, l'Oceanografia fisica; le opere interdisciplinari sulla Scienza del mare, sugli oceani e i mari) > 551.468 Geologia sottomarina (Classificare qui il fondo oceanico) |
| Depositing User: | Dott. Sergio Bonomo |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2013 07:21 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2014 12:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/7177 |
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