Important Milestones
Entries will become active, as soon public information is available.
- Kick-off meeting
- Updated temperature and precipitation datasets ready for internal project use
- Existing glaciological data reprocessed
- Implementation of the water isotope physics into REMO completed
- Homogenization programs and procedures for instrumental records tested and ready for use
- Existing tree-ring data centralised and reprocessed
- Analysis of chronology uncertainty and climate sensitivity completed
- Recovering an ideal ice core at Colle Gnifetti (Monte Rosa) down to bedrock
- Instrumental metadata collected and reprocessed
- Completion of REMO 0.5 degree run
- Glaciological database extended by additional data
- First annual meeting. Participants send databases and details of other known sources for the GAR
- Evaluation of the REMO “control” run including the water isotopes completed
- 1st annual report to EC
- Tree-ring fieldwork to update network
- Assessment of isotope sensitivity versus seasonal and glacier flow forcing
- Completion of REMO 1/6 degree run
- Report on the representativity of glacier variability data within GAR
- Instrumental dataset plus description for external users on project homepage
- Laboratory Processing of new tree-ring material completed
- Site and Regional tree-ring chronology construction completed
- Glacier dataset plus description for external users on project homepage. New and improved datasets in the databases of World Glacier Monitoring Service and World Date Center-A for Glaciology
- Completion of between variable comparisons with the GAR
- Establishment of consistent and appropriate ice core chronologies
- Analysis of tree-ring chronology uncertainty and climate sensitivity completed
- Assessment of the consistency of the observed and simulated data completed
- Classification of weather situations in terms of the corresponding isotope pattern
- General 200 years GAR climate variability features detected
- Temperature and Precipitation reconstructions from tree-ring data complete
- Temperature reconstructions from ice cores complete
- 2nd annual meeting
- Completion of the comparisons with hemispheric-scale datasets
- 2nd report to EC
- Influence of topography on alpine circulation determined: Catalogue of mesoscale circulation patterns
- Influence of the resolution of topography on circulation patterns determined
- General GAR and European to global features statistically analysed
- Glacier model-based simulations complete
- 3 dimensional climate reconstruction completed
- Integrated histories of temperature and precipitation based on combined tree-ring and ice-core reconstructions complete
- 3rd annual meeting
- Determination of the surface temperature and precipitation variability related to mesoscale circulation variability over the GAR
- Explanation of the statistical analysis
- Comparative analyses of GAR Temperature and Precipitation reconstructions against extracted GAR and wider Northern Hemisphere/Global reconstructions based on naturally and anthropogenic forced climate model simulations
- Final report to EC including TIP
