Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics
www.zamg.ac.at

• Alpine wide collection of instrumental data
• Homogenising and standardized re-procession of instrumental data
• Eastern Alpine wide collection of glaciological data
• Glacier-climate variability analysis
• Climate variability statistics and description
  

University of East Anglia
www.uea.ac.uk

• Handling of global datasets
• Analysis of climate variability and climate change
• Tree-ring climatology on continental and global scale
• Integrated reconstruction and description of paleoclimate
• Analysis of physical properties of the climate system
  

GKSS Forschungszentrum
w3g.gkss.de/G/SAM/

• Regional climate modeling
• Consistency of model reconstructions with instrumental data
• Statistical analysis of modeled and observed climate variability patterns
  

Universität Heidelberg
www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de

• Ice core field work and precipitation sampling
• Water isotope analysis and ice core dating
• Glacio- meteorological data reduction
• Paleoclimate reconstruction based on stable isotope data
  

Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche
www.isac.cnr.it

• Alpine wide collection of instrumental data
• Homogenising and standardized reprosession of instrumental data
• Comparison of instrumental data with model reconstructions
• Climate variability statistics and description
  

World Glacier Monitoring Service / University Zurich
www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/

• Western Alpine wide collection of glaciological data
• Quality and representativity analysis of glaciological data
• Standardized reprocession of glaciological data
• Description of glacier variability in the Alps
• Glacier based climate variability analysis (glaciers as proxies and climate impact on glaciers)
  

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environment
www.lsce.cnrs-gif.fr

• Water isotope and climate modeling
• Air-firn transfer
• Stable water isotopes as climate proxies
  

Swiss Federal Research Institute
www.wsl.ch   www.dendro.ch

• Alpine wide collection of tree-ring data (focus on the western Alps)
• New tree-cores and core analysis (western Alps)
• Screening and standardized reprosession of tree-ring data
• Extraction of climate signals from tree-rings
  

Wood Biology Research Teem / University of Agricultural Sciences
www.holzbiologie.net

• East Alpine collection of tree-ring data
• New tree-cores and core analysis (eastern Alps)
• Screening and standardized reprosession of tree-ring data
• Extraction of climate signals from tree-rings
  
  

University of Innsbruck
www.uibk.ac.at

• East Alpine collection of tree-ring data
• East Alpine glacier data
• New tree-cores and core analysis (eastern Alps)
• Screening and standardized reprosession of tree-ring data
• Extraction of climate signals from tree-rings