Projects
Understanding the drivers and constraints of climate ambition: a study of the pledge-and-review mechanism under the Paris Agreement Ghent University
The aim of the proposed project is to determine and explain the drivers and constraints of climate ambition among the parties to the Paris Agreement. Central to this endeavour is the question of whether or not the Paris Agreement manages to function as a catalyst for increased ambition, or whether ambition levels are solely explained by domestic determinants. Through this approach, the proposal builds on the disconnect between comparative ...
Understanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland. KU Leuven
The Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is the second largest body of ice on Earth. Holding a potential of 7 m of global mean sea level rise, its rapidly increasing mass loss in response to global climate change will affect the entire planet. This mass loss is partly the result of a strongly decreasing surface mass balance (SMB), predominantly through increased meltwater runoff. Yet, the mechanisms involved in this decreasing SMB remain poorly ...
Miocene climate variations: the marine and terrestrial biotic response during key periods Ghent University
Tijdens het Mioceen (23 tot 5,3 Ma) greep een stapsgewijze, global afkoeling op. Het onderzoek tracht op hoge resolutie het tempo en de wijze te ontrafelen van de effecten op primaire producenten zoals dinoflagellaten. Ook wordt onderzocht of de biotische respons in het marine en continentale gebied in synchroon zijn of niet.
CONSOLIDATION: consistent climate data records of soil moisture and vegetation though data assimilation KU Leuven
The current wealth of microwave satellite observations and model simulations gives access to global estimates of soil moisture and vegetation. However, both sources of information are of insufficient quality to draw unequivocal conclusions about the short- to long-term variability in the water and carbon cycles over land. CONSOLIDATION will, for the first time, assimilate multiple available microwave-based soil moisture and vegetation ...
Rapid climate changes during the Mesolithic: impact on man and environment in the southern part of the NW European plain. Ghent University
During the Early Holocene, starting ca. 11650 cal BP (or ca. 9700 cal BC) and corresponding to the Mesolithic, at least four abrupt centennial-scale Rapid Climate Change events (RCC) have occurred, which have been globally identified by recent climate records. However, still little is known about the impact of these RCCs on Mesolithic societies and their ecosystems. The ambition of this multidisciplinary project is to assess the effects and ...
Influence of a future climate and interspecific interactions on the stress response of plants. University of Antwerp
Influence of a future climate and interspecific interactions on the stress response of plants. University of Antwerp
Combining geological constraints and modelling to reconstruct the Late Quaternary climate and sea-level history in Dronning Maud Land and Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica Ghent University
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is probably the largest unknown in identifying regional contributions to the global budget of postglacial sea-level rise Given the huge volume of the EAIS and indications of a more dynamic behaviour than often assumed, this information is crucial for estimating its contribution to future sea-level changes The overall objective is to improve our understanding of the climatic and glacial history of the EAIS ...
Combining geological constraints and modelling to reconstruct the Late Quaternary climate and sea-level history in Dronning Maud Land and Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica Vrije Universiteit Brussel
a more dynamic behaviour than often assumed, this information is crucial for estimating its contribution to future sea-level changes. The overall objective is to improve our understanding of the climatic and glacial history of the ...