UMass Climate System Research Center

Climate System Research Center
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  Climate System
  Research Center
  UMass Amherst
  Department of
    Geosciences
  236 Hasbrouck
  Amherst, MA
  01003 - USA
  ph: 413.545.0659
  fx: 413.545.1200
  paleoclimate.org

Research at the Climate System Research Center involves primary data, aquisition, including meteorological/glaciological observations and the recovery of paleoclimatic archives, often in remote area, as well as analysis of paleoclimate archives in the laboratory, instrumental data analysis, and modeling. The Center excels in research that involves both modern and paleoclimate data, including calibrating paleoclimatic records with instrumental data and integrating them with long-term instrumental records.

Research Focus: Data Aquisition - Process Studies - Calibration

	High-Resolution Studies of High Arctic Paleoclimate from Varved Lake Sediments
	Analysis of the Formation of Varves and Laminae at Lake Tuborg, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
	Seasonal to Decadal Resolution Studies of Laminated Marine Sediments at Saanich Inlet, B.C., Canada
	Meteorological Data Collection on the Summit of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
	Land-Atmosphere-Ice and Snow Interactions in the High Arctic: the Hazen Plateau, Ellesmere Island, Canada
	A Sedimentary Record of Hurricane/Storm Activity for Southern New England and Boston for the Last Millennium
	History of the Monsoon in Arabia: A Speleothem-based Paleoclimate Study
	Reconstruction of Late-Quaternary Paleotemperatures Across the European Loess Belt
	Paleoenvironments and Glaciation in Beringia
	Marine Climate and Relative Sea Level Across Central Beringia
	Arctic Climate Evolution: The Record from El'gygytgyn Crater Lake
	The Svalbard Research Experience for Undergraduates

Research Focus: Data Analysis - Modeling

	Regional-Scale Climate Variability on Decadal to Multi-Century Timescales
	A 19th Century Climate Data Catalog for New England and Adjacent States
	Impact and Consequences of Predicted Climate Change on Andean Glaciation and Runoff
	Past and Present Climatic Controls on the Stable Isotope Composition of Precipitation at Low Latitude Proxy Sites
	Climatic Conditions in East Africa and Arabia - Implications for Paleoclimatic Interpretations
	Past and Modern Variability in Summer and Winter Rainfall on the Pacific Slope of the Central Andes
	Reconstructing the Asian Monsoon Response to the Tambora Eruption: Model Simulations vs. Paleoclimate Data
	Interactive Coupling of GCMs to Predictive Vegetation/Ecosystem Models
	Coupling of Dynamical Ice-Sheet Models to GCMs
	Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE)

Past Research Projects