Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change
Our working group analyses regional and continental climate variations in Europe, the Mediterranean, South America and China covering the past 2000 years. Special focus is on the understanding of natural climate variations and the role of anthropogenic climate change as well as the comparison of statistical based climate reconstructions and palaeo RCM simulations. Another focus is set on the statistical modelling and the analysis of extreme weather and climate events such as heat waves, heavy rainfall and drought in Hesse, Germany, U.K, the Mediterranean and other areas of Europe.