IMAGES

The International Marine Past Global Change Study

Homepage: http://www.images-pages.org

Funding organisation: International

Type: International research project

Runtime: 1994-

Coordination: Ralph Schneider, University of Kiel

Data curator: Stefan Rothe, University of Bremen

IMAGES data sets, archived in the data library PANGAEA®

Scientific objectives

The overriding IMAGES science issue is to quantify climate and chemical variability of the ocean on time scales of oceanic and cryospheric processes; to determine its sensitivity to identified internal and external forcing, and to determine the role of the ocean in controlling atmospheric CO2.

In order to achieve these scientific objectives, IMAGES proposes to coordinate a global program to collect and study marine sediment records to address three fundamental questions:

  1. How have changes in surface ocean properties controlled the evolution of global heat transfer through the deep and surface ocean and thereby modified climate?
  2. How have changes in ocean circulation, ocean chemistry, and biological activity interacted to generate the observed record of atmospheric pCO2 over the past 300 kyrs?
  3. How closely has continental climate been linked to ocean surface and deep water properties?

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