Climate and History OPHELIE meeting, Friday 1st December 2006

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Campus du CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Where?

Salle de réunion/bibliothèque du LSCE-Vallée, campus du CNRS.

When coming with public transportation (i.e. from inside Paris, Orly or CDG airports), take the RER B train towards “Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse” (Schedules can be found at http://www.ratp.fr/).

Take off at “Gif-sur-Yvette”.

Go the other side of the railway (i.e. where the station building stands) using the underground passage.

Then take the “rue de la croix” (going down) for ~100 m.

Take the “rue Alphonse Pécard” for ~300 m. You will see an open marketplace on your left, then the street will walk up towards the “place de l’église”.

At the “place de l’église”, turn left and take the “rue Henri Amodru” (going slightly down) until you see the Post Office.

At the Post Office, turn right to take the “Avenue Emile Thuau”, shortly followed by the “Avenue de la Terrasse”.

Then, you are on the CNRS Campus (http://www.cnrs-gif.fr/pub/plancampus.html):


The “chambre d’hôtes” is in Batiment 31, and LSCE is in Bâtiment 12.

Preliminary programme

Titles will certainly change. Thank you for sending me definitive titles as soon as possible. The ideal format would be a talk of 20mn and allow for 10mn of questions/discussions.

 

9:30 – 10:00 

 

WELCOME

10:00 – 10:30

P. Yiou (LSCE)

Overview of the OPHELIE Project

10:30 – 11:00

R. Brazdil (U Marsaryk)

Historical-climatological research in the Czech Republic

11:00 – 11:30

E. Garnier (U Caen/LSCE)

Les perspectives phénologiques (vigne exclue) du programme OPHELIE

11:30 – 12:00

E. Le Roy Ladurie (Collège de France)

History of climate during the 17th and 18th centuries

12:00 – 12:30

G. Demarée (Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique)

The catastrophic floods of February 1784 in and around Belgium: a Little Ice Age event of frost, snow, river ice, breaking of the ice, and floods

12:30 – 14:00

LUNCH at the CNRS restaurant (buffet style)

 

14:00 – 14:30

S. Durost (U Besançon)

A tree ring database

14:30 – 15:00

V. Daux (LSCE)

Grape harvest dates in France

15:00 – 15:30

I. Chuine (CEFE)

French and Belgian historical phenological observations. A French network and database for phenological observations

15:30 – 16:00

S. Brewer & J. Guiot (CEREGE)

The Mediterranean drought fluctuation during the last 500 years: a tree-rings/climate model approach

16:00 – 16:30

G. Hoffmann (LSCE)

Water isotope series from different archives documenting climate variability during the last millenium

17:00– 18:00

DISCUSSION

 

 
Note: Confirmed titles are in blue.

Miscellaneous

For those who are already there on Thursday and stay in Gif, we can have diner at a restaurant in Gif (e.g., “les Saveurs Sauvages”, facing the RER station). Unfortunately, I will not be able to be among you after 18:00 on Friday (after the meeting), but I am sure that there will be a way to entertain our guests.