Current Research


Impact and consequences of predicted climate change on Andean glaciation and runoff
2006-2009
NSF-EAR 0519415
P.I.: M. Vuille, in collaboration with G. Kaser (Univ. Of Innsbruck) and B. Mark (Ohio State Univ.)
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Documenting, understanding and projecting changes in the hydrological cycle in the
    American Cordillera

2006-2011
IAI-CRN II
P.I.: B. Luckmann (Univ. of Western Ontario), in collaboration with 20 Co-P.I.’s

Past and present climatic controls on the stable isotope composition of precipitation at low
    latitude proxy sites (Collaborative Research
)

2003-2006
NSF ATM-0317693
P.I.'s: M.Vuille and M. Chandler (Columbia Univ), Co-PI: M. Werner (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), in collaboration with R.S. Bradley and Richard Healy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Representative Publications:
  • Cruz. et al., 2005, Nature, 434, 63-66.
  • Cruz et al., 2005, Chem. Geology, 220,245-262.
  • Vuille et al., 2005, Geophys. Res. Lett. 32 (21), L21705, doi:10.1029/2005GL023876.
  • Vuille et al., 2005, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D23108, doi:10.1029/2005JD006022
  • Vuille & Werner, 2005, Climate Dyn., 25, 401-413, doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0049-9.
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Climatic Conditions in East Africa and Arabia - Implications for paleoclimatic interpretations
2003-2006
NOAA-OGP NA03OAR4310046
P.I.: M.Vuille, Co-PI.: R. S. Bradley

Representative Publications:
  • Vuille et al., 2005, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 (21), L21705, doi:10.1029/2005GL023876
  • Vuille et al., 2005, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D23108, doi:10.1029/2005JD006022
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Past Research
Past and modern variability in summer and winter rainfall on the Pacific slope of the Central
    Andes (Collaborative research)

2002-2005
NSF ATM-0214285
P.I.’s: M. Vuille, J. Betancourt and J. Quade (both Univ. of Arizona).

Representative Publications:
  • Vuille & Keimig,  2004, J. Climate, 17, 3334-3348.
  • Garreaud et al., 2003, Palaeo3, 194, 5-22.
  •  Latorre et al., 2005 , In: Smith, M. and P. Hesse (Eds.): 23 degrees south: Archaeology and Environmental History of the southern desert, 73-90.

Stable isotope variability in precipitation at low-latitude sites: An observational and modeling
    study
(Collaborative research)
2000-2002
NSF ATM-9909201
P.I.: R. S. Bradley (Univ. of Massachusetts)
Co-P.I.: M. Vuille and M. Chandler (Columbia Univ.) in collaboration with R. Healy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and M. Werner (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena)

Representative Publications:
  • Vuille et al., J. Geophys. Res., 2003a, 108, D6, 4174, doi:10.1029/2001JD002038.
  • Vuille et al., J. Geophys. Res., 2003b, 108, D6, 4175, doi:10.1029/2001JD002039
  • Bradley et al.,  Geophys. Res. Lett., 2003, 30 (4), 1174, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016546


Meteorological data acquisition: Sajama ice cap, Bolivia
1996-2000
NOAA NA66GP0404
P.I.: R. S. Bradley in collaboration with D.R. Hardy and M. Vuille

Representative Publications:
  • Hardy et al., 1998, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 1899-1913.
  • Vuille et al., 1998, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 11191-11204


Precipitation variability in the inter-tropical Andes - Climatological studies for paleoclimatic
    reconstruction

1996-1999
Swiss-NSF 8220-050401  & US-NSF ATM-9707698
P.I.: M. Vuille (Swiss-NSF) and R.S. Bradley (US-NSF)

Representative Publications:1996-1999
  • Vuille, 1999, Int. J. Climatol, 19, 1579-1600.
  • Vuille et al., 2000, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 12 447-12 460
  • Vuille et al., 2000, J. Climate, 13,  2520-2535.
  • Vuille & Bradley, 2000, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3885-3888.

Climate change in the arid Andes
1989-1995
Swiss NSF 21-27824.89 and 20-36382.92
P.I.: B. Messerli

Representative Publications:

  • Vuille and Ammann, 1997, Clim. Change, 36, 413-423
  • Vuille and Baumgartner, 1998, Geocarto Int., 13, 59-67

 
 


 
 

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