Changing seasonality, seasonal hazards and increased inter-annual variability indicate climate change. The ability to recognise these trends not only today, but also in the context of past regional climatic change will help in the detection of future environmental developments and through identification of characteristic patterns or cycles assist modellers in evaluating their future predictions.

TRICE will provide novel high resolution and process based studies at well-monitored sites in the Solling-Region, N-Germany, Oberammergau, S-Germany and at the large lysimeter facility of the Staatliches Umweltamt Münster in St. Arnold near Rheine.