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COMFORT

Our common future ocean in the Earthsystem – quantifying coupled cycles of carbon, oxygen, and nutrients for determiningand achieving safe operating spaces with respect to tipping points

09/2019 - 08/2023

EU Horizon 2020

https://comfort.w.uib.no/

COMFORT will close knowledge gaps for key ocean tipping elements within the Earth system under anthropogenic physical and chemical climate forcing through a coherent interdisciplinary research approach. It aims to provide added value to decision and policy makers in terms of science based safe marine operating spaces, refined climate mitigation targets, and feasible long-term mitigation pathways. The project focuses on the triple threat of (1) warming, (2) deoxygenation, and (3) ocean acidification, and how to optimally deal with this threat. Links to other Earth system reservoirs will be included in the assessment where relevant.

 

CRiceS

Climate Relevant interactions and feedbacks: the key role of sea ice and Snow in the polar and global climate system

09/2021-08/2025

EU Horizon 2022

https://www.crices-h2020.eu/

The CRiceS project focuses on improving model predictions of the role of polar processes in the climate system that consists of the oceans, ice and snow cover, and the atmosphere. It is crucial to understand the role of the polar processes, such as feedback loops, in polar and global climate. One of the main ways scientists can improve our understanding of environmental change is to combine knowledge from different disciplines in a coordinated way.

 

ESM2025

Earth system models for the future

06/2021-05/2025

EU Horizon 2020

https://www.esm2025.eu/

Earth system models for the future is an ambitious European research project on Earth System modelling that will build a novel generation of Earth system models fitted to support the development of mitigation and adaptation strategies in line with the commitments of the Paris Agreement.

 

ICOS

Integrated Carbon Observing System

EU FP7 Infrastructure Programme

https://www.icos-cp.eu/

ICOS is a research infrastructure that has been born out of European scientific communities’ grand idea of having a consistent, sustained measurement network operating under exactly the same technical and scientific standards to enable high-quality climate change research and increase usability of the research data.

 

INTAROS

Integrated Arctic Observation System

https://intaros.nersc.no/content/objectives-and-concept

The overall objective is to build an efficient integrated Arctic Observation System (iAOS) by extending, improving, and unifying existing systems in the different regions of the Arctic.

The objectives will be achieved by mobilizing and increasing cooperation between entities operating existing European and international observing systems and infrastructures (in-situ and space-based). INTAROS is implemented through a set of multidisciplinary workpackages covering the main spheres of the Arctic environment.  In this process, the relevant stakeholder groups are engaged, including the climate, and forecasting modelling groups, environmental agencies, industry, decision makers and local communities.

 

VERIFY

Verifying greenhouse gas emissions

2019-2023

EU Horizon 2020

https://verify.lsce.ipsl.fr/

VERIFY develops a system to estimate greenhouse gas emissions to support countries’ emission reporting to the UN Climate Change Convention Secretariat. The emissions are estimated based on land, ocean and atmospheric observations. The project focuses on the three major greenhouse gases responsible for global warming: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

 

SEAS project (post-doc)

Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability

2022-2025

EU Horizon 2020

https://www.uib.no/en/seas#

SEAS is a career and mobility fellowship programme for 37 postdoctoral research fellows within marine sustainability. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034309. Marine and coastal areas face multifaceted challenges, threatening biodiversity and humanity on a global scale. To have an impact on marine sustainability, there is an urgent need to integrate perspectives and insights from a diverse range of fields and sectors.