Objective
ÉCLAIRE investigates the ways in which climate change alters the threat of air pollution on European land ecosystems including soils. Based on field observations, experimental data and models, it establishes new flux, concentration and dose-response relationships, as a basis to inform future European policies.
Starting with biosphere-atmosphere exchange measurements, ÉCLAIRE quantifies how global warming and altered precipitation will affect emissions of key European primary pollutants (NOx, NH3, VOCs), including interactions with increasing aerosol and hemispheric O3 background concentrations, modifying atmospheric transport and deposition. An ensemble of chemistry transport models will be applied to assess uncertainty in response to harmonized scenarios for climate, emissions and land-use, while high resolution studies will investigate how climate change alters local patterns of pollutant exposure and threshold exceedance.
A network of European experiments for contrasting ecosystems and climates, combined with meta-analysis of unpublished datasets, will quantify how climate change alters ecosystem vulnerability to tropospheric O3 and N deposition, including interaction with increased CO2. Combined with special topics on interactions with N form (wet/dry, NHx/NOy), aerosol-exacerbated drought stress and BVOC self-protection of O3 effects, novel threshold and dose-response approaches will be developed. These will be combined with regional atmospheric and biogeochemical models to estimate interactions and feedbacks on plant/soil carbon stocks, greenhouse gas balance and plant species change.
The new risk assessment chain to be developed will be applied at the European scale, quantifying how projected climate change will alter damage estimates. Combined with economic valuation of ecosystem services, improved integrated assessment modelling will allow a cost-benefit analysis to inform future mitigation and adaptation strategies on air pollution and climate change.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2011
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
SN2 1EU SWINDON WILTSHIRE
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22100 Lund
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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6708 PB Wageningen
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2361 Laxenburg
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0313 Oslo
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52428 Julich
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00185 Roma
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76131 Karlsruhe
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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YO10 5DD York North Yorkshire
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75007 Paris
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3721 MA Bilthoven
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3003 Bern
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405 30 Goeteborg
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9600 SARVAR
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2100 Godollo
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00560 Helsinki
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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20123 Milano
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65026 Odessa
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1180 Wien
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28040 Madrid
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28040 MADRID
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75794 Paris
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601 76 NORRKOEPING
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10000 ZAGREB
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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53113 Bonn
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8903 Birmensdorf
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100 31 Stockholm
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80539 Munchen
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142290 PUSHCHINO
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8000 Aarhus C
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6708 PB Wageningen
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1113 SOFIA
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2595 DA Den Haag
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