Objective
THOR will establish an operational system that will monitor and forecast the development of the North Atlantic THC on decadal time scales and access its stability and the risk of a breakdown in a changing climate. Together with pre-existing data sets, ongoing observations within the project will allow precise quantitative monitoring of the Atlantic THC and its sources. This will, for the first time, allow an assessment of the strength of the Atlantic THC and its sources in a consistent manner and will provide early identification of any systematic changes in the THC that might occur. Analysis of palaeo observations covering the last millennium and millennium time scale experiments with coupled climate models will be carried out to identify the relevant key processes and feedback mechanisms between ocean, atmosphere, and cryosphere. In THOR, the combined effect of various global warming scenarios and melting of the Greenland ice sheet will also be thoroughly assessed in a coupled climate model. Through these studies and through the assimilation of systematic oceanic observations at key locations into ocean circulation models, THOR will forecast the development of the Atlantic THC and its variability until 2025, using global coupled ocean-atmosphere models. THOR will also assess induced climate implications of changes in the THC and the probability of extreme climate events with special emphasis on the European/North Atlantic region. THOR builds upon techniques, methods and models developed during several projects funded within FP5 and FP6 as well as many nationally funded projects. The project will contribute to Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), to Global Observing Systems such as to the Global Ocean Observing system (GOOS), and to the International Polar Year (IPY).
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FP7-ENV-2007-1
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20148 Hamburg
Germany
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80539 MUNCHEN
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EX1 3PB Exeter
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75252 PARIS
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5020 Bergen
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RG6 6AH Reading
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RG2 9AX Reading
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24148 Kiel
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24148 KIEL
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3731 GA De Bilt
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2100 KOBENHAVN
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FO110 TORSHAVN
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00560 Helsinki
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121 REYKJAVIK
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1797 SZ DEN HOORN TEXEL
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SW1P 4DF LONDON
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PA37 1QA OBAN
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SN2 1EU SWINDON WILTSHIRE
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5007 Bergen
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75794 PARIS
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75015 PARIS 15
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