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Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change
Start date:2011-11-01
End date:2015-10-31
Project Acronym:EMBRACE
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:SVERIGES METEOROLOGISKA OCH HYDROLOGISKA INSTITUT | |
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Name:Madeleine |
Folkborgsvaegen NORRKOEPING SVERIGE Region: |
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| URL:http://www.smhi.se | Organization Type: |
Description
Objective:
EMBRACE brings together the leading Earth System Models (ESMs) in Europe around a common set of objectives to improve our ability to (i) simulate the Earth System and (ii) make reliable projections of future global change. EMBRACE builds on the existing European collaboration network in Earth System Modelling and will be the main European input to international efforts in this field over the coming 5 years.
The project has a number of key goals;
(i) to reduce the main, known biases in existing European ESMs,
(ii) to fully evaluate ESM simulation capabilities and improvements made in the project,
(iii) to increase the realism of, and interactions between, the physical and biogeochemical components of ESMs,
(iv) to assess the risks of abrupt or irreversible changes in key components of the Earth system, in response to the most recent greenhouse gas, aerosol and land-use scenarios proposed for the IPCC AR5.
The primary ESM biases targeted for improvement include, (i) the representation of moist atmospheric convection and links to coupled tropical variability and precipitation. (ii) equatorial and coastal ocean upwelling and their impact on the global climate system and carbon cycle, (iii) coupled processes controlling physical and biogeochemical mixing in the Southern ocean, (iv) soil hydrology and its coupling with the atmosphere and (v) the terrestrial carbon cycle, through a more realistic treatment of climate-vegetation interaction.
Improvements will be evaluated in the context of the full range of CMIP5 historical simulations, with the CMIP5 protocol forming the basis for future climate projections made to assess the risk of abrupt changes. A cross-cutting theme will be the impact of improved process description, combined with increased coupled model resolution, in reducing ESM biases and improving their reliability of future projections.
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Project Details
Start date:2011-11-01
End date:2015-10-31
Duration:48 months
Project Reference:282672
Project cost:9530409 EURO
Project Funding:6999730 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Improvement of the representation of critical climate processes in climate and Earth system models
Contract type:Large-scale integrating project
URL:http://www.embrace-project.eu
Subject index:Environmental Protection
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| Organization name:UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN | |
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Name:Thierry |
Place De L'Universite 1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:RÉGION WALLONNE BRABANT WALLON |
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Name:Almut |
Paradisgatan 117 LUND SVERIGE Region:SVERIGE SYDSVERIGE Malmöhus län |
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Name:Brooke |
Exhibition Road, South Kensington Campus LONDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON |
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Name:Julie |
Rue Michel -Ange 75794 PARIS FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Paris |
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Name:Leena |
Erik Palmenin aukio HELSINKI SUOMI/FINLAND Region:MANNER-SUOMI UUSIMAA |
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Name:Stefan |
Shinfield Park READING UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) BERKSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE Berkshire |
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Hofgartenstrasse MUENCHEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN München, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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EARLHAM ROAD NORWICH UNITED KINGDOM Region:EAST ANGLIA Norfolk |
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Wilhelminalaan 201 DE BILT NEDERLAND Region:WEST-NEDERLAND UTRECHT |
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FitzRoy Road EXETER UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH WEST (UK) CORNWALL, DEVON Devon |
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Polaris House, North Star Avenue SWINDON WILTSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM Region: |
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Raemistrasse ZUERICH SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Region:ZÜRICH |
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Linder Hoehe KOELN DEUTSCHLAND Region:NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN KÖLN Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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