Climate Impacts of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Project description

A closer look at AMOC’s impact for Europe

Climate change – the number one issue facing humanity – is influenced by our oceans. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which is the zonally integrated component of surface and deep currents in the Atlantic Ocean, exerts significant influences. The EU-funded CliMOC project will study the role and implications of the AMOC on climate changes and impacts for Europe. Specifically, the project will propose a hierarchy of climate model simulations to separate the role of AMOC from other processes. It will also implement a slab-ocean model component in the EC-Earth global climate model. This will allow the project to run a slab-ocean EC-Earth simulation using the ocean heat fluxes from a fully coupled EC-Earth simulation.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-RI - RI – Reintegration panel

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Coordinator

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Net EU contribution

€ 183 473,28

Address

Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24
10129 Torino
Italy

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Non-EU contribution

€ 0,00

Region

Nord-Ovest › Piemonte › Torino