Descripción del proyecto
El papel del forzamiento radiativo independiente del CO2 en el cambio climático
El dióxido de carbono (CO2) es el principal gas de efecto invernadero (GEI) emitido como consecuencia de las actividades antrópicas. El forzamiento radiativo ha constituido una herramienta útil para calcular el impacto climático debido a las perturbaciones inducidas por radiación. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto FOCI, financiado con fondos europeos, investigará el papel del forzamiento radiativo independiente del CO2 en el cambio climático, incluido los GEI de vida corta, los aerosoles y los cambios en el albedo. Los resultados se introducirán en modelos del sistema terrestre a escala mundial y modelos climáticos regionales. El objetivo es desarrollar un conjunto de medidas de mitigación y adaptación que ayudarán a fundamentar la futura política climática dentro y fuera de Europa.
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Indicated area b)
While overall the global warming with the causes and global processes connected to well mixed greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially CO2, and their impacts on global to continental scales are well understood with a high level of confidence, there are knowledge gaps concerning the impact of many non-CO2 radiative forcers leading to low confidence in the conclusions. This relates mainly to specific anthropogenic and natural precursor emissions of short-lived GHGs and aerosols and their precursors. These gaps and uncertainties also exist in their subsequent effects on atmospheric chemistry and climate, through direct emissions dependent on changes in e.g. agriculture production and technologies based on scenarios for future development as well as feedbacks of global warming on emissions, e.g. permafrost thaw. In addition to the atmospheric radiative forcing (gaseous or aerosols), albedo changes connected to land-use and land-cover can play a role, depending on the adaptation or mitigation measures included in different scenarios.
Thus, FOCI responds to Topic D1-01-01 area b) and its main goal is to assess the impact of key radiative forcers, where and how they arise, the processes of their impact on the climate system, to find and test an efficient implementation of these processes into global Earth System Models (ESMs) and into Regional Climate Models (RCMs), and finally to use the tools developed to investigate mitigation and/or adaptation policies incorporated in selected scenarios of future development targetted at Europe and other regions of the world. We will develop new regionally tuned scenarios based on improved emissions to assess the effects of non-CO2 forcers. Mutual interactions of the results and climate services producers and other end-users will provide feedbacks for the specific scenarios preparation and potential application to support the decision making, including climate policy.
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