Description du projet
La plateforme roumaine aéroportée de recherche sur la microphysique des nuages atteint de nouveaux sommets
Les aérosols atmosphériques – particules liquides et solides en suspension dans l’atmosphère – jouent un rôle essentiel dans la détermination du climat de la Terre. Qu’ils soient d’origine naturelle ou humaine, ils ont un impact sur la formation, les propriétés et les cycles de vie des nuages. La caractérisation de ces interactions est importante pour évaluer et prévoir l’impact des activités humaines sur le changement climatique. L’Institut national de recherche aérospatiale «Elie Carafoli» (INCAS) de Bucarest est le seul détenteur d’une plateforme de recherche aéroportée sur les nuages en Europe orientale, ce qui lui confère une position unique pour étudier les interactions entre les aérosols et les nuages. Le projet BRACE-MY, financé par l’UE, renforcera les capacités et la reconnaissance de l’INCAS par le biais d’une action de jumelage, en fournissant des compétences et des équipements pour obtenir, traiter et interpréter des données afin d’améliorer les futures projections climatiques.
Objectif
As the only airborne cloud research platform holder in Eastern Europe, INCAS is in the perfect position to be a well-known R&D organisation that obtain urgently needed data sets, process and interpret them in order to improve future climate projections. However, to date, a lack of presenting these capabilities has left INCAS too little known in the cloud research community and therefore, underutilized research partner with excellent and very useful facilities. Through the BRACE-MY project, INCAS team will obtain the required skills and an additional equipment needed to complement their research capabilities with state-of-the art aerosol sampling techniques. The foreseen research, conducted in conjunction with strong twinning activities will transfer the skills required for INCAS to perform aerosol-cloud interaction research and elevate its reputation to that of a leader in the cloud and aerosol community. This will be achieved by using a “learning by doing” approach to transfer the best practices for conducting research, disseminating results and educating young scientists from the world-class project partners to INCAS. In particular, this will include: the development of an ice nucleating particle counter based on a state-of-the-art aerosol sampling system provided by a project partner, conducting research flights, publishing and presenting research results within internationally recognized platforms, organizing and lecturing at summer schools designed for upcoming researcher in the field and gaining the managerial skills required to become a recognized partner for aerosol and cloud microphysics research. The project partners have been selected to ensure that all of the objectives are guided by leaders in the field of aerosol and cloud research and acting as a research provider. Therefore, BRACE-MY will give INCAS, a research institute in a “widening country”, the opportunity to elevate itself to an internationally recognized cloud and aerosol research institute.
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061126 Bucuresti
Roumanie