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Polar Snow, Permafrost, and Inland Ice in a changing world

Descrizione del progetto

Le regioni polari in aiuto per combattere i cambiamenti climatici

Esposte direttamente agli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici, le regioni polari si stanno riscaldando rapidamente, il che ha provocato il disgelo del permafrost: i ghiacciai si stanno sciogliendo e le calotte glaciali si stanno ritirando più velocemente che mai. L’adattamento a questi cambiamenti è stato sino ad ora difficile, poiché i modelli climatici si basano su conoscenze obsolete per quanto concerne ghiacciai, lastre di ghiaccio, neve e permafrost. Il progetto SnowPI, finanziato dall’UE, mira a cambiare questa situazione fornendo dati più accurati. In particolare, il progetto svilupperà un’infrastruttura di monitoraggio per garantire un flusso di dati standardizzato e affidabile con l’obiettivo generale di fornire a scienziati e politici le informazioni necessarie per affrontare le sfide poste dai cambiamenti climatici nelle regioni polari.

Obiettivo

The effects of present-day climate change are clearly visible in the frozen parts of our planet, where ongoing glacier melt, accelerating ice sheet retreat, permafrost thaw and declining snow extent are well documented. This is especially evident in the polar regions which are warming faster than the rest of the world which will have global and regional impacts. Here, climate adaptation remains challenging, partly due to uncertainties in climate projections arising from insufficient understanding and model representation of snow, glaciers, ice sheets, and permafrost, and their interactions with the atmosphere and ocean. Snow plays a central role in modulating the cryosphere’s response to climate change. Yet, snowpack and snow processes remain poorly understood, observed, and modelled.
SnowPI will advance our understanding of, and ability to observe, study, and project changes in the frozen terrestrial surface through the lens of snow. SnowPI will achieve this by exploiting emerging technologies, latest scientific discoveries, state-of-the-art models, in-situ and remotely sensed observations alongside its novel observations and model advances. Uniquely, SnowPI will also pursue a novel approach to developing climate information in support of adaptation strategies in the polar regions. This approach follows two converging pathways to deliver climate information in support of climate adaptation that can exploit emerging scientific and model advances more swiftly than traditional approaches. The contributions from SnowPI will include 1) new knowledge and improved capabilities to model and observe changes in snow, glaciers, ice sheets, and permafrost; and 2) state-of-the-art assessments of regional and global impacts of the changing cryosphere to support climate adaptation strategies. Combined, these results benefit a wide range of actors both within and beyond the polar regions by improving their capability to respond to the impacts of climate change.

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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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NORCE RESEARCH AS
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 1 577 937,50
Costo totale
€ 1 577 937,50

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