Objective The climate of Northwest Europe is anomalously warm for its latitude and this warmth is maintained by a variety of processes and factors in the Nordic Seas and the Arctic. Possible changes include cooling which may occur both rapid and radical. Arctic warming over the last 50 years was three times stronger than the global increase of surface temperatures. ASOF-N, one part of the ASOF cluster, aims at understanding the controlling processes of climate change in the high latitude North Atlantic. To improve and validate models with a predictive power needed for the assessment of the socio-economic consequences of the potential changes which are already obvious in the Arctic, time series of oceanic parameters are required over time scales of decades. ASOF-N aims to advance the installation of a suitable cost effective component of a global ocean observation system in choke points of the oceanic circulation. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Programme(s) FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.4.-2. - Key action Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG Address Troplowitzstrasse 7 22529 Hamburg Germany See on map EU contribution No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH Finland EU contribution € 0,00 Address 3a,lyypekinkuja 3a 00931 Helsinki See on map Other funding No data INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address Nordnesgaten 50 Bergen See on map Other funding No data INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Powstancow warszawy 55 81 712 Sopot See on map Other funding No data NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE OF THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hjalmar johansens g. 14 9296 Tromsoe See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS VI France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Place jussieu 4 75252 Paris See on map Other funding No data
