Transcript Inputs of CT2 to Horizon2020

CT2 Meeting 5-6 March 2013 Hamburg
NACLIM, ECOMS and Horizon2020
Detlef Quadfasel
S1
ECOMS
ECOMS BOARD MEETING, 4-5 FEB 2013, MET OFFICE, EXETER
Climate Modelling initiatives:
• Coupled global climate model – decadal, ~20km, model evaluation,
initialisation EUCP20
• Improve estimates of climate sensitivity – uncertainty, near-scale informing
long-term projections, paleoclimate, processes, aerosol, ocean heat uptake
• Laboratory to develop the next generation high resolution ESM, Convective
permitting, eddy-resolving, computational efficiency EUCP30
Climate Services initiatives:
• Downscaling and impacts – sector specific consistency with socioeconomics
• Translation Science & Users – multi-disciplinary, user engagement, impact
inverse modelling
• Data – accessibility, datasets related to impacts, climatologies, synthetic
observations and events datasets
Transatlantic activities
Transatlantic Marine and Maritime Cooperation, Brussels, 20 March 2013
Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP): coherent European approach
• Sustainable Atlantic ecosystem approach
• Sustainable marine food production (fisheries and aquaculture)
• Innovative uses and conservation of the Atlantic/marine biodiversity
(including seabed biological resources)
• Seabed Critical Raw Materials (CRM – seabed mining)
Two horizontal areas, namely Ocean Observation Technologies, and
Bridging to Society - Ocean Literacy seem suitable to complement the
proposed four focal areas.
1 – sustainable ecosystem approach
Area 1 : Sustainable Atlantic ecosystem approach
e.g. data exchanges:
- on Ocean Acidification
- on Arctic Monitoring
- other….
Objective: The implementation of the ecosystem based approach to marine
activities, and Ocean/climate interactions with the particular role of the Atlantic
Ocean circulation on marine living organisms and how they could be affected
by climate Change.
For this proposed area enhanced transatlantic cooperation could be proposed
under existing frameworks involving US and Canada (e.g. GEO, Belmont
Forum, G8 HORCS).
Possible flagship initiatives:
High Resolution Map & Transatlantic Ocean Observation System
•The research leading to these results has
received funding from the European
Union 7th Framework Programme (FP7
2007-2013), under grant agreement
n.308299
•NACLIM www.naclim.eu